Most Important Questions From New Drivers Threads

oh boy we got a bunch of WOW guys on here.....




American Trucker

 

My question is how does the dispatcher manage to get you home and do you leave a car at a terminal - how does that work? Thanks for your reply.

 

All the OTR companies I've worked for have let me take the truck home. The most I've had to do was get a ride to the bus station to go get the truck from wherever the last driver left it. On hometime I have a few places around here that let me drop the trailer so I can park the tractor in my driveway. I don't like letting it out of my sight.

 

Plan on getting rid of your auto if you can the insurance is a big waste of money and make sure you can take your truck home. Most companies will have you drop the trailer at a yard then you can bobtail home.

 

You can drop your auto insurance but it'll just cost you more to restart it. They tack on extra charges for not having coverage in while. Shop around and find a better insurance company. I've got mine through farmers and 2 cars and a motorcycle cost me like $200 for 6 months, more or less. It's cheaper because I have them all on one policy and I don't drive any of them to work if at all.

 

Yes many insurance companies start you out as BRAND NEW regardless of how many years you have had car insurance if you drop coverage for a period of time.

Have a driver that sold everything and travelled for 2 years came back to USA and bought a car , INSURANCE was out of this world.

Agent told him he would have been better off buying an old clunker and put the min $ of insurance on it for the 2 years he was gone.

 

as a person starting out in this type of work werner is a good place to start you have to have to be carfull just dont sign into a contract. when you have 6months to a year under your belt then find a company you think you would be happy with. good luck to you and happy hullin take care
NICFIT007

 

I was just thinking about that last night and I realized that the first big truck with a 53 footer that I drove was actually a Werner truck. He had gone down a road that had a sharp turn at the end that you couldn't see around till you made the turn and it had RR tracks sticking up in the air in the corner in such a way that it made it near impossible to back out of the dead end. He called a tow truck and I got the call. He told me what the problem was and I jumped in the truck, backed it out, and got it turned around facing out. He was happy to be back on his way and I was happy with easy money, though I only charged him the base cost of showing up since I didn't have to use my truck to get him out.

 

Hey now AT - I got a level 80 mage that rawks, looking forward to relaxing with my laptop and keeping in touch with friends....LOL no really it just relaxes me a lot. And I am on the long side of 40.......

Actually that is a question I have, how is WIFI access on the road? Do most truck stops have free wireless? I can tether with my pdanet app on my Droid.

Good trucking all....

John/Mrktwiz

 

very few are free but all the big ones have it, you just have to pay for it.....most of the time its pretty slow. But right now where I am this is crazy fast!


as far as WOW goes what ever floats your boat drivah! lol jk. I never did get the WOW thing, one of my freinds tried to get me into it.....not my thing I guess lol




American Trucker