New guy advice from a 2.5 year rookie.

Less time than that. I usually had to make a plan fast while the dispatcher is in the phone waiting for a answer.

It's brutal when math meets jersey gridlock.

 

Those things are smaller than a bat. But are they FAST. clock em.

But boy howdy if you are slow and don't see a proper louisville slugger coming... then I cannot help you. Sweet dreams know what i mean?

 

Sluggers make such a satisfying sound I think...

 

I use the sack of taters when they fall straight down analogy, that means they are no longer a active threat. Or present with us in this world or the next. Move on to the next bad guy if any and scan for more if none.

What I hate is age. Makes you old and slow. So... experience and treachery against youth and pure speed and power.

I don't want this thread to derail. There is too much very good information for our tender newbies to consider.

 

There are obviously multiple definitions of trip plan, because I don't bother planning a trip I have not accepted, and if I have accepted it, he has his answer already.

 

Grea

Great advice man. Wish I had seen some of this on day one when I started.

 

I can't retort without it sounding like a threat. And I'm not interested in that.

Suffice it to say, however - I know what I'm capable of; I know what I'm willing to do to survive.

We'll be leaving that right there.

Now 1) Get that toaster oven & 2) Shut up stupid.

 

or the internet

 

@Gunner75 next month will be 30 yrs ago I started into the trucking industry, spent my whole childhood around trucks and equipment. You cover a lot of good points. One of my pet peeves no matter what vehicle I'm driving is turn signals. Not using them makes me want to shake that person till their toenails fall off! Being out on the open road has slowly over time gotten worse on all levels. You really got to love the beach bums that think their job is a paid vacation, and dress like they have no pride. Last time I came in from Alabama I stopped at the Loves on I-75 just below Lexington, KY. Walked out of the squirter and through the door comes some idiot that looked like Medusa wearing a pair on Long johns and a ragged pair of gym shorts over top of them, walked through the store with his parrot headset talking and acting like he was the only one in there! Some out here are shameless turds. Be safe out there.

 

Nice.

And you wonder why I get less social in them places over the years. Very hard to find a proper trucker in the old style these days.