Random LTL Rants (all are welcomed)

This sounds just like some of the OTR wonder boys that arrive at our Hub with Full LTL loads from the west/east coast. Upon arrival, they go to the office and are given specific instructions. Drive STRAIGHT ahead 1/8 of a mile you will see the dock doors in front of you. stop on the pad and flag down one of our yard jockeys and they will cut the seal, spot your trailer or give you an assigned door. Now how can someone poosibly screw this up? well let the games begin! Drivers making u-turns heading back out on the road, drivers stopping every 5o ft. asking one of our employee's "Where do i go"? LOL you can see the docks right in front of you.

 

A lot of the contractors who pull our freight are a bunch of ########.onlyy one of them is actually nice.

Well this isn't a rant but I changed the wheels finally on the Ram. Looks a lot better with the new ones. Once I get the chance I'll upload a pic. Now its time to work on the firebird.

 

RANT.....RANT....RANT,RANT,RANT......., I"m Ranting.

 

There seems to be very little camraderie between otr drivers and us LTL guys. Most other ltl guys will wave, but most otr drivers wont

 

Almost every truck I passed waved back at me.

 

Ill usually wave the first two times i see another ltl driver on my route but sometimes i see the same drivers 10+ times a day in different parts if the city , my arm gets tired lol

 

When I was on city peddle all the LTL guys would wave. I remember I became friends with a ABF guy and one day we were walking out of the customer and a OTR guy was asking a question about the dock. We told him the best way to,back up since it was a tight area, and his response was we don't know what we are doing because we drive day cabs and aren't real truckers... The ABF said something back to him as we walked away. Pulled out of the doors and watched the OTR guy attempt to back in. Was doing so for over 20 min... Finally we went to spot and after he got it in the ABF guy said maybe next time you will listen when us "fake truckers" try to help you real drivers with tips. Lol

to to be honest I only met a few OTR guys who were decent, most just had attitude problems and not very personal.

 

Here's my new wheels on the Ram. They are from a SRT-10 ram

 

I just throw my hands up and/or give a dirty stare . Waving beyond 2 times is gay lol

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OTR guys are fixated on the trailer/GPS/Bluetooth/Dispatch/Trailer/plotting next direction/trailer/baby mama drama/ Pets on lap/ Trailer /Cb radio and will never notice another driver waving on surace streets.

The worst OTR drivers..... The lazy, refuse to leave the cab and have the engine running. They ask for Procedures/ directions and still have to repeat it 6 times. Nothing is more annoying then trying to hear/talk over a running diesel big rig. Lately this is where i get a chance to wave to a OTR driver. " yes the weather is great" and continue my way