Should A New Driver Allow No APU/INVERTER to be a Deal Breaker?

Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by bigounce, Dec 20, 2015.

  1. rockstar_nj

    rockstar_nj Medium Load Member

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    There's dumb, and then there's us. We're a whole new level of stupid. 99% of our job is literally doing what everyone else does to get to work. Pulling a trailer is pulling a trailer, no matter what the size, it's the same common sense... yet every day, tons of us manage to get it wrong. And when these people aren't on the road, they're blocking up traffic in the truck stop doing their impression of a confused 90 year old driver who forgot where he is and where he's going.

    14 year olds on farms learn how to pull long trailers and use heavy trucks, what's our excuse?
     
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    ZhenyaP1991 Medium Load Member

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    Yeah most of us are probably dumb, and uneducated, but hell we get paid better than majority of people. Personally, everytime i seat behind a wheel, i often think to myself. What other job will make me not wanting to go to sleep, cause I am too excited for what next day has to offer.
     
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    Pintlehook Road Train Member

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    Isn't New Century out of business?
     
  4. Moose1958

    Moose1958 Road Train Member

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    I rest my case! I still can't figure out what the heck that driver was doing on that hill!
     
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    HalpinUout Road Train Member

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    Stuck on stupid
     
  6. Jerry12

    Jerry12 Heavy Load Member

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    No Bunk Heater; Yes, its a deal breaker. Driver is not allowed to idle truck in winter...screw the Carrier.
     
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    Jerry12 Heavy Load Member

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    The no idle States in the Winter months the driver should just suck it up...no, no no...screw the Carrier. chose someone else.
     
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  8. Jerry12

    Jerry12 Heavy Load Member

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    NO idle States during the Winter months...stick it to the driver. (try thinking of something constructive, enable the new driver, where he'll be happier...less tickets, better health n living conditions...Carriers need to be focused to the driver. i.e. Chose a different Carrier)
     
  9. americanmadetrucker

    americanmadetrucker Logistical Engineer

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    Wow!
     
  10. joseph1135

    joseph1135 Papa Murphy

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    For well over a year now...
     
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