Tip for new drivers

Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by GasHauler, Sep 1, 2015.

  1. Speedwagon98

    Speedwagon98 Bobtail Member

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    Nobody cares about their vehicles these days it seems. I'm always seeing passenger cars with blow outs on the highway during the summer heat. All they have to do is keep the tires properly inflated, but that is too much work to put into it.
     
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  3. GasHauler

    GasHauler Master FMCSA Interpreter

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    It's obvious to anyone with any sense at all knows that these reality shows on TV are no where close to real life. I just hope that a new driver that is going to school and is full of questions knows that and realizes that any tips or examples on this trucking show should never be taken as standard procedures and checked out. Regardless of blame the responsibility always comes back to the driver. My point was that any new driver should always seek sound advice and never use lousy examples like on that show. This shows tries to pass on how tough it is to drive and any driver that drivers the Ice Roads is a top notch driver. Many people believe this and shouldn't.
     
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  4. TripleSix

    TripleSix God of Roads

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    Worse thing about Art is he's an old f ck. The definitive supertrucker. Been driving for years, thinks he's hot stuff and still scraping the bottom of the barrel. He should be around the same age as Alex, but not even in the same playing field.

    Here's a tip for you new drivers: if you are signing on with a Werner, Swift, Schneider, Prime, England...any one of those training companies to ride with a trainer, and you meet an "experienced" driver (he wont have to ride with a trainer...he will just be issued a truck after the orientation circus has ended), that voluntarily gave you his employment history, ASK YOURSELF, "If this guy is all that, and has that much experience, and has pulled every load known to man, why is he going through orientation at a training company? It's like someone telling you that he got cut from a pro team, but he's signing up to play high school ball.

    Now of course, I'm not talking about the guy that had experience but was off road for a few years, he will have ride with a trainer. I'm not talking about that driver that gives you the road test during orientation. You're not gonna be able to rub elbows with that guy for years. Look around your orientation class. No, not that 3rd generation, born in a truck kid thats the youngest in the class. He will have better abilities than the rest of you starting out, but he too will have to ride with a trainer. No, not the fat gamer. Not that guy from the hood who's been in and out of jail, and is finally trying to change his circumstances. Not the village idiot (the thickheaded guy that needs his hand held and asks the same question that he asked yesterday and will ask tomorrow). Him! The moron going through orientation, yet is talking down to the human resources people. Every time they tell him how they want to do things at this company, he comes back to tell them how they did things at his last gig. That's the guy. He's going to come after you. He wants a disciple.

    Because farmboy and homeboy both hate him. Gamer is into his game (actually a protection in this case), and Supertrucker doesn't like the village idiot. So, you're left.

    True, but farmboy and homeboy have already told him that if they could figure out how they can get away with it, they'd whip his arse.
     
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