What important skills of truck driving did you learn after your first year of trucking?

Company: New guy ran 5000 miles this week solo, He's a keeper! (Don't ask, don't tell)

 

" The old two log book-paper log days."

 

First if a truckdriver is talking he's probably lieing about something. Most of them refering to paperlog books never ran one. In my opinion Elogs is one of the best things that has happened to our industry in years, And I have been driving since the 80's ( close enough). And sometimes it gets in my way, so does life, get over it.

If you have a legitmate question and posting ignor's or makes fun of it, then there the fools no you, if youy dont know ask.

I learn new stuff all the time,I like watch other drivers approach difficult situations, so I can (hopefully) learn from them, I don't know maybe I already knew it and forgot, in any case I learn or relearn things on a regualr basis.

If I driver as so much time on his hands as to sit and make fun of other drivers, he's not working hard enough.

I have a question, is there an easy way to slide tandem's in icy/snowy slick weather. Up at G&P in Corrine a coupe of days ago, I hooked to a preload, and for the life of me could not get them to sldie upo to the 40' mark, So I pulled it down I15 to the rest area (wetter no snow) and slide them there. Yea even after years out here there is still something somewhere, looking to cause you grief.

As far as dispositions of other drivers, I have difficulty comtrolling my own , no time to worry about the others playing the fool around me.

Happy Trails to all Keep safe.

Hey Chinatown, unloaded in your area earlier this week near Lamb and Nellis.

 

Number 11.

In difficult backing situations, watch others. You might get ideas on what to do. I've been driving for 8 years and I actually watched a rookie back into a dock in a way that I would have never thought of. It was how he set up for it, I was like hmmmm. Never thought of that.

 

I think that this is more a matter of preference rather than being inherently wise or foolish. My trainer was an expert trucker, and he would go ape poop if you were his student in a truck governed at 68, and you did not pass a truck going 66 or 67.

 

Like O. Henry's post, this is a matter of preference. My expert trainer when I started at Covenant would go ape poop if i tapped on the brakes for 30 seconds to let someone pass. He said "if they cannot go fast enough to pass you, they shouldn't have gotten in the hammer lane to try to pass you."

 

Horrible trainer.

 

That's just your opinion.

I suspect that my trainer has retired by now. But he was held in very high esteem at Covenant when I worked there.

 

First year learning…
If you can’t dodge it, ram it!
If you don’t look above your brim you’ll hit your head. (Steel overhang on back of trailer)

 

This is kind of off topic because I knew this on my first day of trucking, but i cannot resist.

I will lay my shower bag down on the bench seats in the truck stop showers because i have to lay the bag somewhere. However, I never touch the bench seats in truckstop showers because I think it's likely other drivers sit their bare buttocks on them.