where do truckers hang out online/chat groups/communities?

Don't forget your banking account details, social security number and mothers maiden name.

 

Man I always forget to have that stuff handy . Those poor guys have to wait on the phone forever for me to dig that stuff up and they are way on the other side of the planet. And we think we have it tough when we have to wait on lumpers

 

Those guys don't count. Most of us are out working.

 

I like to put them on hold...the hold channel with the Gregorian Chant for music mixed in with the usual "your call is important to us, please stay on the line" bs.
I've never had one stay on the line more than ten minutes.

 

This forum skews towards the older demographic, which isn't necessarily a bad thing. Good place with lots of great and niche info, just stay away from the negativety of some of the posters on here.

Reddit Truckers subreddit is a younger crowd and has a decent size international presence on it as well (not only English speaking countries, seen Scandanavian truckers and German truckers post on there in English as well).

Trucking Truth Forums is a pretty weird place. The moderators are mostly drivers that have been at Megas such as Swift and Prime for decades of their life. Which, nothing wrong with that, but what is wrong with that is that they always advise to STAY with those companies for years on end and act like getting experience through a Mega company is the only way. They act like the Megas can do no wrong. Any criticism of any Mega results in an automatic and a SWIFT (pun intended) ban lol. I'm pretty sure half the mods over there train for whatever Mega they work for. I know one of the female moderators over there trains for Prime, she shills out her YouTube videos on those forums lol. I'm not sure whether or not the site is actually owned by Mega companies, or if the mods over there are just raking in the dough by getting referral bonuses by constantly advertising for whatever Mega each individual mod works for. It's just a weird place lol.

I think a lot of company drivers get on group chats on various social media platforms.

I would stay away from YouTube. A lot of swindlers on that platform peddling whatever it is they're trying to sell to you. Some can be good though. Just proceed with caution I guess.

There's an LTL forum too that charges you money to use to it. I can't remember the name of it now but I came across it a long time ago. I can't imagine why anybody would actually pay to use an internet forum in the year of 2022, but to each their own. They actually did have some decent info on there though now that I think about it, if I remember right you got something like 10 free clicks or something before you had to start paying to use the forum.

Overall I would say this forum and Reddit Truckers are probably the best. You can probably create group chats/group telephone calls easy enough if you start meeting people in your company as well.

 

Wear?

 

Lunch counter? You mean McDonald's or Arby's?

 

I'll take, "Things I didn't need to see" for $1000, Alex.

 

Yeah, lack of proofreading and unwillingness to edit. I honestly appreciate you pointing it out, that sorta screw up really grinds my gears! I'm just a dumb driver...

 

We have a culture here of not pointing out grammatical errors of any kind. As long as you understood what the driver was trying to say, its normal here to just ignore it.

I mostly agree with this policy

Mixing up then and than... that makes me crazy for some reason but I never say anything