Let’s argue about MPG, Wages, etc
- Thread starter Electric Chicken
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Yep they suck. It's ugly rides like shit. Is unreliable of and it's a 13 letter shit spreader.
Electric Chicken
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I thought it rode nice. It never left me stranded, but if constantly had problems.
One time it wouldn't stop beeping at me for my entire shift. And I mean a high pitched beep beep beep beep beep beep beep for 12 hours straight.
I know that beep. Got stuck driving 48 MPH for 200 miles. I'm in one right now. It's riding very rough. I'm used to EXHD trucks. The old 1997 Eagle 9400i beats this thing every day of the week. This one has left me stranded for 5 hours. Had emissions issues. Pulled speed sensor and hit 1000 rpm. It beeped and beeped and for a change it beeped. I started to here the selonid tick. Phew boy headin down this mountin passing all the megas. Empty running at night. Time to make some time !!!
Honestly it just depends on that day's unique circumstances. If im meeting a crane at 7 am to deliver, does it really matter if I get parked up at 4 pm or 330 pm the day before? Im not going to get unloaded a minute sooner so why not back out of it some and enjoy a few extra dollars saved?
On the other hand, if bumping it up can mean I'll get unloaded this afternoon vs tomorrow morning I'll spend the extra bucks in fuel.
Electric Chicken
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Kinda how it is here. It's shift work so finishing at 9 vs 9:30 doesn't matter.
Spyder were you on TTR I swear I've seen your name before on TTR.
mndriver
curmudgeon extraordinare
Sure it matters. Even more so now on ELD's.
Where as before we'd just redraw lines later in the week to give us more time on paper, now were forced to have it drawn as we do it.
So being wasteful with our time now will hurt you on recap.
Electric Chicken
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Where we're at it makes no difference. Log off Friday morning. Come back Sunday night. Or whatever your shift is. Some guys only work 4 days.
Fageol
Old acid hauler but not too caustic
It seems like the length of an OTR tractor would be more a function of weight and length laws than some arbitrary limit. The OTR tractors in Alaska are a lot longer than that JB Hunt rig which, IMHO looks crappy but might be ideal for its intended use. Ultimately appearance will be dictated by economics and laws -- although the laws might well be made by those who know nothing about their primary or secondary effects.
BTW my old dispatcher, Red Hayes, at Southern Tank Lines (too bad I have no pics of those beautiful rigs) would have described that color as "s**t-muckle brown." To Red, anything with even a hint of off-white was generally described by that adjectival phrase.
I saw a criticism of running 5s as I did for CF in the 1960s and 1970s. In those days we were limited to 10 hours driving time. So running 5s made sense. A team could move for 20 out of 24 hours. And eating, fueling, stopping at scales, doing paperwork at ports of entry (I'm talking about the olden days here), and like stuff occupied the other 4 hours. One never ran out of hours if you were running team. There was no insane 34-hour reset in those years. This brings me to some personal problems I've seen here.
First, assuming one could never run out of hours, it's assumed that he ("he" used in the OED sense lest I offend any sensitive drivers of other genders) would never get time off. Taking time off is a personal choice. Ultimately one could get sick to do get time off, even if the sickness was "sick of work." There likely has been an administrative or judicial decision about the necessity of time off work. I seem to recall that there are some studies in which unit productivity has increased because of work-time limitations. The 34-hour reset indicates some sort of real or supposed need for time off for safety reasons although a cynic like myself might reason that the 34-hour or any arbitrary rule is to increase the numbers of bureaucrats and necessitate increasing paper production.
Second, that it takes one 5 hours to get to sleep in a rig is a personal problem. Some are suited to drive team or whatever subject to each of their limitations, some aren't. When this country turns even more socialist and some son of Max Weber tells you that you will drive a truck "for the greater good" I'm guessing such personal wants or limitations will be eliminated by "the man."
Third, Hannity was criticized. Who cares what Hannity; that smug, ugly left-wing, apparently IYI, female; Limbaugh; or any of the others say? Fundamentally they're all selling one or another product or service be it soap or privacy protection. If one or another stirs up trouble in your brain or soul, the objective isn't to enlighten (although enlightenment might be claimed), you're just being lined up for their next episode that you "need" to see or hear so that they can advertise for more soap, privacy protection, or whatever. They want you as addicted to their yak as much as Marlboro wants you to continue smoking its cigarettes. In the old days, truckers were a creative lot who were more influenced by each other than by some left or right blabbermouth. Assuming that creative tradition continues, I'm guessing that substitutes are present or on the drawing board.
Merry Christmas!
BlackBart
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I smoke, but not them marlboros. Dunno how they gits the kinda followin they got
mndriver
curmudgeon extraordinare
BlackBart
Well-Known Member
Hmmm.....
Ain’t never saw no fancy marketing for my brand. Now I feel slighted, dammit...
Fageol
Old acid hauler but not too caustic
Long ago heard (before "I heard" became the most famous internet source of facts and truth) that in the testimony that resulted in verdicts against "Big Tobacco," that the chemists and shrinks employed by Big Tobacco figured out an optimum amount of nicotine or other stuff to put into their brands of cigarettes to make them the most addictive. It was all about repeat customers, i. e. profits. Having had not much interest in that factoid, I have to admit that I didn't run it to ground so my impression of an impression might be bogus.
That said, a self-admitted Trump-disliking liberal, Matt Tiabbi, wrote a recent book, "Hate Inc." about the current BS that the media is pulling on the American public. At the urging of a genius friend in Kiev, Ukraine, I read the first 247 pages of that book before I thought it repetitious. One of the sections or part of a section (I returned the book to the library a couple of weeks ago so can't be specific) dealt with the attempt -- it appears to be successful -- of those who control print, radio, and TV media to create an addiction similar to what I have heard (that phrase again) about cigarettes.
Most of us have heard the old expression about newspapers, "If it bleeds, it leads." Something shocking, controversial, tragic, etc. will keep folks coming back. Plain vanilla renditions of facts, even if they have profound implications are not good at making or keeping readers, listeners, and watchers.
Tiabbi states or implies what I have done for years. Read, hear, or watch none of the BS that you see in the media. It's better for your sanity.
r3gulator3
IMA KEEP IT REDNECK
Volvo.
That's just one of the dozens of variable that come into play. Every operation is different. I can count in one hand how many times I had to worry about the 70 hour rule this year.
Duck
Sarcastic remark goes here
If you ever pass out drunk in my presence, you're going to wake up with "I love Volvo trucks" written on your forehead in permanent marker.
r3gulator3
IMA KEEP IT REDNECK
Good luck with that!If you ever pass out drunk in my presence, you're going to wake up with "I love Volvo trucks" written on your forehead in permanent marker.
Electric Chicken
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Yeah neither it nor the 14 have been a problem for me since I learned almost all of my stops. I can tell in advance whether I can do one more, or not. With few exceptions cutting it close.
I usually work about 50-58 hours these days.
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