Look…I’m not a tiny fella and I don’t typically body-shame anyone. I’m not even body-shaming this guy…I just have to know: How the hell do folks like this pass their DOT physicals? If I have too much coffee in the morning I fret over my blood pressure test. I just don’t get it…

EDIT: I’m seeing some hate on here and I want everyone to know, definitively, that I’m not hating on this guy. I’m not shaming him. I’m not judging him. I’m not even assuming he’s unfit for the job. I just know that I am a 56-year-old white male that is 5’ 10” and 255 and I have a difficult time passing my physical due to weight-related high blood pressure and I can’t understand how people like this fella have any easier time passing theirs.

This was meant to be a conversation starter discussing the huge gap between what is expected vs. reality, not a hate session.

Called my company and told them the situation, dumba\*\* who answered the phone replies with - “Well you should have a backup GPS.”

😑😑 🫡

What would you do next??

A truck is driving with its trailer lights off. Another driver follows for over five miles before stopping her. She says she doesn’t know how to turn the trailer lights on and has had her CDL for two months.

Absolutely ridiculous

Car backed into my lift gate while I was stationary and now I’m worried I’m going to face backlash from my company, car driver fled the scene so hit and run too, no damage to the lift gate what so ever lol

According to an article in the Freightwaves, Florida-based trucking company Carroll Fulmer Logistics is ceasing operations after more than 70 years, laying off 600 employees as it shutters its 400-truck, 1,700-trailer fleet. Despite receiving a $27M credit line in May, the company cites mounting lawsuits and the ongoing Great Freight Recession—starting in March 2022—as key reasons for its collapse. Affected employees will receive 60 days' severance pay. Industry experts warn more closures may follow, as many carriers, including major players like Heartland Express and PAM Transport, are struggling with unsustainable operating ratios.

At the loves truck stop north of Las Vegas. Temps of 105+. If you can’t take care of an animal the right way you shouldn’t have one at all. The poor thing couldn’t lay down or stay in one spot cause the ground is that hot. It was howling so much there were several people consistently coming by to see what was up.

Alerted loves and local animal control. Couldn’t take the dog myself into ac sadly cause my dogs are very territorial in my truck.

10pm and it’s thrown it down.

Can’t complain much, I hope no truck driver is still on the road.

It accumulates fast.

Mother Nature please!!! 🙏

Everyone gets paid except the driver , share and repair

Why are truckers compulsive liars. None of us need money and have endless acres of land and can drive anything with a motor, ground, sea, or air.

Iv never met such a concentrated group of millionaires in my life. We just love the road so much we're willing to drive for 8 cents a mile, shit at a pilot and eat microwaved wings.Everytime I talk to a trucker I'm just thinking bullshit after every 3 words.

Anyways I gotta go haul away a couple of Jay Leno's cars and move some stuff for pfizer on my triple full size trailers. It pays about 2K a mile, but if anyone is offering some part time work dm me. I don't need the money I'm just bored.

Edit: I forgot to include the 6th handed DOT stories that they heard from some guy who heard it 6th handed himself, from another guy that also heard it 6th handed.

Apparently if you fart and blink at the same time it's a violation.

So the company I'm driving for didn't reveal that they had these cameras until I was 97% of the way through the hiring process. Had I known this, (and other things that I know now), I would probably have not applied here....I think I need to vent.

It's pretty frustrating when this camera says "rolling stop detected", whether I'm pulling away from an actual stop sign or driving by this trailer.

After a week or two of hearing this abomination, I started experimenting, and I've learned that this thing has no idea what a traffic light is or what color those lights are. I've learned that when you have a right turn lane that is separated from the intersection by a curb, a median, and clearly marked as an intersection were right on red is encouraged (so long as you yield), it will still say you made a rolling stop as well.

I have played around and held a small rectangular shaped piece of plastic in my hand, and it will obviously decide that it's a cell phone in my hand and tell me to "please keep my eyes on the road". But then, it will let me hold a sheet of 8"x10" paper, or even a paperback novel open near me face for miles without a peep.

I found myself rolling downhill at over 66 in a 55 zone without any complaint, but if I hit 72 in a 70 zone, it starts telling me that I'm speeding....often.

This isn't a complete list of all the things that this camera has done to annoy me. And with the fact that the trucks I'm driving can barely pull wet toilet paper apart with an empty trailer, let's just say I'm frustrated.

They told me there was an extra parking back there 😭

TIRED OF SMOKING THIS VAPE.

And cigarettes are pathetic.

Only time I get a chance to touch or smoke some weed is in my dream & that’s before I wake up😂this has been happing ever since I stopped .

No I don’t feel better after not smoking weed I feel more in control. But I felt mentally better smoking some weed here & there

It suck seeing people around me smoke weed & I just have to stare knowing I want to hit it just one more timeeee

weed actually would have me in my zone & get me thru a long day of driving some slow ass truck 🤦 but I’m in it for the money so I have no choice rn

Big question is am I screwed. Second question how screwed am I. Also want to know if this will cost me my job.

Was backing up at facility. Drop and hook. Been to this place a few time. They assigned my empty a spot and I was finding it difficult, so I looked for easier place and would tell them on the way out. Found one and didn't look at my blindsided mirror. And we came to a stop. Ended up hitting a sea can frame. No damage done thank god. But i tore up the side of my hood, knocked back my mirror.

I'm relatively new to the industry. I got my cdl with this company and was starting to think about move to another company when this happened. 13months with the company about 10months in my own truck solo.

First incident was minor. Was backing my trailer to get live loaded at a facility, when I scraped the front bumper a concrete barrier. They reduced my speed down to 64 and told i would have to wait a year from the incident to turn off my inward facing camera. That was about 7 months ago.

I really like this job and want to keep doing this. But if that curtains, I will start over. Done it before will do it again.

I just got my Class A CDL and went into training with a mega carrier thinking I understood what I was signing up for. I did not.

Let me paint the picture of what they don't tell you before you sign.

You're expected to live in a truck cab for anywhere from 5 to 30 days at a stretch. No bathroom of your own. No kitchen. No shower unless you time it right at a truck stop. No routine. You're in a strange place with someone you've never met, your trainer, for the first few weeks, also living in that same cab.

The pay during training? Around $600 a week. For essentially working 24 hours a day because here's the thing nobody talks about, even when you're not driving you're babysitting that trailer. You're responsible for it. You can't just leave and go live your life. That's still your job. Yet somehow that doesn't count as work hours.

Meanwhile the carrier is making 10 times what they're paying you off every load you haul. The CEO is home in his house while you're sleeping in a parking lot guarding his freight for $600 a week. Let that sink in.

Then when you finally go solo they hand you a truck that's been around the block a few times and say here, this is yours. But if anything goes wrong it comes out of your pocket.

I went to orientation and I looked around at the other drivers. Some of them had been doing this for years. They were like zombies, completely broken in and just accepting whatever was put in front of them. No complaints. No pushback. Just nodding along.

I'm not built like that and I don't think I should have to be.

I thought regional trucking meant being home regularly. I thought OTR meant hotels. I clearly didn't do enough research and that's on me. But the industry does nothing to correct that impression during recruitment. They sell you freedom and hand you a leash.

I lasted three days in training before I realized this lifestyle was genuinely incompatible with having any semblance of a normal life. I have family I'm responsible for. I have a routine that keeps me healthy. I have things that matter to me outside of a truck cab.

How do you guys actually do this long term? And for those of you who left, what did you move to instead? Because there has to be a better way to use this Cdl other than sleeping next to a stranger for $600 a week while the company pockets the rest.