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If you could find offhighway work (you can pull a wrench, or levers, or hold a steering wheel), you could get some really good pay logging. They'd love a guy like you in a camp. Especially non-drinking.

I assume there are similar operations to here in South East Alaska, and Washington? Fly or boat in, camp is on a barge, everything else is helo'd or barged in.
 
Provience said:
Good for the company means good for the employee.

Fire shit employees, fire as many marginal ones as you can. Don't keep dead stock hanging around.
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Are you fourteen?

Anything that makes it easy for middle management to justify being capricious is probably bad.

Data haystacks built from data that was never intended to be high quality or actionable on its own (i.e. like you get from cameras and most raw analytics shit) fall solidly into that category are bad to have around in general because it's tempting to use them for shit you shouldn't be.
 
arse_sidewards said:
Are you fourteen?

Anything that makes it easy for middle management to be capricious is probably bad.

Data haystacks built from data that was never intended to be high quality or actionable on its own (i.e. like you get from cameras and most raw analytics shit) fall solidly into that category are bad to have around in general because it's tempting to use them for shit you shouldn't be.
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Mega wheel holding Corp doesn't need the shit, save every penny.

People that don't like it and can hold a wheel should be encouraged to find the smaller outfits and also buy their own rig and go independent.

Good for competition, get the .gov out of the elog business and make independents great again
 
DRTDEVL said:
Wow, I'm late to this party. Been sick and then playing catch-up to the point it took me the entire day to skim this thread, so I'll hit a couple big points that I saw along the way.

1. You are never going to make $150k driving someone else's truck. There is always a foreigner willing to drive for a fraction of that, you're trying to price yourself out of a job.

2. He worked 100+ hours a week in the oilfield under the oilfield exemption along with other tricks. I did it for a year. Basically, as long as you aren't driving a CMV without a qualified 10-hour break, you're good to go to be on-duty (not driving). This means the clock starts when you punch in, then you drive a company car out to a meetup site where your slip-seat truck is waiting 2 hours away. You now have 12 hours to work and drive that truck before you are bound to the pad/lease road until the relief driver shows up. Once that time expire and you have to leave the site, you are stuck (on duty) waiting for the car to show up with your relief driver, then you drive the car back (still counts as on-duty, not driving in commercial terms). So 2 + 12 + 2 + 2 = 18 hours. you then have to take 10 off to relieve your relief... each day tracking back 2 hours until your 5 days are complete, then 24 hours (not 34) off before it starts again. 18 hours 6 days a week most weeks = 108 hours, legally done on an e-log.

3. Lytx is full of shiz, and you are full of shiz for claiming they weren't looking at the drivers to find fault. We use Lyx, OUTWARD FACING ONLY. It has done what we needed, given quality information to protect us from frivolous lawsuits, and never allows us to violate the driver's privacy. I don't care what you claim, yes we CAN turn on the inward camera when the truck is shut down for the night and look in the sleeper (we have a couple day cabs and the spotters with inward on). Lytx uses AI, not human review, so anything is seen to be a violation and sent forth. Example: The reflection of a phone in the windshield... sitting still, but face up. Camera trigged by a bump. 90 minutes later, another bump triggers the camera, the phone is in the exact same spot, face-up. We got 2 separate hand-held phone violations sent by the AI... any human would have seen the phone was in the dash cubby plugged into the stereo to stream music.

4. The Smith System is HOT GARBAGE. It is what has caused a majority of the problems we face on the road today. "Be a pebble in the stream" = sit your 64 mph governed ass in the middle lane and make everyone pass you on the right since the left lane is restricted to trucks. You have proven to know nothing more than the mega-carrier BS that has ruined the industry. - Signed: An exasperated Safety Director that just finished record retention for an ambulance-chaser lawsuit where the 4-wheeler was 100% in the wrong, but since they were hit by a truck, they called chuck in hopes of early retirement.
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It's been several years since I worked for that company in that role. When we used drivecam, which looks like it was acquired by Lytx, every incident was reviewed by a human. I haven't worked there since 2016 so I'm sure you have more up to date information than I do. For the loads we ran and the area of the country we were in the system worked well and we didn't use it to punish drivers. I'm sure you could use it to punish people we chose not to. We ran heavy trucks and many tandem pulls also running right at the limit, so yeah we wanted our drivers driving defensively. Once again for us it worked. If there's something better now feel free to bring it up I'm not even in that industry any more just talking about my personal experience.

-ben
 
Provience said:
the smaller outfits and also buy their own rig and go independent.

Good for competition, get the .gov out of the elog business and make independents great again
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"Trucking with Schmidt" OO still uses paper logs, I didn't even know they still sold them. When we were cleaning out he folks closets found a whole briefcase stuffed full of used ones from the 80s, when the folks were still OO. I remember watching my dad he ran up to three log books at one time, kept two hidden in a round baby wipes container, trying to figure out how he could show how we had gotten to where we were at without him being over time
 
bigun said:
"Trucking with Schmidt" OO still uses paper logs, I didn't even know they still sold them. When we were cleaning out he folks closets found a whole briefcase stuffed full of used ones from the 80s, when the folks were still OO. I remember watching my dad he ran up to three log books at one time, kept two hidden in a round baby wipes container, trying to figure out how he could show how we had gotten to where we were at without him being over time
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The forbidden art of assembly the log to get paid from and the log to get inspected with :lmao:
 
Fair warning if you're gonna haul logs: You'll most likely be paid on percentage, loggers like to overtruck jobs, sometimes you'll take off at 1am to wait at the landing, and wait at the mill to get unloaded. You'll work in all weather conditions, and WA/OR snow and ice SUCKS. Whorehaeuser and SPI pay hourly and advertise online, pretty much everything else is word of mouth.
 
bigun said:
I remember watching my dad he ran up to three log books at one time, kept two hidden in a round baby wipes container, trying to figure out how he could show how we had gotten to where we were at without him being over time
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Provience said:
The forbidden art of assembly the log to get paid from and the log to get inspected with :lmao:
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It can get a little tricky with 3. Not so much with 2. I would keep the working one up front. Stash the others in the sleeper. Wild and fun times back then.
 
Spreader said:
It can get a little tricky with 3. Not so much with 2. I would keep the working one up front. Stash the others in the sleeper. Wild and fun times back then.
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Looseleaf and a notepad with locations and mileage/time scribbled on it. :laughing:
 
Years ago I drove lowboy hauling dozers and water tenders, during fire season.

Seasonal but a good gig.


KDXSR5 said:
My sister is OTR driving teams for a large national trucking company. She is definitely not bringing home a couple grand a week. Gotta get into something specialized to make that money from what she tells me.

Ever considered heavy haul?
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RusM said:
Well, goddamnit let's see it! My numbness seems to have resided so I'm looking for new content! :flipoff2:
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I honestly don't have pictures. I don't take pictures of people (other than my daughter) and don't have social media except this place.
 
Brian468





Container freight aka intermodal transportation was a cake walk.
 
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Provience said:
Hold the phone


You drove in total for 1 year and refused to drive in city traffic and made threats when sent there "in error" and yet were still the best driver the dispatcher had?

Something isn't adding up :rasta:
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I refused to drive to Long Island NY, no where else but there. It was an agreement I had with my dispatcher early on. I don’t know if I was her “best” driver as I never talked to other company drivers but once or twice while I worked there. It’s what she told me when I gave her my ultimatum. I wasn’t sent to Long Island by “error” and that’s not what I said either. The dispatcher covering for mine when she took off for a week vacation insisted I go to Long Island or park my truck as no other loads were available according to him. I warned him what I would do if he sent me up there. I’m not sure how my story isn’t adding up to you but I could care less beyond this post if you believe me or not.

Edit: I didn’t make threats, I told them my promise of what I’d do. In other words, I follow through with things, not bark like a dog
 
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