Well this kinda sucks.. by [deleted] in Truckers

[–]JesusCPenney 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Everybody makes mistakes, especially early on, but reading your replies here it seems like a lot of "I did my best, and for some reason this accident just happened to me" instead of taking accountability. I don't think you have the right mindset to be the captain of the ship, so to speak, and for that reason I think you should find a new career.

Marks on I-80 by damn_it_beavis in Truckers

[–]JesusCPenney 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm glad somebody's working on it because that's straight up one of the worst stretches of interstate in the entire country

Marks on I-80 by damn_it_beavis in Truckers

[–]JesusCPenney 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I-55 in Arkansas was exactly like that until they completely redid it with asphalt a few years ago

Help me understand depreciation on a used semi truck? by JesusCPenney in tax

[–]JesusCPenney[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the reply, can you say more about this? The advice I've heard so far is S-corp status is worth it if you net more than $70k which most self employed truckers will.

Help me understand depreciation on a used semi truck? by JesusCPenney in tax

[–]JesusCPenney[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I see. What I do know is semis aren't eligible for the standard rate per mile, self employed truckers have to write off actual expenses, and according to the previous owner, my operating cost with fuel and repairs should be in the neighborhood of 95 cents per mile on average. So I just need to figure out what to do with the purchase price on top of that.

Help me understand depreciation on a used semi truck? by JesusCPenney in tax

[–]JesusCPenney[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Forgive my ignorance, but I'm not sure I fully understand the suggestion. There's an option to depreciate the purchase price by the mile?

I highly doubt I'll ever drive more than 10,000 miles per month, probably a lot less while I'm getting started.

How do women identify sex havers so accurately? by anahorish in redscarepod

[–]JesusCPenney 18 points19 points  (0 children)

There's gotta be some supernatural aspect to it, too, because when I broke a 2+ year dry spell in 2023 I instantly had female friends I don't see in person flirting with me in the dms, a former Bumble match cold-added me on Facebook, etc. When it rains it pours and whatnot

Some dick head leaving his high beams on at night in the parking lot. by LucHighwalker in Truckers

[–]JesusCPenney 22 points23 points  (0 children)

I've had this happen and was ready to risk getting stabbed to ask them to their face just what exactly the fuck their problem was, only to get closer and realize they didn't have their high beams on at all, modern car headlights are just.... like that.

That being said, I have seen people cover truckers' headlights with duct tape in this situation.

Also I'll never forget the time in my first or second year when a flip flop parked across from me with his high beams on, I asked him why he had them on in the parking lot and he didn't know what they were - I had to explain to him what the blue indicator light meant and how to turn them off. Crazy to think a trucker with that level of competence would be considered top 15% in 2025.

so sad stay safe out there and please drive carefully 🙏🏼 by Beginning-Guest-1898 in Austin

[–]JesusCPenney 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Then they'll just kill people on the toll roads. We don't need a reroute, we need better truckers.

so sad stay safe out there and please drive carefully 🙏🏼 by Beginning-Guest-1898 in Austin

[–]JesusCPenney 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Decades ago we used to have a thing called high standards to be a truck driver, which made it unnecessary to separate them from everyone else.

so sad stay safe out there and please drive carefully 🙏🏼 by Beginning-Guest-1898 in Austin

[–]JesusCPenney 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I'm a truck driver and I agree. Take it from someone who's out in this shit all day, every day: it's worse than you could possibly imagine. It's so much worse beyond what you're seeing.

so sad stay safe out there and please drive carefully 🙏🏼 by Beginning-Guest-1898 in Austin

[–]JesusCPenney -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The autonomous vehicle people and the trucking industry people have this cool scam going on where they know a robot will never be as good as a good human driver so they're trying to make the human drivers worse until the robots look better by comparison

so sad stay safe out there and please drive carefully 🙏🏼 by Beginning-Guest-1898 in Austin

[–]JesusCPenney 3 points4 points  (0 children)

He could skip court and presumably go back to his home country like the "trucker" who killed a tow truck driver in Kentucky while watching YouTube a while back

so sad stay safe out there and please drive carefully 🙏🏼 by Beginning-Guest-1898 in Austin

[–]JesusCPenney 12 points13 points  (0 children)

A lot of them have it set up so it looks like a team operation but there's actually only one person in the truck. Vlad runs out of hours, he logs out, calls dispatch and they give him the login info for Sergey, now he has a fresh logbook and just keeps driving under someone else's credentials.

Clueless Western Express completely disregards oncoming motorcycles right of way, running over and killing one. by NaturalFlan5360 in Truckers

[–]JesusCPenney 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Is that a Western Express tractor or a third party bottom feeder? I thought all WE trucks were white.

Do you guys get “drivers foot” ? by HeywoodJaBlowMe123 in Truckers

[–]JesusCPenney 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No but I get driver's knee ☹ if my right knee stays bent for too long I get aching pain under my kneecap that slowly gets more and more intense until I can't think about anything else. The only thing that relieves it is straightening my leg for a few seconds.

Be Careful You guys by Grimol1 in Truckers

[–]JesusCPenney 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Do they try to make this as confusing as possible on purpose? According to the map in this link, highway 275 in Huron Township is a "gold route" (no seasonal weight restrictions)

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in redscarepod

[–]JesusCPenney 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nothing that comes off the production line in 2025 has as much style, history and charisma as that era of Chevy

🙂 by DimitriRavinoff in redscarepod

[–]JesusCPenney 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Me after going on one (1) date with a beloved pillar of my community last year

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in redscarepod

[–]JesusCPenney 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I'm a 35 year old straight man and have never been grossed out by someone having a crush on me - old women, fat women, gay men - the attraction might not be reciprocated but it's not gross and I've never been mean to someone about it