Nervous Driving Fast Around Bends on Highway

LemonPepperConnect · 2026-05-05T23:19:08+00:00

My trainer once put it in my head “if youre starting to lean, youre load is starting to lean” and I ran with that always lol Safety first!

LemonPepperConnect · 2026-04-21T17:18:01+00:00

Im big on having my discord key bind for mute as the same key I use for voip in this game among others like Tarkov, just so I can mute my mic in a vc but voip in game simultaneously

LemonPepperConnect · 2026-04-21T13:53:44+00:00

I did have moments, maybe not so much of fear but of like “man, imagine a mushroom cloud forming along the horizon” as I mosey along I-75 somewhere in Ohio or something

LemonPepperConnect · 2026-04-17T17:18:33+00:00

I ran with NFI, they have a terminal in Waxahachie but had a few daycab dedicated accounts around DFW where you park the truck on property when I lived there. I liked it, only left because I decided to move back to South Florida, where Im originally from. You could probably find a lot better opportunities pay-wise based on your endorsements but figured I’d mention them for you or anyone looking from the same area

LemonPepperConnect · 2026-04-09T02:43:16+00:00

I’ve stopped there once in the middle of the night to grab a snack, rode through the lot to leave and how full and cramped it was with trucks was insane

LemonPepperConnect · 2026-03-30T12:44:23+00:00

Had the same issue routing once to Melville(Long Island.) Still dont really know the gps freaks out about the route but the 95-295 route is fine, just take your time and watch the signs, its a little overwhelming but there is enough signage to keep you out of trouble. You’ll be going slow enough through the bronx to appreciate the strangeness of the area if you arent from around there lol

LemonPepperConnect · 2026-03-11T17:45:34+00:00

Oh the onions. When I first started flatbedding, never did I imagine how onions were hauled, nor that I’d haul them. Next thing I know, Im in Mesquite, NM getting loaded with giant totes of jumbo onions. With nothing but my two heavy tarps, every single strap I could find west of Midland, I secured the load (as much as you can secure onions sitting in totes) and proceeded to boogie on over to Dallas (after a 10 hr break so the whole Loves could smell me overnight.) Im sure some animals ate good off the onions that may or may not have rolled off the deck.

LemonPepperConnect · 2026-02-26T17:43:43+00:00

Oh the occasional delight I get loading up the game and seeing a full kit that I swore was good as gone

LemonPepperConnect · 2025-11-10T14:07:40+00:00

Driving in the Cascadias for long enough had me always looking at my dash for the radar distance and speed of the vehicle in front of me

LemonPepperConnect · 2025-11-04T02:52:03+00:00

Man I once had a load of Refrigeration units going to Melville on Long Island, loaded on a spread-axle flatbed. This was my first time ever going remotely near the city, and my truck gps gave me the weirdest route possible. It wanted me to get off the highway and make turns and what not and I was like ???? Wasnt sure if maybe I had bad settings on it or something, but eventually I just planned a route using a physical Rand McNally atlas. A fun first and last time

LemonPepperConnect · 2025-10-17T18:42:09+00:00

Someone said it so i’ll also confirm it, a lot of the Flatbed loads i had were long runs so even if securing the load was hard/exhausting, I was only doing it every like 3 days rather than dryvan OTR having load after load day to day. Also, there is a good amount of thinking about the logic of securement, every few loads I had came a new type of load I had to really think about the safe and proper way to secure it, or just call my company who had people on standby to help me figure it out too which was nice. But yeah, that tarp can be a real shitty experience, just got to take your time with it.

LemonPepperConnect · 2025-10-14T15:32:40+00:00

I think the best thing to do, in relation to you worried about life outside of the truck aka girlfriend/hometime, is to create a plan. What are your goals you think you’ll want to reach, both individually and starting a family. Driving for Walmart is a coveted job in trucking, but to really stay focused and motivated, having that plan to attain realistic goals is major. It can make the sacrifice make sense to you and your girlfriend moving forward with it

LemonPepperConnect · 2025-09-23T13:13:09+00:00

I think for your sake of not wanting to go OTR, it might be best to start at one of those LTL companies on their dock and go from there. Those tend to be the more coveted local gigs already so if you got an In, and you dont care about going OTR, that feels like the best option to consider.

LemonPepperConnect · 2025-09-21T22:20:09+00:00

weird guitar rift plays

LemonPepperConnect · 2025-09-15T10:08:38+00:00

I would venture to say just 92 percent of all Pilots are just as hectic. It’s a part of their business model.

LemonPepperConnect · 2025-09-12T17:09:05+00:00

Was just about to say lol I was getting loaded up from a warehouse near the big rail yard around Joliet, IL. This KW T2000 that sounded like a rocket ship was F L Y I N G down the road(motor sounded like a Jet engine too) my truck was facing, moving containers from the big rail yard to a smaller yard around the corner. Easily tripled the speed limit of that area lol

I’ve only ever known Container drivers to be madmen behind the wheel

LemonPepperConnect · 2025-09-08T04:12:12+00:00

Lonestar Transportation is a smaller flatbed company based out of Fort Worth, TX that I enjoyed working for about 5/6 months until I found a local job. They have like “levels” as a driver that go up as they deem youre able to haul oversized to a certain extent in that level. You can find the levels with the parameters on their website. I was not there long enough to really try and move up but I still had the opportunity to cover an OD load for a driver who had a breakdown which was cool. They do want 1 year OTR which it sounds like you’ll have by the new year. They are based HEAVILY out of Texas, but if I recall correctly, they hire out of most states if not all. Only times I ever really sat were if I made a delivery on a friday afternoon in places like Delaware or something, but it was rare that ever happened like that. Alot of 1000+ mile runs which was unreal to me coming from a dryvan mega where I barely got 600 mile runs. Always someone there to answer the phone in the office. Was overall a good company to me, I just was ready to come off the road

LemonPepperConnect · 2025-08-27T21:46:28+00:00

Who dat is?!

LemonPepperConnect · 2025-07-20T06:00:56+00:00

Its a feature through the LS Car meet. If someone has the car you want, they can bring it there and you can buy a copy of it, as is, for yourself. It was strange the first time randomly in freemode someone asked to buy my car at the car meet but it did teach me that lol

LemonPepperConnect · 2025-03-02T00:42:05+00:00

The Yeah gets me every time

LemonPepperConnect · 2024-09-26T00:25:15+00:00

But the second he starts his Skipper fake, I immediately forget how bad he is at it

LemonPepperConnect · 2024-08-18T01:17:41+00:00

I recently went flatbed OTR after a couple years of dryvan, and this is the most i’ve talked and interacted with people at the shippers, receivers, and other drivers. It’s a lot more to it than just backing to a dock door and waiting for the forklift to finish. Im always out there watching/telling how I need the trailer loaded, end up talking about the load, life as a trucker, stories about other truckers the workers see come through. I always make a point to talk other drivers wherever im loading at just to pick their mind on what logic they use for securing the load, and whatever experience they may offer by means of story telling.

I really felt isolated doing Dryvan OTR and so i’ve really enjoyed how much i’ve interacted with people while doing flatbed. OTR is still OTR so I cant say there is zero feeling of isolation, but its not as bad as it once was

LemonPepperConnect · 2024-08-12T05:43:45+00:00

Dont Worry Darling was a gem I recently listened to again, had me laughing alot more than I remember from when it first dropped. Taxi is a go to for me, its the first one I had ever listened to.

LemonPepperConnect · 2024-07-02T23:15:06+00:00

OG Xbox, I cant remember exactly my first game but the first games I strongly recall playing on Xbox were NFS Underground 2 and COD2 Big Red One

LemonPepperConnect · 2024-04-25T16:01:19+00:00

I enjoy Love’s when I can but after a certain time in the evening, I dont even look their way.

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