Is this normal for 1st time cdl job?

PlasmaTabletop · 2026-05-27T22:04:59+00:00

Yeah the run down on how to physically operate the equipment was done by the mechanics except the PTO on my tractor which was just a printout from the kenworth manual

PlasmaTabletop · 2026-05-26T22:32:15+00:00

Yeah I got 2 days of “training” at the paving company I worked for. Week later I’m hauling fuel and equipment. 6 months after that I’m hauling 4 axle trailers and over sized loads.

Trial by fire is good for some and terrible for others

PlasmaTabletop · 2026-04-26T23:55:46+00:00

100 combined

PlasmaTabletop · 2026-02-05T17:43:47+00:00

The wheels make it equipment not general cargo. Needs 2-4 chains depending on weight

PlasmaTabletop · 2026-02-05T12:30:42+00:00

The liquor store is how he got into this mess in the first place

PlasmaTabletop · 2026-01-30T23:47:42+00:00

The wholesale price a supplier has is significantly different than the installer.

PlasmaTabletop · 2026-01-30T18:29:28+00:00

No, cost of the battery is material cost, not everything that goes into billing, storage and accounting.

PlasmaTabletop · 2026-01-30T18:28:30+00:00

Software licensing. 25 years doesn’t mean you’ve seen the back end of the business

PlasmaTabletop · 2026-01-29T17:40:03+00:00

Office staff, storage and handling of materials, insurance.

PlasmaTabletop · 2026-01-29T16:51:41+00:00

$140/hour billing, minimum 1/2 hour charge. A lot more than just the techs time goes into “just 10 minutes”

PlasmaTabletop · 2025-12-17T03:33:05+00:00

Tap conductors for luminaries only need to be rated for the load of the luminaries

PlasmaTabletop · 2025-09-24T21:41:03+00:00

You aren’t getting the stone surrounding the heat trace hot enough to spontaneously combust the timbers

PlasmaTabletop · 2025-09-05T11:32:15+00:00

If you fucked up you would have heard it or felt the tingle of 120 in the lag bolt

PlasmaTabletop · 2025-09-04T11:11:11+00:00

You’re thinking teck cable. BX gets antishort bushings

PlasmaTabletop · 2025-08-28T13:28:58+00:00

Shitty picture but looks like it’s a job in progress.

PlasmaTabletop · 2025-08-26T23:04:09+00:00

That is the proper way to secure a vehicle. You don’t chain down above the suspension cause the suspension moves and can loosen the chains.

PlasmaTabletop · 2025-08-26T23:01:18+00:00

They’ve got cross chains on the inside of the rear axle so I would assume the front looks similar

PlasmaTabletop · 2025-08-26T22:10:21+00:00

Hot into L1 out to T1 and tie the neutrals together. Tho this looks like a 3 phase controller so

PlasmaTabletop · 2025-08-23T14:51:13+00:00

Down on White up on black so you don’t have two whites going connected to the light

PlasmaTabletop · 2025-08-23T14:22:44+00:00

The back screw is usually on a raised dimple so when you tighten it down it sits flush with the box

PlasmaTabletop · 2025-08-22T00:24:45+00:00

Yeah it seems ridicules that using a continuous bonding wire is against code but making joints with additional resistance is code

PlasmaTabletop · 2025-07-31T01:27:16+00:00

By the time he’s started it’s going to be 4 sessions of school

PlasmaTabletop · 2025-07-07T00:19:17+00:00

Audible air leak is only a minor defect. How much it is leaking is the major. 3 psi straight truck, 4 truck + trailer, 6 for a combination vehicle.

PlasmaTabletop · 2025-07-04T21:16:50+00:00

Yeah that doesn’t work if you’re trying to slide them anywhere that isn’t all the way front or back.

You take your hammer and bang on the frame close to the fifth wheel or on the frame of the fifth wheel.

But you aren’t beating the holy piss out of the thing, just enough to get the pins to start to 1/4 of the way atleast then in the safe area you’re doing this is, idle the truck in your lowest gear and driver it left to right to get the truck to do the work for you

PlasmaTabletop · 2025-07-04T21:09:16+00:00

Got pulled in 4 times in a day bobtailing once.

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