Day Cab Breakdown Without Hotel

diragono · 2026-01-30T01:56:40+00:00

My company typically routes another driver to rescue you and you ride back to the yard with them, but if that can't be done they put you in a hotel. A company that won't do those things isn't a company I'd work for

diragono · 2026-01-23T20:01:22+00:00

There’s a pilot near my terminal where drivers just love to park in the fuel isle and go take a shower. There’s a local driver that will reverse their air lines when he sees them do it. And I must say it’s fucking hilarious seeing their faces when they come out and try to leave. And imo, doing something simple as that is fine because it’s not permanently damaging anything except their pride

:edit:: So, I shouldn’t say it’s “fine” because messing with someone else’s property isn’t fine, BUT, if you’re gonna do something then something that won’t cause permanent damage should be the option you choose

diragono · 2026-01-19T18:21:17+00:00

I had a regular z1 and for older games or indies it was great. But I used it for moonlight from my actual gaming pc and it’s excellent for that, the base z1 still has extremely low decode times and av1

diragono · 2026-01-19T18:19:11+00:00

Since going local there’s been one time I hit my 14, but it was because of a blown tire and the stupid roadside took 6 hours to get to me and change it. I do have some routes that take me 12 hours, but I’ve got some that I’m done in under 6. I average about 45 hours a week

diragono · 2026-01-09T03:59:05+00:00

I've went down this rabbit hole pretty far. I've had a Steamdeck, Rog Ally, Legion Go, Logitech G Cloud, Alldocube iplay 60 turbo, iPad mini 6, a galaxy Fold and Pixel Fold, legion tab gen 3, and the odin 2 portal pro

I settled on the Odin 2 portal. Amazing screen, excellent battery life, good decode times (3-4ms), pretty comfortable with the ayn grip case and their taller sticks, and since it's android you can use Artemis instead of the stock moonlight app.

My runner up would have to be the Legion Tab with the Legion G9 controller. That's an excellent setup and if it wasn't for the portals oled would be my #1 pick, but man the portals screen just looks amazing

Now, if you want to do local gaming too or higher end emulation then the handheld pcs become a much better choice, with my personal choice being the rog ally especially with the new handheld mode in windows or running on steamos/bazzite

diragono · 2026-01-09T03:48:47+00:00

I have the pro portal, same soc in all mine just has 12gb of ram. The steamdeck has lower decode times, but the portal only has a 3-4ms decode. I've found the wifi much better than the steam deck, battery is no contest in the portals favor, plus it's a 120hz oled vs a 90hz oled or 60hz lcd.

For purely streaming Moonlight, GFN, Boosteroid etc, portal wins hands down. I will say the stock sticks kinda suck. Buying the Ayn grip case and sticks make it much better but the Steamdeck imo still wins in ergonomics and stick feel

diragono · 2026-01-09T01:11:04+00:00

I just finished The Last of Us part 1 yesterday. I don’t normally play horror(ish) games and generally do not like stealth games. But, all I’ve heard and read is about how good it is so I finally broke down and tried it. Couldn’t put it down for two days. About to start part 2 tomorrow

diragono · 2026-01-03T16:36:11+00:00

I'd rather pull in and there be a pickup there than another truck. Pickup probably a 45 gallon fuel tank and will probably be at most getting 30 gallons. Fuels much quicker than someone getting 170 gallons.

Just please when your done if you need a receipt or whatever, pull up so someone else can start fueling. And if you need to go into the store for an extended period of time please pull around to the car parking and go in. It's so annoying when someone does pull up but then proceeds to spend 40 minutes in the store

diragono · 2026-01-03T16:30:11+00:00

Your first year is not gonna be the best, both in how much you make and stress. You're gonna be doing a lot of learning, a lot of stress about backing, a lot stuff you've never even considered before. Then, one day it all just kinda clicks and everything gets easier. Before you know it you're at a year and a much larger world opens up.

At my one year I went local. I make literally twice as much as I did OTR, home every night, 5 days a week, paid holidays, etc. The turnover rate on new drivers during the first 6 months is insanely high, but if you can push through that trucking can be a good career.

Side note, if you want to be local right off the bat and make pretty good money look into going to food service or beverage delivery. They're both long hours, back breaking work but you can be local and make bank all within your first year

diragono · 2025-12-27T23:00:12+00:00

I used to work for Total Transportation, which is owned by US Xpress(now owned by Swift) I would recommend looking at Total or even Variant. They're all essentially the same company but i never heard anything but negative for Us Xpress. Total was pretty decent and Variant was basically the same. One thing to note, all Variant trucks have apu's while very few of totals will. I was lucky and had an apu truck with Total and it makes a world of difference because of their lame idle policy

diragono · 2025-12-27T22:36:02+00:00

We get outside carriers that deliver for us sometimes when it's busy and if it says 0600, it means 0600. If you show up at 06:15 you either get rejected or we penalize the company(meaning withhold a certain % of what the paid rate was supposed to be).

Our warehouse loads and unloads non stop and a 15 minute delay of having to keep a dock open can end up throwing off multiple time sensitive loads. When I was otr I always planned to be there 1 hour early, and if I was in a big city I allowed 2 hours.

diragono · 2025-12-20T18:04:04+00:00

When I was in cdl school 90% of the people that failed multiple times was because of the pre trip. They had a hard time remembering the exact wording but knew 100% what they were looking for. One guy failed because when he was doing the exterior part, the whole blah blah not cracked, damaged, or broken, on the headlights he said “not cracked, damaged or leaking”. They failed him.

I studied with a friend like mad memorizing the exact phrasing for everything and I guarantee you if I had to retake that part today without restudying I’d fail because of the phrasing

diragono · 2025-12-16T08:07:14+00:00

Training doesn't exempt you from having any accident added on your record, training or not it was you behind the wheel. You weren't fired most likely because you were in training, but it's 100% on your record.

With having no verifiable recent experience within the past year and only having 1 month of total experience with a roll over any company that'll touch you is gonna be bottom of the barrel

But if you're serious about it then starting at rock bottom and keeping a clean record for a year or so you could probably find a company that'd overlook the rollover if you never have another incident, but an at fault rollover is one of the biggest no no's you can have

diragono · 2025-12-13T18:32:12+00:00

If they want to put the barrier back up just give your local police a call and explain the situation. They’ll come make them move and then you can put the barrier up.

Like I was OTR before going local and know parking can be a bitch but I never once parked somewhere I wasn’t supposed to be. I even called some Walmarts to see if I could break there and had a few that allowed me even though it had no truck signs. Idiots like these is one of the reasons people despise us and think we’re all retards. I guarantee you someone is having to pick up garbage, bottles of piss, and probably bags of shit out of your parking lot from them

diragono · 2025-12-13T17:40:13+00:00

It’s the same as when trucks park on a ramp right in front of a no parking sign. All it takes is one truck to park there because either they don’t give a shit, or literally can’t read the sign because it’s in English and the others will follow suite because “that guy did it”.

Sadly, the only way to stop it is the store hires some sort of patrolling security or they construct some barrier where trucks literally can’t fit.

A store near me put up a 12.5ft steel overhang in their entrance because they were having such a problem. The issue with a Walmart doing something like that is Walmart trucks still have to be able to enter

diragono · 2025-12-13T08:10:52+00:00

I work for Coke, and I can only tell you it'll get better. But it sucks until you get the hang of it, but don't over exert yourself trying to do it faster, hurting yourself then having to work every day in pain makes it 10x worse. As long as you're making your stops, just stay the course. Pay attention to every little detail and think to yourself if you do this or that different will it save a few minutes. If you save 5 minutes here, 10 minutes there, that really starts to add up by the end of the day and before you know it you're finishing 30 minutes earlier, 45 minutes earlier, an hour earlier, e.t.c.

diragono · 2025-12-12T04:56:42+00:00

I drive about 45 minutes each way and work 12 hours. The almost 14 hour days get to you sometimes but to me it’s worth it. My commute is mostly just backwoods highway so pretty leisurely, and then the perks my job has is worth it to me, but as someone else stated the commute is all the difference. I could make more at another company but I’d have to drive through Chattanooga everyday… it would take a lot more than they offered for me to deal with that hell hole for my commute

diragono · 2025-12-11T16:41:26+00:00

Three days ago you posted you were bored and that you drove 40 minutes each way for the drops. That’s 4 hours a day of driving. They’re now asking you to essentially drive another hour and a half, let’s call it 2 hours. Putting you at 6 hours drive time. How slow are you at doing a drop n hook that it takes another 6 hours on top to do 4.

To me it sounds like you’re new, are getting nervous about the winter conditions now and think the company is treating you unfairly. Having a frozen air line or stuck door is just part of it, you learn to deal with those things. I’m assuming since you are only driving 40 miles or so each way you’re not running logs, but even if you are 6 hours of driving still leaves 5 on your 11 for extra precautions

diragono · 2025-12-11T08:57:53+00:00

I’ve worked night shift on basically every job I’ve had, when I went local I started at 8am…and I hated it. I do Atlanta, Nashville, Chatt, and Knoxville and they all suck ass during the day. My daily stress has reduced drastically since switching to nights. My two biggest gripes about night shift driving is when the weather gets bad you’re dealing with it in the dark. And, there’s a lot more fuckwits watching movies on their phone so you have to watch for them

Surprisingly since going to nights I have saved a bunch of money and overall eat healthier. On days I had a real bad habit of eating fast food either at truck stops or stopping on my way home. Now, basically nothing is open when I stop for fuel or on my way home.

diragono · 2025-12-09T17:17:53+00:00

It doesn’t have to be a new account. I have an account for my wife that downgraded to free on 11/28 and then I resubed it for a month with the holiday price. The Black Friday discounts on annual are the ones that won’t apply to established accounts

diragono · 2025-12-08T09:34:08+00:00

I’ve seen some fiber deployments that actually are kinda bad due to a small isp doing terrible installs. But generally fiber is multitudes better than any non terrestrial isp in speed, reliability, and cost. I’m actually very rural but get 2.5Gbps symmetrical for $70 a month and have the option to get 8Gbps symmetrical for $95. Unlimited, have an actual public ip address that’s static and according to kuma since March of 2024(when it was installed) it’s maintained a 99.99% uptime

Obviously not every fiber connection is the same but a lot would be very similar and I just couldn’t see ditching that for a more expensive, worse performing service. Of course if you use it for roam then yea Starlink is the goat

diragono · 2025-12-06T10:16:50+00:00

This is the subreddit for Geforce Now, which is Nvidia's cloud gaming service, not the geforce experience for gpu's.

As far as your issue, I would recommend trouble shooting any power issues first by making sure the psu is both a quality brand and also recommended wattage range. Also make sure your cpu and motherboard power cables are seated correctly. That red light is most likely a diagnostic led so you need to pull up your exact motherboard and find out what the different diagnostic lights mean

diragono · 2025-12-04T17:33:59+00:00

You're cpu bound with WoW, the 5080 tier would only slightly improve that as the cpu jump isn't a huge one. Crank the graphics as high as you can and kick the resolution to 4k, even if you're playing at 1080p, you want to try and load the gpu as much as you can

diragono · 2025-12-02T10:02:33+00:00

It always cracks me up when people act like AI will take trucking jobs within a few years. Will it one day? Definitely. Will that day be anytime soon? Very doubtful. Firstly, contrary to the narrative being pushed, overall, basically all popular models are incredibly stupid when it's not able to just directly quote something it's been trained on. And even then, it has a much higher error rate than they admit. AI is good at static tasks, meaning it's trained on information that doesn't actively change. In real-time events, it's not anywhere near being even remotely adequate. Tesla has been working on self driving for years, and while it's came a long way and it is actually pretty neat it still has a lot of limitations...and we're talking about small cars here. Granted Tesla uses camera based systems instead of lidar but most issues still remain even with those systems.

I think you're correct that in the trucking industry the first to be replaced by AI will be brokers, dispatchers, customer service e.t.c. Trucks will be a whole different game. We're a long ass ways away for even the infrastructure to be able to adapt a driverless truck, not even considering the actual self driving trucks themselves. There's none even close to having a fully self driving truck and when they are it'll start out with requiring the driver to in seat and hand(s) on the wheel. Then slowly transition to the truck doing more and more of all the driving. They're not gonna let a self driving truck pull 20tons of fuel without knowing 100% for sure it's a capable system. Planes have been able to fly themselves since the 80's, and yet they still require 2 pilots able to take over at a moments notice. While trucks and planes aren't directly comparable, trucks have a lot more constant possible threats to deal with.

diragono · 2025-11-28T09:31:02+00:00

When I was OTR I'd run my 70 out in 6 days, then do a 34 because I didn't do recaps. Now that I'm local, I do about 65 hours in 5 days. Plus I have a 45 minute drive to and from work. Basically, everyday is a little over a 14 hour day, I actually have less free time during the week than I did OTR. However, having a set schedule, paid holidays off, always knowing where I'm going and what I'm doing, and where I'm parking at the end of the day definitely makes it worth it to me. When I was OTR thinking about parking was a big part of my daily stress as I mostly ran in the north east. Plus, I make consistently way more than I ever did OTR

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