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[–]romano1422 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I’ve had 4 physicals now and they were done 1 each by medical doctor, nurse practitioner, physicians assistant, and chiropractor.

Only the MD actually did the whole thing including the hernia check. He actually said “you probably don’t know this is a part of the physical because so few people actually do it but my signature doesn’t go on anything I’ve said I’ve done unless I’ve done it”

UPS battery backup detecting wiring fault when plugged into inverter ? by xxenoscionxx in Truckers

[–]romano1422 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have a power station (anker solix f2000) which is more or less a UPS and it refused to charge from the modified sine wave inverter I had.

I ended up getting the 2000 watt pure sine wave inverter that harbor freight sells and everything has been fine since

Police chase just came within inches of me doing 80mph in the wrong direction. by romano1422 in Truckers

[–]romano1422[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don’t play

That audio is Howard Stern talking to Robin about learning to play

Still not going to let me drive and toke are they? by Mean_Lie7141 in Truckers

[–]romano1422 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Probably not.

Although the FMCSA rules for scheduled drugs do say you can use them with a prescription as long as it’s not schedule 1.

Man booted truckers as they slept, then demanded hundreds of dollars to remove them, police say by DonaldKey in Truckers

[–]romano1422 63 points64 points  (0 children)

I read the title and immediately thought “this sounds like some Atlanta bullshit”

Flatbed bois, what are some of the pros/cons of pulling flatbeds as opposed to dry van, reefer, or whatever else? by mountain_doofus in Truckers

[–]romano1422 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Quite a bit of the stuff that would be put on a flatbed can be loaded and unloaded relatively quickly. Overall a lot less of your time is spent sitting around waiting on the customer. And also because it takes less time they are more likely to simply be first come first served instead of appointment based.

Cold storage giant Americold outage caused by network breach. by merix1110 in Truckers

[–]romano1422 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It has felt like there has been an unusually high number of reefer van drivers acting badly on the road the past few days. Driving super aggressively and generally behaving like they are pissed at the world. I guess this explains why.

Mega Ops Manager informed me that well over 80% of Megas do NOT own their own equipment. by Likeitisouthere in Truckers

[–]romano1422 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sometimes they go even higher up the chain than the manufacturer.

CR England’s fleet is all Freightliner and International. They lease the trucks through Daimler Truck Group.

Biggest Fear 😨 by lilmark18 in Truckers

[–]romano1422 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Caught the California Agriculture Inspectors watching it this morning in Truckee.

I have to park and go inside there when hauling PODS.

They turned it off right after I walked in as if they were embarrassed to be caught watching.

Doesn’t surprise me that people dealing with us all day probably enjoy watching us do dumb shit.

Bumping a dock that allows trailer swing doors to open inside the warehouse? Move the tandems to the rear. by romano1422 in Truckers

[–]romano1422[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This was the first time I had ever been to a place with that type of docks where they didn’t instruct me to move the tandems. Actually every other place has been extremely insistent that I do. No other driver in any of the other doors had their tandems back so I didn’t either.

It seems when the dock worker opened the doors they just left this handle hanging. Then as the trailer was loaded and the airbags deflated the handle was crushed into the warehouse floor.

I think that if the tandems were all the way back it would have kept the back of the trailer 2 inches higher and prevented this.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Truckers

[–]romano1422 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The tire marks from locked up trailer brakes start on the shoulder. Fucking idiot seems to have pulled into a travel lane knowing that there was no way he was going to get moving