The Official: Automotive enthusiast thread
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I wanna see what the GR Corolla is like, I’m on the fence with this or an older sportwagen
2023 Toyota GR Corolla looks ferocious, packs 300 horsepower
2023 Toyota GR Corolla hot hatchback arrives with all the GR Yaris goodies such as a manual transmission, trick all-wheel-drive, but more power.
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Maybe one thing missing from this is the success stories. I think it does have to be acknowledged some people do really well with this. The insanely huge caveat to this though is these success stories are usually in extremely niche situations and probably accomplished with people who had strong mentoriing; sometime from a Dad or Uncle who is an old timer truck driver. Another element to this is these people have a plan to commit to the lifestyle.
I think a few o the niche areas with good pay involve the fuel industry, the Oil Fields or hauling frack sand, or people setup to do specialty heavy haul. These will requite commiting to lots of time away from home, but at least they're getting good pay. There are a few local dedicated jobs that pay well, but it's a challenge to find one.
The reason to have perspective on the success stories is the industry likes to portray itself as if this is the norm and typical drivers will be on the way to earning $100,000 a year. What is even worse is some of these successful drivers look down on the rookies struggling to get.
Average person out of trucking school like me will just kind of meander through the industry kind of clueless.
Truckers don't want to drive for mega carriers anymore
Truck drivers are ditching mega carriers in favor of short-haul journeys at smaller carriers or as independent owner operators, a professor said.
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On a lighter note on this crazy industry, I've been looking a different jobs and was debating trying these weird trailers.
Most of the time when you see Tanks you probably think it's liquid, but they are loaded with granular materials. I think sometimes they can move Frack Sand or often Cement. Sometimes fine plastic pieces. Some of them are dedicated Food Grade for things like Rice, Four, or maybe Cereals.
It's a weird setup. The Truck has a Blower that feeds air through another hose to the trailer. It can aerate or fluff up the product to loosen it, get it to drop into the blower line feeding it into a storage silo.
I've heard cement can be a mess or prone to blocking in the line. On the hand hand, I think loading is usually really fast.
Most of the time when you see Tanks you probably think it's liquid, but they are loaded with granular materials. I think sometimes they can move Frack Sand or often Cement. Sometimes fine plastic pieces. Some of them are dedicated Food Grade for things like Rice, Four, or maybe Cereals.
It's a weird setup. The Truck has a Blower that feeds air through another hose to the trailer. It can aerate or fluff up the product to loosen it, get it to drop into the blower line feeding it into a storage silo.
I've heard cement can be a mess or prone to blocking in the line. On the hand hand, I think loading is usually really fast.
Maybe fert like milorganite? Looks pretty cool, put those in horizon and let menace take pics
When I see semi's parked on the sides of off ramps along the shoulder, does that mean they are sleeping?
They might just be taking a mandatory break or maybe have a tire blow out, but yeah often it's to sleep. There isn't enough parking spaces for all these trucks so it's hard to get into a truck stop or rest area sometimes, or Rest Areas have trucks parked on the ramp because they're full.
I have always guessed that is what they were doing, but I never knew. So now all I picture is people HARD accelerating in their cars and trucks on those ramps and being too noisy for the truck drivers to sleep.
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It's weird, the truck engine idling for the A/C or Heat is a little noisy anyway. If you pull a refrigerated trailer, that's even more noise behind you from the HVAC unit.
I've seen jokes from drivers in Facebook Groups I'm in about trying to sleep at home and it's to quiet.
There are even several 'White Noise' videos on YouTube.
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Although he still has to replace his window, he came up with a deterrent that chased away the would-be thief Friday night.
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Think I've decided on the Civic Hatchback Sport. Wanted a manual still but talked to the dealer and could be 5-6 month wait. As I've posted before my current car is on last legs so just going with the CVT option. Have one reserved that is scheduled to be built in May so still have time to look, but not much out there that interests me. Didn't think much on color but there was either white or sonic gray so went with the gray. The website doesn't really do it justice but in videos I really like it. Almost like a blue tint to it.
Sonic gray looks much better in person. I was torn between that color and and still night pearl when I got my accord last year.
Looking back, kind of wish I went with the gray. Pearl showed swirls really quickly similar to black.
Starting new job driving Super Grocery Getter Freightliner with Thermoking refrigerated trailer.
No bed
This is for a new warehouse and will be home daily. Untill the warehouse if finished, I'm helping to bring freight here from another place, but the company will put me up in hotels.
Getting ready to roll. Got a Tablet dash mount kit so I can have my sweet Tablet Navigation.
I re-subbed to Pandora.
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