Author Topic: getting CDL any pointers?  (Read 364 times)

Offline WWhiskey

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Re: getting CDL any pointers?
« Reply #15 on: May 11, 2013, 07:05:23 PM »
Get class A,  buy a truck ; the contractors in oilfields are making more $$ than any equipment operators. I noticed a huge oilfields development over past 2-3 years south of San Antonio to Laredo,Tx.along I-35 and also in North Dakota and jobs posted along the roads on billboards. 
been there , done that,,  made a lot of money!
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Offline Volron

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Re: getting CDL any pointers?
« Reply #16 on: May 11, 2013, 08:42:09 PM »
I could never understand this....why in the name of god would I want to cut in front of something that could make me into something akin to a crushed beercan in less than 5 seconds.........  I drive alot for work, and i see it all the time, just cant wrap my head around some people. You guys have my respect having to deal with all the dipchits on the road these days.


Ehh, you get use to it....


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Of all things though, it's people on their cell, talking/texting, that have been the biggest issue.  They cause the most near misses I deal with. :bhead
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Offline homersipes

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Re: getting CDL any pointers?
« Reply #17 on: May 11, 2013, 09:47:24 PM »
I saw a lady brake check an tractor trailer loaded with logs going down hill after she cut in front of him :O  I don't think he missed her by more than a foot

Offline Buzzard7

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Re: getting CDL any pointers?
« Reply #18 on: May 11, 2013, 10:58:36 PM »
I blast the horn when they go by me texting. Scares the poo out of them.

Offline eagl

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Re: getting CDL any pointers?
« Reply #19 on: May 11, 2013, 11:09:25 PM »
I think if I was an interstate trucker, I'd have a variety of experimental electronic hobby devices, reputed to inadvertently shut down cellphone connections, turned on at all times.  I'm not, so I don't, but I've heard stories about those who do.  Some truckers have some pretty high power CB amps too, so I wonder what running a cellphone noise jammer through a nice amp and high-gain antenna would do to a cellphone in the next car.

There were some problems at some airports near busy freeways, with unreliable GPS signals.  They couldn't get some GPS approaches certified in spite of adding expensive GPS repeaters.  They finally tried the brute-force method of sitting on the airport with a device reporting GPS signal quality, and observed.  Turns out every time certain trucks drove past, the GPS signal became worthless.  Some more investigation led to the realization that there are a LOT of truckers who use GPS jammers, probably to give the finger to their corporate beancounters who question every routing decision they make.
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