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[Greiger]

Chill out with your internets in the sleeper cab pretending yer hiding out from a horde of zombies just like you were playing cataclysm!

You can even tell the zombie in the front that if it stops at some McDonalds you won't try to fend it off with a nail board!

[Sirus]

That's pretty much all I can do

I feel kinda bad about it, but the 70 hour limit is federal law and electronically tracked, so I'm in no rush to try and work around it.

[Rose]

Sirus, you're making me want to get a job as a trucker.

Sirus, stahp.

[miauw62]

Chill out with your internets in the sleeper cab pretending yer hiding out from a horde of zombies just like you were playing cataclysm!

You can even tell the zombie in the front that if it stops at some McDonalds you won't try to fend it off with a nail board!

Don't encourage Sirus to take drugs D:

[MaximumZero]

Sirus, you're making me want to get a job as a trucker.

Sirus, stahp.

I would have done so years ago, if not for my kid.

[Sirus]

Sirus, you're making me want to get a job as a trucker.

Sirus, stahp.

I would have done so years ago, if not for my kid.

You'd be surprised. A number of truckers have families waiting for them at home. A good number of them take more local routes, delivering to the same places every week and being home weekly or even daily.

Of course, that means that you don't get to see the country, which is probably the main draw of this career.

[MrSparky]

Sirus, you're making me want to get a job as a trucker.

Sirus, stahp.

I used to want to be a trucker, then I found out that while your drop-off point can yell at you for being late, you can't do the same to your pick-up point. Also, your waypoints are not fixed when you leave base. You're like the Terran SCV or Zerg Drone or Protoss Probe. Your dispatcher can reroute you at any time. Sure, you can see interesting stuff, but you have almost no choice in which stuff. You have set points and times of departure and arrival. Set as in you can't change them unless they are legally/physically impossible due to something beyond your control. Want to stop at a tourist trap? Unless you managed to get a haul with a lenient time allotment or made excellent time you can't.

And now back to reading through the posts I've missed in the 3 weeks I've been sans internet. PS: I still don't have internet, I'm sitting in McD's

[Rose]

The draw for me is that it seems like a decently paying job that doesn't have very high requirements other than the ability to drive a truck and pay attention to the road for long periods of time.

[Levi]

pay attention to the road for long periods of time.

Seems like a high requirement to me.  I don't think I could do it. 

[Skyrunner]

Trucking sounds boring to me :c

[Sirus]

The draw for me is that it seems like a decently paying job that doesn't have very high requirements other than the ability to drive a truck and pay attention to the road for long periods of time.

Trust me when I say there's much more than that, just like with any job. Driving a 40+ ton, 60-foot-long vehicle for any length of time can be stressful, especially in heavy traffic or on narrow city streets. That length and weight, combined with the pivot point where the tractor and trailer meet, makes a truck radically different to maneuver than a standard car. You have to deal with an incredible number of people who seem to think such vehicle is perfectly capable of stopping and turning on a dime and will act accordingly.

While you're not expected to know how to take apart the engine, and some companies do more work on their vehicles than others, you still have to know how to identify problems and perform basic maintenance. A breakdown can leave you stranded for a week or more, and you often don't get paid for that time. If you get inspected by the DoT and they find a problem, you can not only put you out of service until fixed but also charge a huge fine.

As MrSparky said, your opportunities for entertainment can be limited. You will likely be limited to whatever truck stop you rest at for the night and whatever is in walking distance, since a tractor/trailer is often banned from parking elsewhere unless broken down and a lot of parking lots aren't built to accommodate trucks anyway. Your living quarters are smaller than the average restroom and have no facilities of their own, so that can be another problem if you have a phobia of public bathrooms.

ALL THAT SAID, I'm still enjoying it for the most part and you might too. Just trying to show that it isn't all about cruising the freeways at 70 miles per hour

Trucking sounds boring to me :c

It's not for everyone :/

[Greiger]

So those truckers with the big United on the side of their trailers that come off I-95 to stop at the local Wendy's and take up all the parking spots aren't supposed to do that huh?  Learn something new every day.

There's an invention idea for you though.  A tiny little one person supercompact electric minicar between the truck and the trailer, that when parked can be deployed out from the truck to let you drive around to find a parking spot at a local Houligan's while yer partner is stuck watching the truck at the truck stop.

It's genius!  I'll let you submit it to the proper folks, I would just like 2% of the profits.

[Frumple]

bloody christ there's a three million word mass effect fanfic

it apparently took 21 months to write

what is this madness

it has firmly broken

capitalization

and length

ahhh

[Dutchling]

I'm willing to bet that at least one million of those words are either 'penis' or 'boobies'.

[Sirus]

So those truckers with the big United on the side of their trailers that come off I-95 to stop at the local Wendy's and take up all the parking spots aren't supposed to do that huh?  Learn something new every day.

There's an invention idea for you though.  A tiny little one person supercompact electric minicar between the truck and the trailer, that when parked can be deployed out from the truck to let you drive around to find a parking spot at a local Houligan's while yer partner is stuck watching the truck at the truck stop.

It's genius!  I'll let you submit it to the proper folks, I would just like 2% of the profits.

Unless the Wendy's is part of a truck stop and the parking spaces are 70 feet long, probably not.

In between the tractor and trailer is where the air lines, electrical cable, and catwalk go, and that space gets awfully cramped when you have to jacknife your trailer. They won't even allow you to stick a bicycle back there. Nice idea though