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@gaytruckerthoughts
states we've been to or through on this job in color
minus a couple. we're doing the lower 48 because this truck can't swim or intrude on canadia. this truck specifically pissed off a mountie one time and now when you try to drive to alaska the brakes automatically engage
my chair is still breathing noisily. it mocks me
mystery solved! valkyrie figured it out. it's not a bug, it's a feature. there is a button on the seats that makes them do breathing motions. valkyrie likes it. it feels like a massage instead of an uncanny abomination. different strokes
my chair is still breathing noisily. it mocks me
(first day riding shotgun in the new volvo brand big rig)
me: ...okay, this is going to sound insane, but it feels like my chair is breathing
valkyrie: oh my god i'm so glad you said something!! because sometimes at night it sounds like something is breathing in that area, and I could not figure out what! i thought i was losing my mind
(the pneumatic lumbar support in the chair is busted and keeps changing pressure. it feels very uncanny)
just taking some cargo to the company yard
hopping on the trip in the middle of the week now that all the reed-friendly bedding is back in the truck!
julian is so happy. just the happiest little guy. he made me biscuits
same gig, new rig!
we got valkyrie swapped from our cascadia into a volvo. full review of the company volvo truck situation coming soon (spoiler: it's an upgrade)
the old tractor had been sitting in a garage for a long time. the company finally had it driven to our yard since the rental place had weird weekend hours and it was really difficult to pull off the move on valkyrie's days off
there was a lot of old food to throw out and a lot of stuff to sort though. but after moving trucks a few times we have a system and always make sure we take turns triple checking every nook and cranny to make sure nothing important gets left behind
we are going for a minimalist approach this time and just taking enough food, kitty supplies, and clothes for the work week (plus a little extra,since you never know when a five day regional trucking work week will turn into an emergency involving spending extra nights in hotels or in a highway turnout) instead of staying stocked up as though we're still houseless and doing otr and might not see a grocery store for a whole month
example of how living on the road can be expensive: i keep a pair of scissors in my overhead compartment for the passenger seat. sometimes i would search through the whole thing, not find it, and end up assuming that it had fallen into the trash can below while we were moving at some point. very sad but no point in crying over spilled scissors. so i get another pair when i can. there were 3 whole pairs in that friggin cubby. (apply this pattern to almost any belonging, while trying to fit your whole life into a very small space. also, everything rattles around and migrates from where you left it)
jules misses me when he's out on the road, but he's so happy to get bonding time alone with valkyrie. literally disgustingly happy. he's a very gross little guy
julian says everything out in the coastal oregon woods is looking correct
and believe me, he would say if it wasn't
summertime in the pacific northwest
near golden beach, oregon
"It doesn't help your credibility to exaggerate, most employers wouldn't literally work you to death" like, I used to work in distribution. If booking a truck driver for back to back shifts until they fall asleep at the wheel, crash, and die counts as being worked to death, I have personally met employers who've worked employees to death and gotten away with a slap on the wrist. It may not be universal, but it's a hell of a lot more common than a lot of us would prefer to think.
The FAA had to explicitly make rules about how long pilots have to have off between shifts, and how far away from their home you can pin their home airport, because it doesn't mean shit that someone has 10 hours between shifts if they have a 2 hour commute each way. They had to make these rules because multiple passenger airplanes crashed because the pilots were exhausted from tight scheduling. Employers won't just work you to death, they'll take a hundred random customers with you.
Happy belated Workers’ Memorial Day, celebrated April 28th
osha rules are written in blood
he's so helpful and employed. he deserves to take a load off at the end of the week
graffiti discourse is so stupid why the hell would I give a shit if people spraypaint their names or do some cool paintings under a bridge
sorry didn't realize the bridge has to be plain beige concrete. that was a load bearing plain beige concrete if anyone tags it the whole bridge collapses
@woozymitts YES! this is my favorite!!!
relevant because we see so many moving art galleries, especially in oregon and washington where so many roads and train tracks follow parallel to various bodies of water
I’m shitting at these tags
yea this is Montreal, do you want to know how bad Montreal drivers are? only on the island of Montreal, is it illegal to make a right turn on a red light. because they don’t fucking look. it’s the only place I’ve ever been that has lost it’s “turning on a red light” privilege
but yea powdered snow is slippery af and the island is hilly and full of narrow streets. not designed for wheeled vehicles.
I need to reblog myself because I just found this on the gov of Quebec’s website
I don’t think people who have never had to live with the reality of freezing rain can even begin to comprehend the sheer incapacitating horror of it. It has got to be the worst kind of weather I’ve personally experienced.
That being said, what everyone is saying about Montréal drivers is true, never, never drive here if you can possibly avoid it.
i like the part where the buses smooch
i'll be honest thinking about las vegas makes me nauseous.
like this shouldnt be possible.
Every part of Vegas feels like it's pulled out of fiction and is Incredibly off-putting. It's a major city in the middle of one of the world's most inhospitable deserts
Its famous for recreating other world landmarks on a small scale. It uses this as a trap to bait people into making life ruining decisions. It's motto is essentially "never speak of what happened here". Fucked up
driving through las vegas is also weird because you really get a sense of how unnaturally placed and manmade it is:
desert ...
lots of random haunted construction sites and huge, empty looking warehouses ...
city. activity. traffic. ads. shiny buildings. traffic construction. hodgepodge structures. oddly curvy roads. sunlight or city lights reflecting off all the different colored glass buildings. nobody working at the traffic construction sites even though it seems like there should be for the time of year and the equipment present.
... more, almost identical random haunted construction sites and huge, empty looking warehouses to bracket the other side of however you drove in ...
... desert
it's like that both ways we've driven through it. like a weird construction sandwich. made weirder by how you don't see many actual humans outside doing things, only vehicles.
and everywhere around in all directions, just lonely little business plazas built around truck stops. and the occasional us armory depot trying to look unsuspecting, but is actually very obvious and kind of creepy
like... imagine: place to stop for emergency fuel and water and a chain store sandwich as you trek across the desert.. just sand .. random decrepit abandoned rv.. more sand.. then: city
