Question for all of me sister drivers.
First are you out to your company? Do you feal you are not given the routes or mileage because you are out?
Question for all of me sister drivers.
First are you out to your company? Do you feal you are not given the routes or mileage because you are out?
Not out. Usually get the miles I need, but because of my unique abilities, I am sometimes "held in reserve".
Tanker yanker with Canadian specialty carrier.
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i'm a flat bed driver and i am not out to my company. i do dress in privet in the truck. so i get my miles most of the time
I wasn't out before I retired and I got to pick my runs daily so I got my mileage no matter what, being top of the seniority list had its perks.
Serious truckers will probably say this doesn't count but when I drove it was overnight and intrastate. Six nights a week, 500+ miles per night. The auto parts stores were obviously closed so I had keys and alarm codes. Never ran into anyone so I got to wear whatever tickled my fancy. I was tickled often.
What about the cc cameras? Did the stores ever say anything?
Tracy I drove an auto parts truck for about a year and delivered in KY, WVa ,Tenn and Ohio.
It was a great job and I had keys to all the stores too.
Picking up big truck and mining equipment starter cores was the hardest part of that job.
My new girl is actually a OTR driver. I did my 20, and another 8 in dispatch. Been at a Walmart Store for 2 years now. Seriously thinking about getting back on the truck and teaming with my Lady. She has been out there for 4 years. She depends on GPS for everything, I pretty much just know my way from Michigan to points South West which is what she runs. Been up and down US-54 and the I-44 > I-40 route more times than I care to remember. I left trucking mainly because I was tired of being alone, but having her in my life now changes all of that. Besides Walmart is getting old quick, the seat has always been home. I will for sure dress when on the truck when the mood strikes me but I seriously doubt I would tell my company. Unless I deal with receivers dressed, I don't think it's any of their business.
I wished I'd have thought about CD'ing when I was OTR.
Do any of you you that dress when driving worry about going into truck stops dressed or do you undress and get drab each time you refuel or stop to eat? I would think other truckers would harass a dresser because most of them that I know are big burly type guys or seem to be that way. I will say though that most of them have all ways been friendly when my wife and I stop to eat at the truck stops.
Jaylyn most truck drivers are just like you they have families and to assume drivers are likely to harass you is wrong.
Truck drivers tend to be free spirits and they have to be to be alone for long periods of time so when someone is being different (dressing for example) they "get it" and just leave them alone. I can't tell you how many CDing drivers I have seen in my days.
Truck drivers are nice people just doing a thankless job that most people couldn't do.
Truck drivers can be bone headed jack asses just like in any profession. 99% are really nice people.
I spent 40 + years on the road so I have plenty of experience on this subject.LOL
Owned my own trucks (3),drove for other owners and for 25 years one retail grocery chain.
Never dressed enfemme on the job but wore womens jeans and tops quite often just because I liked them.
When I worked for the grocery chain I had to wear a uniform but there were panties under them most of the time.
Last edited by Tracii G; 05-05-2018 at 10:26 AM.
I would at first until I got a good set of forms. Now it depends on the truck stop. Some of them know me in guy form and some I don't go to much. So it doesn't matter to me in those.
Interesting topic. Never did OTR, but spent many night hauling field to plan from field to plant. Every employer is different, but my guess is that your reception on he road will be like mine. Most people never give you a second look...the few that do are interested and enjoy talking.
Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.
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I always had fun on the CB radio cutting up with other drivers.
Had a Galaxy 77v radio with the voice changer and that was always fun at shippers.
Call into the guard shack with the voice changer sounding like a girl and roll in looking like a guy.
I enjoyed being by myself not tied to an office.
Wyominggal, I wouldn't worry about the cameras. I retired from a 25 year career selling electronic security equipment. These camera systems are recording 24 hours a day automatically. If they kept all the video data they would run out of hard drive space very soon, so generally they record over the previous video after a set period of time . For the most part, unless there is an incident, or a lawsuit, no one ever looks at them.
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Every year I drive I40 from Amarillo TX to Kingman AZ and I often wonder about the truck drivers and whether the one in the truck I am overtaking or being overtaken by, is dressed. Just a little thought that helps the miles go by.
So true. I talked to nobody and saw nobody almost every night. Road Dog Trucking (channel 146) from midnight to 4:00 am was my best friend. Lol
Store managers are busy getting ready for the day and near minimum wage employees could care less about watching overnight video of an empty store.
Security footage is only there if something goes wrong so I felt fairly comfortable delivering rotors and gas tanks in a dress.
Wasn't out to company. Drove nights so that I could dress without being seen + I didn't have to worry about finding a parking spot.
I am a otr driver. I am not out to the company I drive for but have been seen by fellow drivers with the company. I also tend to undress when I have to do much outside the truck. But that all depends on my level of dressed.
OTR from Yukon to Mexico border and coast to coast. I drive with forms, wig, earring and usually in girl jeans(i like the stretch fit). About the only time I take off wig and forms is at the border and buying fuel.
I am a rubbish truck driver, I collect house hold rubbish with side arm compactor truck.
I am not out to co workers, and can not dress always interacting with the public.
just underwear and don't want to get my nice clothes dirty when at the dump either
the company I worked for got a great idea and put camera's in the truck the first one was looking out the the front but then they decided humm we need to see what the driver is doing. so they put another camera facing toward the driver. They could look at me anytime they wanted and they did. Greenroads was the system they went with and talk about a POS had a sensor mounted under the dash tell everybody if you where speeding, quick turns, sudden stops, to wide of a turn,out of lane, It would pick up stuff you didn't do got to a point where I told my boss after a talk we had about my driving and I told him to stick it and I drove and didn't give a shit what came up on my report.
so very happy to be home babysitting the grandson (1yr now)
If you can't laugh and have fun you might as well go home.
The company I retired from had the black boxes so in case of an accident all the info was there.
They could tell if you made hard stops or turned a corner too hard and monitored your speed.
We had electronic logs too and I learned on the very early versions you could bypass the onboard chip or manually shut down the entire system and run a s fast as you wanted.
The newest E log system we had was said to be fool proof but there were tricks you could do entering info so again very simple to get around.
I pulled a 74 hour week once and my log print out was totally correct and my driving times/ on duty times were at their limit and still legal. That drove my transportation manager crazy because he thought his E log machines were infallible.
Not long after that they went to a mileage based pay system with stop pay and down time pay.