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  1. 09-10-2009 05:20 PM #21
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    Quote Originally Posted by Styleten View Post
    I'd like to get some numbers to make my own imaginary averages so i turn to you folks here on the forum for information.
    Please take a moment to chime in with some experience.
    Uhm....this is the trucking industry. It's not a 9 to 5 job where when you clock out, you go home to the wife and kids afterwards. You eat, sleep, and live in your truck and shower in truck stops and company terminals. Personally, I generally work as many hours as I'm lawfully allowed to work and drive as many miles as I legally can during that time allotted.
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  2. 09-10-2009 06:12 PM #22
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    Quote Originally Posted by belpre122 View Post
    Heh heh.....Waaaayyyyyy toooooooo many of the apologist/hero types languishing around aren't there Useless?

    LOL Seems to me that not a single person in the Armed Forces ever served as a REMF....................

    They're all mostly full of ****. They degrade those who took the plunge and served (serve) as special forces elements of the US military.

    They have hidden behind anonymity (supposed) because of the inherent problems/delay with obtaining military records from the US Government. Not much longer though.....................ARPERCEN (Army Personel Center St. Louis) and the other branches to follow will be fully automated/digitized and completely online. Asswipe that served as a mail clerk in Vietnam and claims to have "wiped out everthing on the Ho Chi Minh Trail"................will be exposed for the asswipe that he/she is.

    Thus, Useless.................maybe we will be blessed with hearing less of the US Navy SEALS/ARMY Delta Force/Air Force Para rescue BULL**** stories.

    They're a dime a dozen.

    I actually knew a driver who was in Special Forces in Vietnam...... had a bunch of those "Nam" stories to tell.... only problem was that he was only a little over a year older than me, and U.S. involvement in Vietnam ended when I was 14 y/o!!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Useless View Post
    I actually knew a driver who was in Special Forces in Vietnam...... had a bunch of those "Nam" stories to tell.... only problem was that he was only a little over a year older than me, and U.S. involvement in Vietnam ended when I was 14 y/o!!
    You must have been sitting at the counter
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    Quote Originally Posted by Glad Hand View Post
    Uhm....this is the trucking industry. It's not a 9 to 5 job where when you clock out, you go home to the wife and kids afterwards. You eat, sleep, and live in your truck and shower in truck stops and company terminals. Personally, I generally work as many hours as I'm lawfully allowed to work and drive as many miles as I legally can during that time allotted.
    Personally, I generally work as many hours as I'm lawfully allowed to work and drive as many miles as I legally can during that time allotted.

    and you call yourself a truck driver!!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Useless View Post

    I'm an imaginary local driver, so I imagine that I do count. I drive an imaginary 2010 KW379. I haul Haz-Mat ping-pong balls, and I drive an imaginary 3500 miles each week, in a 32 hour week, at $38. per hour, + $2.74 cents per imaginary mile + expenses, including the cost of lot lizards!!
    Including what?!?


    OK. Here is a dumb question. I aint no mongaloid, and I aint no rookie, but what are Ping-Pong balls?


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    Quote Originally Posted by Jackrabbit379 View Post

    OK. Here is a dumb question. I aint no mongaloid, and I aint no rookie, but what are Ping-Pong balls?
    They are what separates male Ping-Pongs from female ones!
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    OK. Here is a dumb question. I aint no mongaloid, and I aint no rookie, but what are Ping-Pong balls?

    They are what separates male Ping-Pongs from female ones!

    LOL! Good one, golfhobo. BOL
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    Quote Originally Posted by golfhobo View Post
    They are what separates male Ping-Pongs from female ones!


    That's a good one, hobo. 10-4.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Useless View Post
    I actually knew a driver who was in Special Forces in Vietnam...... had a bunch of those "Nam" stories to tell.... only problem was that he was only a little over a year older than me, and U.S. involvement in Vietnam ended when I was 14 y/o!!
    Happens all the time Useless. I can't tell you how many times I've sufferred through similar tales.

    Is it just me? Or does it appear that the Armed Forces community must have some sort of secret program whereas:

    You separate from the military special forces and go straight to coolie carrier OTR truck driving?

    I dunno. Must be something going on here.
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    I went about 2400 miles last week in 46.5 hrs
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    Quote Originally Posted by Useless View Post
    I imagine I could get you one, but I don't imagine it would do you any good, Repete!! I imagine the reason it pays so well is because I handle HazMat ping-pong balls and secret classified government freight. I imagine that I got this job because of my Top Secret Security Clearance that I got back when I was a Navy SEAL while serving in the US Army in Vietnam.
    sounds right up my ally Back in Nam I used to haul the tunnels for closer examenation after you seals dug em out. I bet we even ran into each other!!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jackrabbit379 View Post

    OK. Here is a dumb question. I aint no mongaloid, and I aint no rookie, but what are Ping-Pong balls?


    Don't ask, Jackrabbit379...

    I'm severely dyslexic, and with my 007 Intelligence Classification, if I told you, then I'd have to KILL myself!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Styleten View Post
    I'd like to get some numbers to make my own imaginary averages so i turn to you folks here on the forum for information.
    Please take a moment to chime in with some experience.
    From the house to the office/yard is 22 miles roundtrip x 5 = 110 miles...
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  15. 09-11-2009 01:33 PM #35
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    Quote Originally Posted by repete View Post
    sounds right up my ally Back in Nam I used to haul the tunnels for closer examenation after you seals dug em out. I bet we even ran into each other!!
    So, REPETE;

    Was that YOU I was talking to at the Petro Coffee Counter??

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    Quote Originally Posted by Useless View Post


    Don't ask, Jackrabbit379...

    I'm severely dyslexic, and with my 007 Intelligence Classification, if I told you, then I'd have to KILL myself!!



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    Quote Originally Posted by Glad Hand View Post
    Uhm....this is the trucking industry. It's not a 9 to 5 job where when you clock out, you go home to the wife and kids afterwards. You eat, sleep, and live in your truck and shower in truck stops and company terminals. Personally, I generally work as many hours as I'm lawfully allowed to work and drive as many miles as I legally can during that time allotted.
    Maybe for you it isn't.

    I personally don't care how many miles I drive per week, since I don't get paid by that mileage scam. I care more about hours per week, usually between 40-60.
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    ~1200 miles a week

    47-53 hours
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    about 1,000 miles a week. 55-60 hours work week
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    Quote Originally Posted by jd112488 View Post
    what is a 40 hour week??
    That is an office job!

    There are very few 40 hr work weeks in trucking, even if you drive local, which I do. I average 50-55 hrs a week, Monday thru Friday, about 1500 miles, pulling vans and flats.

    I love being home every night, OTR gets old after awhile.
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