Truck Driving Jobs

Mackman · #1 05-10-2009, 03:57 AM

YouTube - Crazy Ass Truck Driver

This guy really beats that old mack. But it just goes to show mack will take a beating and ask for more.

YouTube - Old mack giving it hell

YouTube - mack dump truck

I posted some of these videos so some of you OTR guys can see how dump trucks take a beating. An OTR truck has an easy life.

This is a video of milling and paving. The company i work for does alot of trucking for another company that does nothing but milling and paving so i get stuck alot doing it. Paving is easy but milling can be a PITA sometimes. If you go to fast it shoots on your tailgate go to slow and the miller hits your truck. Also your left leg wants to fall off when your done. In the lowest gear in my truck it is still to fast so that means i am pushing in the clutch and letting it out alot.
YouTube - Asphalt Removal & Repaving

Phantom433a · #2 05-10-2009, 04:55 AM

been there, done that.....you can keep it. when you only work 4 days a months....no thanks.....an my otr truck has been off road plenty of times picking up flagstone in quarries here in northern az.

Mackman · #3 05-10-2009, 05:05 AM

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Originally Posted by Phantom433a

been there, done that.....you can keep it. when you only work 4 days a months....no thanks.....an my otr truck has been off road plenty of times picking up flagstone in quarries here in northern az.

Thats one of the things that suck about dump trucks is the weather. You have to work around the weather. Over all i like dump trucks if you could work everyday. But even with all the days off i have and being laid off in the winter i still gross 41k. Which i still dont think is too bad.

Also quarries are easy off road . They are made for trucks to go to to pick stuff up. Try taking a load of stone back in the woods were your the 1st truck to go. :thumbsup:

There is a reason dump trucks are double framed got bigger axles and low gears. I see tractors made in to dump trucks and they just dont last at all. They are made to light to handle the work.

They are just two different types of trucks for two different type of jobs

got mud? · #4 05-11-2009, 04:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Mackman

Thats one of the things that suck about dump trucks is the weather. You have to work around the weather. Over all i like dump trucks if you could work everyday. But even with all the days off i have and being laid off in the winter i still gross 41k. Which i still dont think is too bad.

Also quarries are easy off road . They are made for trucks to go to to pick stuff up. Try taking a load of stone back in the woods were your the 1st truck to go. :thumbsup:

There is a reason dump trucks are double framed got bigger axles and low gears. I see tractors made in to dump trucks and they just dont last at all. They are made to light to handle the work.

They are just two different types of trucks for two different type of jobs

your point?

Ford390pwr · #5 05-11-2009, 06:49 PM

Dump Trucks are a lot of fun!

When I was a kid I would spend the entire summer in my dad's dump truck. We would go to some pretty wild places, of course he took care of his truck so I never saw any crazy s**t like that. We lived in FL so he could have worked 24/7/365.

Once I moved to the west coast, i saw some pretty wild dump trucks. Nothing like what dad had!

This looks a LOT like one of my dads old trucks (His was a tri-axle instead of a tandem):

Here is a Dump Truck similar to the ones in the NW:

Mackman · #6 05-11-2009, 07:52 PM

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Originally Posted by got mud?

your point?

My point was for you to STFU

thanks

Mackman · #7 05-11-2009, 07:54 PM

Ford390 then dump trucks out west are goofy as hell. I don't understand them at all. It must be them messed up bridge laws or something out there.

Your right you do go to some wild places in dump trucks.

Orangetxguy · #8 05-11-2009, 09:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Mackman

Ford390 then dump trucks out west are goofy as hell. I don't understand them at all. It must be them messed up bridge laws or something out there.

Your right you do go to some wild places in dump trucks.

Nothing goofy about those dump trucks Mack. That pic he posted, is a 4-axle truck, pulling a 4-axle switch. In the pic, the truck was backed up to the switch, to transfer the tub onto the truck. They carry about 80,000 pounds of dirt with that set up. Gross out at 105,500 pounds....give or take.
Nice and easy way to haul lots of dirt, especially when you are paid by the cubic yard to haul.

matcat · #9 05-12-2009, 12:40 AM

I can with all honesty say those youtube vids in the OP did not impress me in any shape or form, watching some dump trucks go in reverse is not exactly amazing.

Mackman · #10 05-12-2009, 01:44 AM

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Originally Posted by matcat

I can with all honesty say those youtube vids in the OP did not impress me in any shape or form, watching some dump trucks go in reverse is not exactly amazing.

Well it was the way that driver was driving it. Going in soft stuff like that will tear your truck up quick. That guy would have been fired if i owned that truck. Thats why they have dozer's and trackhoes to move the dirt after you dump it.

I posted these videos just to show some people who never drove or worked around dump trucks just what type of beating they take. Also what type of places they have to go and the different type of work they do.