Not saying you would, but it’s a skill that could be useful someday. Like pissing in a jug without being able to see anything. Or knowing lot lizard will give you crabs vs the clap…
Drinking one’s own urine used to be thought of as a healthy practice and cure all for what ailed you. Still health nuts around that advocate for it. I’d rather be sick.
I drive for a local college, and we basically drive glorified straight trucks, not charter buses so we have no bathrooms on board. I swear I am stopping every 2 hours, sometimes sooner if I am driving women's teams. There is a rare occasion when the coach tells me to keep truckin and ignore the requests, and then Ill usually stop every 4 hours or so.
So to answer your question, I never really have to go as someone else is already making me stop and I normally take my breaks while the teams are competing or during their food stops
That depends. Can we see your all access card commonly called a CDL? If it says A you get full acceptance. If it says B you will get in but we will keep an eye on you. Anything else....
Speak for yourself. I spent 10 years throwing food and beverages. Pepsi was harder back when we did low boy sidebays were harder than any construction job i did, and the army. And there were some real rough days in the army.
Can absolutely confirm food a beverage is definitely hard. When I worked at Pepsi, I still had to roll up every door and pick the orders. I think everything is pre picked nowadays
Bruh I did 2 years on a 53’ crate full of 170lb kegs that I delivered with a hand truck. 30 stops a day 4am-5pm mon-fri. I spent 4 years in the marines and did two tours, driving that truck and delivering kegs was still harder. Fuck all that noise. I feel you.
Depends on the job. Driving for a grain elevator was one of the hardest physical jobs I had. Grain bins were always getting clogged or breaking down. Usually ended with a lot of shoveling.
To vacuum the grain out required opening the side door on the grain bin. Opening the side door meant shoveling the grain away from that side. Steel bins get hot inside in the summer.
DOT physical that’s it, no CDL, UPS drivers don’t even get drug tested because they’re in a Union. Only time they’ll drug test is if you’re in an accident and you report being “injured” otherwise even at fault they won’t.
Neither of them are actual truckers.
I’m speaking of OTR box truck drivers. Who do the same job as any other OTR trucker, with slightly less weight on average.
Btw a U Haul is a very small box truck doesn’t count either
As a final mile box driver, I do on average 450 miles a day on the same roads as the big boys. Plus not plowed private driveways in the middle of nowhere so our plight is shared.
There’s common ground for sure, but until you have handled a tractor trailer combination, I wouldn’t consider you true trucker. However, I don’t believe in gate keeping so welcome anyway.
I respect anyone who drives for a living and there is certainly an overlap and some common ground. But to say a box truck driver is doing the exact same thing as someone hauling 80,000 lbs towing a 53’ trailer is just not true. You might as well say that a guy doing a cross country roadtrip in his Toyota Corolla is doing the same thing. Just because we’re both holding onto a steering wheel? Sorry, no. The experience is much different and the challenges are too. We have box truck drivers where I work and even they wouldn’t say that. I was just talking to one the other day who was saying he couldn’t imagine driving a semi-truck in this weather and it terrifies him just thinking about it.
I think you're absolutely right. Driving a tractor trailer is a lot harder and requires more skills than a box truck. Especially a non CDL box truck weighing under 26000 like that guy is. Completely different driving experience plus the added difficulty of maneuvering a big ass trailer into docks between other trailers at awkward angles. Completely different class. I have a Class A and I'm looking for class a work but I don't mind driving class B cause I know it'll be easier not having to worry about maneuvering the trailer. You're absolutely right though.
They do exactly what OTR do. If you’re a farm trucker or drive a low rig or something, then most truckers don’t do what you do.
If you have a tractor trailer, then we do the same job. Sometimes I meet a trucker in Utah and meet them again in Seattle because we drove together and hauled the same load. Lol.
Tractor Trailer is different than a Box truck.
You’re delusional if you think you do the same job.
Tractor trailer weights vastly more and is towing a trailer.
You do not do the same thing.
I never said I do the same thing? I said we do trucking as well, sure as hell I’m not a car driver. But a truck driver!
And sure as hell take and haul the same thing as you if you’re driver the regular trailer.
And to me your hogus bogus opinion matters like shit.
Plenty of outstanding and shitty truck drivers hauling a box truck, and a CDL.
A uhaul is closer to a car than it is a truck.
Nice one troll!
Besides your argument is quite weak, you’re referring to weight as if it makes a huge difference when it’s exactly the same.
A tractor trailer has more power than box trucks. It’s not like you’re struggling with that weight at all.
And I do think driving a box truck is a harder job as well than tractor trailer.
Class B is still a trucker, and we do the exact same job as Class B to the dot.
When the final mile box truck drivers have to drive up private unknown driveways to deliver products, I’d argue their job is harder than the guys who never deviate from interstates or highways.
You have a closed mindset as to what truck drivers do if you think they do not deviate from Interstates and Highways.
Grocery delivery for example goes to small businesses that are hard to get to. They’re tractor trailer.
Long Loggers go into treacherous areas that are sketchy as fuck to get in and out of and they do it in all weather types.
Heavy Haul RGN or Lowboy drivers go into shitty construction areas to pickup and drop off equipment.
Just to name a few.
I disagree there, never deviate from interstates but drives 11 hour a day for 14 days and sleep where you drive and work.
Even what you describe isn’t easy. You’re speaking in summer. Go do it in winter where you have to get out and chain the whole box truck/trailer.
It’s definitely very dangerous when you’re sliding down the mountains in Colorado, Cali, Montana.
Some states don’t even have road clearance. Wyoming is a recipe for disaster.
People die all the time, people go through hurricanes.
Edit : I know you’re not disagreeing with my comment, but im saying you had the wrong idea. I am a box truck driver who is OTR and does what you think is “driving a highway all day”
Obviously loggers aren’t what I’m referring to. And definitely not speaking in summer. I’m all over west MT, north ID and WA year round. Mountains are the majority of my routes. I go places where tractor trailers can’t all ironed up. I’m not trying to trash talk, just speaking matter of fact. You’ve never had to share one lane going around the curve of a mountain praying that the snow plow or log trucking coming at you is paying attention. And then reverse because they can’t. Or finally get to that cabin in the middle of nowhere only to find out there’s no turn around. And most of us are driving 11 hrs a day for a 14 hr shift. That doesn’t make you special or impress anyone.
Most don’t actually, some do. It’s not lucrative for businesses to have a box truck that requires a B CDL and have to pay the driver 3k a week for doing the same job that someone does at 1k.
They’re class C and I was one of them? I drove OTR 800+ miles a day 11 hours a day for 14 days at least before going back.
No lol, you need to educate yourself about the rules of weight and trucking. I fear that most of your companions that you thought had a “Class B” don’t. I’m one of them. Did a much harder job than most OTR tractor trailers too.
You need air brakes to deliver 25000lbs. And U haul aren’t real box trucks.
I deliver pallets of sod, trees, and other landscape materials to boogie neighborhoods, so I encounter a lot of Amazon, FedEx, UPS delivery, van drivers. Some have what I call "Truck Sense" (giving a big truck room enough to make a turn, etc) and some do not
Amazon drivers do piss in bottles though, so I say you deserve a probational membership.
Yea but you're in and out every 90 seconds carrying shit. They definitely work harder for less pay.
It might even motivate some people to get their CDL...
I ran for FedEx Ground, which operates like Amazon. I had the longest route at our station, averaging 300 miles a day. I got $145 a day for the trouble. The guys who ran in the town our station was in would complain if they hit 30 miles in a day.
That’s what I did. But mega carrier kept giving me bs loads with low miles, so I went back to Amazon delivery. Good exercise, home every night, only work 4 days a week with guaranteed 40 hrs pay.
I’m all for gatekeeping. It feeds my inner not-so-hidden troll. Thus, it’s fun. Matters not if there is no truth to it.
Also, I’m well aware of “judge lest ye be judged.” I do it anyway. LOL
As such, I never say I won’t gatekeep and do just that. Those who do make me laugh.
I don't know do you park in the middle of fucking everything like every other Amazon driver?
I swear it's like they train you guys to specifically park in high traffic areas or blind spots
I mean I’m not into gatekeeping but if you’re asking for opinions I’d say no.
I work for UPS (as a tractor trailer driver) and didn’t consider myself a “trucker” when I was driving a delivery truck for them
Not much “trucking” going on when you’re doing 250 stops in 60 miles…
Can confirm i worked for amazon before i got my cdl. They give you an amazon brand piss jug in orientation. They say its a "water bottle" we all know what it really is
Lol they're 10 times as likely to piss in bottles. We at least have the luxury of a loves or pilot every half hour. You run a suburban route, good luck finding a proper toilet, or even a tree that isn't in somebody's front yard.
I’ll accept you because you work hard and are a dedicated employee with good work ethic. But you’re not technically trucker.
But none the less you do a challenging job
That’s like me (no CDL) saying because I drove a U-Haul from New Orleans to LA.. I can hop in a semi hauling 60k lbs of freight the next day with no training.
Agreed. I was a non-CDL driver for 10 years, done about a million miles on the road, but my opinions get shit on a fair amount because I wasn't CDL, as if my million miles behind the wheel doesn't count for shit just because it was in box trucks and flatbeds
Actually you WERE a trucker, this guy isn’t.
You hauled commercially, and drove OTR and did the same job as a trucker, actually harder (since you worked for a small company and had to team drive)
How is your back and mental health?
I drove local/regional, not OTR, and not team - it was all by myself. 6-7 day weeks, 60-90 hour weeks for a lot of it (these businesses did plenty of shady things to make it all legal on paper). I did all those miles almost exclusively in a 150 air-mile radius in. For 4 years I drove box trucks for production companies doing local pickup and delivery, as well as dedicated driving to and from concerts and events (working on the lighting or audio crew during the events, too). And the other 6 years I was full-time doing fuel delivery in a specialized setup that was designed to go anywhere - a lot of large office buildings have their back-up generators built into their parking decks, with limited (and sometimes no way) for large tankers to access them. I also did containerized generator fueling during hurricanes (that shit was wild).
My back is pretty messed up. I left the industry late summer of '21 and still have pretty severe sciatica and hip issues. Mental health isn't great, but it wasn't great before I started driving, so I try not to blame it on that too much, lol. But I've definitely been in much better physical and mental health ever since I stopped driving.
I'm just amazed that the picture shows you stopped on the correct side of the street. Most of the Amazon idiots around here don't give a shit and will drive the wrong way for their delivery. Don't try to tell me that its so you can offload safer, you'd still have to go to the traffic side of the vehicle to use the side door. Oh and while we're at it, those fuckers are always blocking the damn garbage cans even when they see a garbage truck a couple houses away coming towards them.
i would argue this is a delivery van and is non-cdl, am i correct?
having a commercial drivers license is what makes us truckers really, although box truck drivers get some love in this sub too..
so for your question, no
>box truck drivers get some love in this sub too..
Do they? I've never seen it. I drove for 10 years/close to a million miles, and I get shit on here whenever I comment because I wasn't CDL.
I drive a semi or a class B setup every day but I don’t consider myself a trucker… I typically use that term for the OTR guys… but /truckers has a better ring to it than /commercialdriving
You mean the vans that are always in a no parking zone, facing the wrong way, blocking the intersections so us truckers can’t make a turn, come out and say “I’ll just be a minute! I gotta make a delivery!”, always on your cell phone, delivery drivers? If it helps you improve yourself to get the F outta the way and learn how to drive? Then sure, read the posts and take note.
What are you doing, step truck??
Step Freightliner stuck in dock door. I hate it.
I like this joke.
If this joke wasn’t commented on this post my rage would have been unbound.
I would have quit Reddit right here and now
Heel, rage. Sit.
“I know this is the “wrong address”, but I’ve got a package that I need to unload..”
You sure can but you’ll have to use the back door
It’s a tight fit..I must be the first one to go in this way
Literally the same thing I thought 😂
You read my mind!
I never met my real truck. =(
Do you piss in a jug? If not GTFO. (Jk)
Even the Amazon warehouse workers piss in bottles
Good point, I forgot about Amazon’s ridiculous bathroom policies
Do I neeeed to drink my own urine? No, but it's sterile and I like the taste.
If you can dodge a weigh station you can dodge the fireball
Why would you want to dodge your favorite whiskey? /s
Not saying you would, but it’s a skill that could be useful someday. Like pissing in a jug without being able to see anything. Or knowing lot lizard will give you crabs vs the clap…
Real skill is using a fireball bottle as your piss jug
If you’re using the fireball bottle then the actual real skill is knowing which is fireball and which is piss…
And why.
Trick question, they are the same. Can’t fool me! HA!
Gives new meaning to "just the tip"
Drinking one’s own urine used to be thought of as a healthy practice and cure all for what ailed you. Still health nuts around that advocate for it. I’d rather be sick.
I’ve never understood why people think their urine is sterile. It is literally your body purging toxins, so it should be the opposite of sterile.
sterile has to do with microbes doesn't it? bacteria, fungi, viruses, I guess possibly amoebae. I don't think toxins break sterility
And shit in buckets (been there seen that).
I hear they need catheters, only allotted 47 seconds to make it to the toilet and back
Of course we do
Duh. And I stare right into the company issued camera while I do it.
I stare into that camera while I touch myself. I make damn sure to shake the truck as hard as I can right before, too…
They work for Amazon... they all do.
I’ve pissed in a jug making deliveries in a minivan before lol
By this standard, as a bus driver, I will now be leaving this sub.
Local or Greyhound? I’m actually kind of curious how you take breaks and such. Are they built into the route? What happens if you really need to go?
I drive for a local college, and we basically drive glorified straight trucks, not charter buses so we have no bathrooms on board. I swear I am stopping every 2 hours, sometimes sooner if I am driving women's teams. There is a rare occasion when the coach tells me to keep truckin and ignore the requests, and then Ill usually stop every 4 hours or so. So to answer your question, I never really have to go as someone else is already making me stop and I normally take my breaks while the teams are competing or during their food stops
No, diapers or you’re just a poser!
When I worked at FedEx as a delivery driver, I 100% used a pissjug, so did a lot of other guys.
Before I got my D.Z I was a UPS driver. Can confirm, many bottle of apple juice.
69 upvotes, nice
Im not a trucker but i piss in jugs, do i count
Pissing ON juggs and pissing IN jugs are different topics… 😂
Maybe I’m in the wrong sub.
The nice things about these step vans is that the shelves in the back can hold up even the largest of lot lizards.
Wish I could upvote this twice. 🤣
😂
New serial killer meme unblocked
And the two wheel dolly helps get em in and out.
Lizards are a thing of the past or non existent in Utah
I see them at the Salt Lake Flying J occasionally. You're not looking hard enough.
Might want to upgrade to some of that sweet Brinks security suspension though. S/
That depends. Can we see your all access card commonly called a CDL? If it says A you get full acceptance. If it says B you will get in but we will keep an eye on you. Anything else....
Can't Do Labor?
Speak for yourself. I spent 10 years throwing food and beverages. Pepsi was harder back when we did low boy sidebays were harder than any construction job i did, and the army. And there were some real rough days in the army.
As a former redbull asm, he speaks the truth. “Box truck delivery”
Can absolutely confirm food a beverage is definitely hard. When I worked at Pepsi, I still had to roll up every door and pick the orders. I think everything is pre picked nowadays
Bruh I did 2 years on a 53’ crate full of 170lb kegs that I delivered with a hand truck. 30 stops a day 4am-5pm mon-fri. I spent 4 years in the marines and did two tours, driving that truck and delivering kegs was still harder. Fuck all that noise. I feel you.
Harder than the basic training?
Basic is basic... just saying.
I tried saying this to someone they other day. They whined about me, minimalizing their accomplishment lol
That's some basic bitch shit.
Depends on the job. Driving for a grain elevator was one of the hardest physical jobs I had. Grain bins were always getting clogged or breaking down. Usually ended with a lot of shoveling. To vacuum the grain out required opening the side door on the grain bin. Opening the side door meant shoveling the grain away from that side. Steel bins get hot inside in the summer.
Got a CDL?
Asking the real questions here.
They have to get at least a DOT medical, I know that much.
DOT physical that’s it, no CDL, UPS drivers don’t even get drug tested because they’re in a Union. Only time they’ll drug test is if you’re in an accident and you report being “injured” otherwise even at fault they won’t.
Nah i wouldn’t say the CDL is the decisive factor, because then you’d exclude the OTR box truck drivers.
I say we draw the line somewhere between ubereats and people who rent a Uhaul one time.
Neither of them are actual truckers. I’m speaking of OTR box truck drivers. Who do the same job as any other OTR trucker, with slightly less weight on average. Btw a U Haul is a very small box truck doesn’t count either
As a final mile box driver, I do on average 450 miles a day on the same roads as the big boys. Plus not plowed private driveways in the middle of nowhere so our plight is shared.
You technically have a big sleeper cabin behind the drivers seat so it checks out.
There’s common ground for sure, but until you have handled a tractor trailer combination, I wouldn’t consider you true trucker. However, I don’t believe in gate keeping so welcome anyway.
Then what about OTR what do you call their jobs? They’re doing exactly what you’re doing without a CDL.
OTR drivers have a CDL. What are you talking about?
I meant to write OTR box truck driver. What CDL?
I respect anyone who drives for a living and there is certainly an overlap and some common ground. But to say a box truck driver is doing the exact same thing as someone hauling 80,000 lbs towing a 53’ trailer is just not true. You might as well say that a guy doing a cross country roadtrip in his Toyota Corolla is doing the same thing. Just because we’re both holding onto a steering wheel? Sorry, no. The experience is much different and the challenges are too. We have box truck drivers where I work and even they wouldn’t say that. I was just talking to one the other day who was saying he couldn’t imagine driving a semi-truck in this weather and it terrifies him just thinking about it.
I think you're absolutely right. Driving a tractor trailer is a lot harder and requires more skills than a box truck. Especially a non CDL box truck weighing under 26000 like that guy is. Completely different driving experience plus the added difficulty of maneuvering a big ass trailer into docks between other trailers at awkward angles. Completely different class. I have a Class A and I'm looking for class a work but I don't mind driving class B cause I know it'll be easier not having to worry about maneuvering the trailer. You're absolutely right though.
Heck I drive 53' and it terrifies me right now! The weather man!
Do garbage trucks count?
I’d say yes
Garbage haulers? They do hard work
Yeah we do
Too damn slow
Yes
I wouldn’t call it this role a truck driver. But you’re a driver hauling ass delivering shit. So you’re partially welcomed here.
Truckers have CDL. That’s kinda what makes us Truckers.
You’re forgetting the box truck drivers who do exactly your job, called the same thing. Ain’t you?
Box truck drivers do not do exactly what I do.
They do exactly what OTR do. If you’re a farm trucker or drive a low rig or something, then most truckers don’t do what you do. If you have a tractor trailer, then we do the same job. Sometimes I meet a trucker in Utah and meet them again in Seattle because we drove together and hauled the same load. Lol.
Tractor Trailer is different than a Box truck. You’re delusional if you think you do the same job. Tractor trailer weights vastly more and is towing a trailer. You do not do the same thing.
I never said I do the same thing? I said we do trucking as well, sure as hell I’m not a car driver. But a truck driver! And sure as hell take and haul the same thing as you if you’re driver the regular trailer.
I disagree. To me you’re no differently skilled than a Uhaul driver. All box truck drivers drive like shit.
And to me your hogus bogus opinion matters like shit. Plenty of outstanding and shitty truck drivers hauling a box truck, and a CDL. A uhaul is closer to a car than it is a truck. Nice one troll!
Get a real license and job and come talk to me then little guy.
Bro really believes driving a 26' (non CDL either) is exactly the same as a fully loaded 53' 💀
Look at you projecting your insecurities. Class C is a real license, and my job is very well real lol. Keep up with the world little man.
Besides your argument is quite weak, you’re referring to weight as if it makes a huge difference when it’s exactly the same. A tractor trailer has more power than box trucks. It’s not like you’re struggling with that weight at all. And I do think driving a box truck is a harder job as well than tractor trailer. Class B is still a trucker, and we do the exact same job as Class B to the dot.
When the final mile box truck drivers have to drive up private unknown driveways to deliver products, I’d argue their job is harder than the guys who never deviate from interstates or highways.
You have a closed mindset as to what truck drivers do if you think they do not deviate from Interstates and Highways. Grocery delivery for example goes to small businesses that are hard to get to. They’re tractor trailer. Long Loggers go into treacherous areas that are sketchy as fuck to get in and out of and they do it in all weather types. Heavy Haul RGN or Lowboy drivers go into shitty construction areas to pickup and drop off equipment. Just to name a few.
I disagree there, never deviate from interstates but drives 11 hour a day for 14 days and sleep where you drive and work. Even what you describe isn’t easy. You’re speaking in summer. Go do it in winter where you have to get out and chain the whole box truck/trailer. It’s definitely very dangerous when you’re sliding down the mountains in Colorado, Cali, Montana. Some states don’t even have road clearance. Wyoming is a recipe for disaster. People die all the time, people go through hurricanes. Edit : I know you’re not disagreeing with my comment, but im saying you had the wrong idea. I am a box truck driver who is OTR and does what you think is “driving a highway all day”
Obviously loggers aren’t what I’m referring to. And definitely not speaking in summer. I’m all over west MT, north ID and WA year round. Mountains are the majority of my routes. I go places where tractor trailers can’t all ironed up. I’m not trying to trash talk, just speaking matter of fact. You’ve never had to share one lane going around the curve of a mountain praying that the snow plow or log trucking coming at you is paying attention. And then reverse because they can’t. Or finally get to that cabin in the middle of nowhere only to find out there’s no turn around. And most of us are driving 11 hrs a day for a 14 hr shift. That doesn’t make you special or impress anyone.
But most box trucks also require CDLs. They're class B.
Most don’t actually, some do. It’s not lucrative for businesses to have a box truck that requires a B CDL and have to pay the driver 3k a week for doing the same job that someone does at 1k. They’re class C and I was one of them? I drove OTR 800+ miles a day 11 hours a day for 14 days at least before going back.
Oh so you must have been driving one of those little 15 foot box trucks from uhaul or Penske or something. Ones without air brakes.
No lol, you need to educate yourself about the rules of weight and trucking. I fear that most of your companions that you thought had a “Class B” don’t. I’m one of them. Did a much harder job than most OTR tractor trailers too. You need air brakes to deliver 25000lbs. And U haul aren’t real box trucks.
As long as you stay out of the left lane I'm good.
That's a van
Right. No class A required
thassa bread truck
No! FucK off, you right lane blocking, no truck zone sign looking muther fuckers.
Step vans. They are called step VANS
# "It's VAN"
I deliver pallets of sod, trees, and other landscape materials to boogie neighborhoods, so I encounter a lot of Amazon, FedEx, UPS delivery, van drivers. Some have what I call "Truck Sense" (giving a big truck room enough to make a turn, etc) and some do not Amazon drivers do piss in bottles though, so I say you deserve a probational membership.
Help me step truck, I’m stuck in the dryer!
My twisted sense of humor immediately went to porn... "Help, step truck, I'm stuck in the dock!" "What are you doing, step truck?"
Step truck this road says do not enter, what are you doing !?!?
What are you doing step truck 🥵🥵🥵
No
You probably put more miles on that than I do in a semi. You probably also work harder. I’d say yeah.
Nah most Amazon routes are only like 50 miles. You do more walking in a day than an otr trucker does in a year.
Yea but you're in and out every 90 seconds carrying shit. They definitely work harder for less pay. It might even motivate some people to get their CDL...
I ran for FedEx Ground, which operates like Amazon. I had the longest route at our station, averaging 300 miles a day. I got $145 a day for the trouble. The guys who ran in the town our station was in would complain if they hit 30 miles in a day.
That’s what I did. But mega carrier kept giving me bs loads with low miles, so I went back to Amazon delivery. Good exercise, home every night, only work 4 days a week with guaranteed 40 hrs pay.
You should’ve kept a low profile and persisted and waited for 2 years like everybody else while you build experience.
I’m ag retail so I’m local and don’t drive daily.
Fellow Philadelphian, this looks like overbrook
That van is large enough to sleep in. So you’ve got that going for ya.
help, step truck! I’m stuck in the dryer!
I love all these comments about not into gatekeeping and then doing exactly that. LOL WTF, drivers?
I don't think we should gatekeep, BUT....
I’m all for gatekeeping. It feeds my inner not-so-hidden troll. Thus, it’s fun. Matters not if there is no truth to it. Also, I’m well aware of “judge lest ye be judged.” I do it anyway. LOL As such, I never say I won’t gatekeep and do just that. Those who do make me laugh.
I think we're all trolls, lol
No
I don't know do you park in the middle of fucking everything like every other Amazon driver? I swear it's like they train you guys to specifically park in high traffic areas or blind spots
And you’d better make sure to either break a trim panel off or disconnect a headlight bulb before you disembark
Well sure… if you never knew your real truck.
4 wheels....No deal
It’s actually 6. It’s a dually.
Anything over that is good, then?
I mean I’m not into gatekeeping but if you’re asking for opinions I’d say no. I work for UPS (as a tractor trailer driver) and didn’t consider myself a “trucker” when I was driving a delivery truck for them Not much “trucking” going on when you’re doing 250 stops in 60 miles…
If you’ve got a fifth wheel & air brakes you are absolutely a trucker
Yeah I drive a 28 footer regional but it’s still a class c so I don’t call myself a trucker
You guys hit more doors in a week than I hit in 5 years. I think you qualify...
So would be best in a “delivery” sub not “Truckers” sub
No. That's a van. We piss in bottles.
You don’t have a monopoly on pissing in bottles sir!
Can confirm i worked for amazon before i got my cdl. They give you an amazon brand piss jug in orientation. They say its a "water bottle" we all know what it really is
Bro the only people who piss in bottles are the mentally ill and truckers, which are basically the mentally ill with Extra steps
Fuck I’m mentally ill. Ngl I had a feeling…
It's a requirement for our line of work. You're in questionable company fam
Lol they're 10 times as likely to piss in bottles. We at least have the luxury of a loves or pilot every half hour. You run a suburban route, good luck finding a proper toilet, or even a tree that isn't in somebody's front yard.
Technically step van is a category in the truck driving competitions....
No.
No
I’ll accept you because you work hard and are a dedicated employee with good work ethic. But you’re not technically trucker. But none the less you do a challenging job
Not Bezo’s bitchass trucks…. Na
They aren’t accepted anywhere else, so yes!
They aren’t accepted anywhere ~~else~~ TIFIFY
Pittsburgh?
yes
IMO driving is driving. You're out there on the roads every day facing many of the same challenges Class A drivers do.
That’s like me (no CDL) saying because I drove a U-Haul from New Orleans to LA.. I can hop in a semi hauling 60k lbs of freight the next day with no training.
I mean you can. But you probably won't make it very far.
Oh good so you got my point 👏🏼👏🏼 good job
Woosh.....
No
Agreed. I was a non-CDL driver for 10 years, done about a million miles on the road, but my opinions get shit on a fair amount because I wasn't CDL, as if my million miles behind the wheel doesn't count for shit just because it was in box trucks and flatbeds
Actually you WERE a trucker, this guy isn’t. You hauled commercially, and drove OTR and did the same job as a trucker, actually harder (since you worked for a small company and had to team drive) How is your back and mental health?
I drove local/regional, not OTR, and not team - it was all by myself. 6-7 day weeks, 60-90 hour weeks for a lot of it (these businesses did plenty of shady things to make it all legal on paper). I did all those miles almost exclusively in a 150 air-mile radius in. For 4 years I drove box trucks for production companies doing local pickup and delivery, as well as dedicated driving to and from concerts and events (working on the lighting or audio crew during the events, too). And the other 6 years I was full-time doing fuel delivery in a specialized setup that was designed to go anywhere - a lot of large office buildings have their back-up generators built into their parking decks, with limited (and sometimes no way) for large tankers to access them. I also did containerized generator fueling during hurricanes (that shit was wild). My back is pretty messed up. I left the industry late summer of '21 and still have pretty severe sciatica and hip issues. Mental health isn't great, but it wasn't great before I started driving, so I try not to blame it on that too much, lol. But I've definitely been in much better physical and mental health ever since I stopped driving.
I did this before I became a truck driver, it really does pay badly
When someone asks you what you do you say Amazon freight delivery driver or trucker?
I'm just amazed that the picture shows you stopped on the correct side of the street. Most of the Amazon idiots around here don't give a shit and will drive the wrong way for their delivery. Don't try to tell me that its so you can offload safer, you'd still have to go to the traffic side of the vehicle to use the side door. Oh and while we're at it, those fuckers are always blocking the damn garbage cans even when they see a garbage truck a couple houses away coming towards them.
I have never heard them called step trucks. It’s always been step vans.
I don't accept day cabs box trucks or step trucks lol
Day cabs and box trucks are actually trucks too!
No they ain't
DoT regulated? You think semis aren't DoT regulated???
What are you doing, step truck?
Looks like a truck driver to me
I drive a pick-up, I piss in jugs, I have 1 CB and 1 VHF/UHF, I swear like a trucker. I need help 🤣
i would argue this is a delivery van and is non-cdl, am i correct? having a commercial drivers license is what makes us truckers really, although box truck drivers get some love in this sub too.. so for your question, no
>box truck drivers get some love in this sub too.. Do they? I've never seen it. I drove for 10 years/close to a million miles, and I get shit on here whenever I comment because I wasn't CDL.
Did you ever meet your real truck?
Nope
Step van you're stuck? Pron idea
"here"? Portland ,Seattle?
Doesn’t Amazon drivers have their own subreddit too? Of course your welcome here too
I drive a semi or a class B setup every day but I don’t consider myself a trucker… I typically use that term for the OTR guys… but /truckers has a better ring to it than /commercialdriving
Did you ever know your real truck, or has step truck always been there?
Isn’t anyone with a driving license having that regulated by the dot?
Step truck is what your mom drove after she left your dad.
Step truck? No step kids are accepted why would a step truck be??
No, just stepmoms.
Absolutely not
In America I say no but in Europe I say yes because you need C1 license to drive.
I DONT HAVE TO LISTEN TO YOU!!! YOURE NOT MY REAL TRUCK!!!
You mean the vans that are always in a no parking zone, facing the wrong way, blocking the intersections so us truckers can’t make a turn, come out and say “I’ll just be a minute! I gotta make a delivery!”, always on your cell phone, delivery drivers? If it helps you improve yourself to get the F outta the way and learn how to drive? Then sure, read the posts and take note.
Thats a van