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Equipment issues/when to refuse equipment
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Equipment issues/when to refuse equipment

Hello ! Coming on here to ask a question / talk about a predicament I’m in. Started this job 2 ish months ago and pretty much every single day whatever truck I’m assigned has an issue or “issues”. This job is local with occasional regional runs (250 miles one way) & the thing is if...

Weekend linehaul
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Weekend linehaul

I have been thinking about running linehaul Saturday morning. Just curious does anyone know how this works do I set up with my manager? Or just call central dispatch? I work for O.D and I know I can ask my manager and get the answers but it's on my mind right now that's why I...

Human Smuggling Incident In Laredo
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Human Smuggling Incident In Laredo

Dash cam shows 10 people bailing out of big rig in suspected human smuggling incident in Texas How TF do you smuggle 10 people in an International LT? In a Cascadia is bad enough!! 1 little 2 little 3 little immigrants… 4 little 5 little 6 little immigrants… Source link

2010 Cummins isx 2637 code | TruckersReport.com Trucking Forum
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2010 Cummins isx 2637 code | TruckersReport.com Trucking Forum

Any Cummins experts on here? Looking at a truck that has a 2010 isx, no dash lights on but scanner is showing 2637; Aftertreatment 1 Diesel Oxidation Catalyst (DOC) face plugged – root cause unknown Anyone know what it could be? Truck has over 700k miles, and in the spaceship (exhaust stack) looks like part...

Entire trucking fleet suspended after ‘large vertical load’ strikes two overpasses
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Entire trucking fleet suspended after ‘large vertical load’ strikes two overpasses

Canadian transportation officials have grounded a trucking company’s operations pending investigation into a double overpass strike on Thursday. The overpass strikes occurred at 9:17 a.m. on Thursday, February 20, in the Vancouver area, B.C. According to B.C. Highway Patrol, the “initial investigation shows that a tractor-trailer towing a large vertical load struck both the 264...

Be very carefully of the person you work for!! | TruckersReport.com Trucking Forum
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Be very carefully of the person you work for!! | TruckersReport.com Trucking Forum

Please select the number of verifiable months you’ve been driving professionally using your Class A CDL within the last 3 years. Please Select…None1-5 Months6-11 Months1 Year2+ Years Each company we work with has specific experience requirements for their drivers. In order for you to receive the best possible offers, please make sure your answers above...

Let this drone footage of last weekend’s snowy chain-reaction crash serve as a reminder to drive carefully 
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Let this drone footage of last weekend’s snowy chain-reaction crash serve as a reminder to drive carefully 

A chain reaction crash involving tractor trailers and buses was filmed on a drone footage over Interstate 71.  The accident happened on Sunday, February 16th on I-71 near I-265/Gene Snyder Freeway in the northbound lanes in Louisville, Kentucky.  According to… a semi truck jackknifed during a winter storm, causing traffic to stop. Three charter buses...

2019 579 Transmission Fault
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2019 579 Transmission Fault

I have the PACCAR drivetrain. So after a recent service and supposable computer updates I am now having an intermittent issue with getting a Transmission Fault. This happens when moving around to a dock at a shipper/receiver and going in forward to reverse. Cycling key a few times and fiddling with shift knob seems to...