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\t\t\t\t\tWhenever I ask a trucking question here, everyone always starts chastising me, writing that I should have learned the answer to whatever question that I am asking in my first year of truck driving. Nobody has ever told me that I should have learned something in my second or later year of truck driving. Here are the things that I learned after my first year of trucking:<\/p>\n
1# sliding the tandems forward reduces off-tracking, allowing me to easier maneuver around obstacles.<\/p>\n
2# stopping at all railroad tracks that don’t have warning lights or a gate arm<\/p>\n
3# the existence of trolley valves on most semi-trucks<\/p>\n
4# pushing in the red brave valve is supposed to pop out the trailer tandem pins. In my rookie year, I always just walked to the back of the trailer and pushed in the trailer pin release button.<\/p>\n
5# It is illegal to drive in the third lane in most states. In my rookie year, I thought it was only illegal to drive in the left lane where there were signs explicitly forbidding it.<\/p>\n
6# when backing, you don’t need as much forward space if the tandems are slid forward<\/p>\n
7# when buttonhooking a right hand turn, i should wait until there is not oncoming traffic blocking me on the street i am going to turn onto. In my rookie year, I would just blow my air horn and bully my way through LOL<\/p>\n
8# I need to look for hub oil seal leaks on the inside of the trailer wheels. In my rookie year, I would only look for leaks on the outside of the trailer wheels.<\/p>\n
9# when sliding the fifth wheel on my truck, I need to dolly down the legs of the landing gear to take the weight off the fifth wheel. In my rookie year, I didn’t know that, and it was very hard for me to adjust the fifth wheel to any position except all the way forward or all the way back.<\/p>\n
So everyone always tells me that I should have learned everything in my first year of truck driving. What the heck did you all learn AFTER your first year of truck driving then?\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
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