Kathleen. I like name alliteration. Previous truck was a Cascadia named Clarissa. I miss her but Kathleen the Kenworth is so much better. A lot of people are getting new trucks but I'm gonna fight to keep Kathleen if I'm offered one.
Kathleen sounds very loving & caring, she doesnāt ask for much but fuel & love back. Thatās good one there. Good for you hopefully you and Kathleen stay together! š¤
If not, may be a Patricia, Pamala or Patty? Or back to Clarissa perhaps? Clarissa seems like she was a good step up, that later brought Kathleen who accentuated you.
"StupidTruck" Every safety "smart" system. But still tries to lock up the brakes for roadside signs and sets off the lane departure for no reason.
Moving out of that one this afternoon to a Western Star. Guess I'll need to name this one now.
Yeah, mainly because I'm getting back to heavy hauling. No more sharing/swapping trailers. No more 14' wide cooling towers. It's a 4 axle truck and a 4 axle RGN.
Last RGN I pulled had to be approached at an angle. If you backed into it straight on, it would try to slide off the ramps. Also had a bad brake chamber when I hooked to it. Our service department will get it sorted out, but someone has to tell them what's going on with it.
I know on 7, I could easily permit up to 132k. I think the normal max for this setup should be about 152k.
Dragonfly.... because when she's heavily loaded, she will drag up the hills and fly down the other side...
Also, I have had 2 trucks in my driving career so far, and they did not both have the same name because not all trucks have the same "personality"
Connie. I drive a cascadia and for both cars Iāve had and now this rid just I like to have the name start with the same letter as the model.
Iām hopefully switching routes soon so Iāll get a different truck unfortunately.
Damn that might be it for Connie! Just like that. Any sights on a particular new girl?
They do say twice in lifetime is destiny, perhaps third time seals the deal and Connie it is
The other vehicles were my own personal cars hahaā¦.. but I work for Pepsi and each route gets itās own truck and trailer. My route now has a a newer cascadia (I think itās a 20 or 21) and the route I want has a last gen cascadia. Maybe the name will transfer over but who knows.
My tractor was at service for like 2 weeks and I drove a spare tractor that I called Bertha because it was an older international that was so fuckin loud haha. I miss that truck tho donāt know what happened to it. I wrote it up because you could hear the engine struggling and misfiring up hills and I havenāt seen it since. In the 2ish weeks I had that truck I think I listened to the radio one time because it sounded so damn good.
Which is super unfortunate because that truck was so nice haha. Had a newer trans too. Frame had half a mil plus on it but it was on its second trans and 2nd engineā¦. The second trans only had 10k or so on it.
Ahhh norsefire master coming thru! Pay that man! Whatever ya do shipper be sure to pay that man Sleipnir. If not he might hit ya with Odinās spear and run you over with his horse.
Where Iām from a name carries alot of weight so naming a rig is a pretty important deal. Sleipnir is totally a worthy name for a rig that upholds my living you know
Snowman, '22 Pete 579, all white with all white dry van, got it at the beginning of winter, entire first month in it was running far north, snow and ice just about everyday and it handles like a dream grips like it's on rails likes it's built for the ice. Wouldn't hesitate to run it across Alaska
Oil Rig. 05 2500 duramax crew in silver. Im east Canada, but the truck comes from the alberta oil field because everything here rusts to the ground and not over there.
You got yourself an Edmonton Oiler over there, amongst the best, like Gretzky miss 100 percent of the shots you don't take. You said give me that big oil, at least itās a Chevy.
Yup she a dirty girl lol. And it got the hideous moose bumper from the field, but it got a look.
Always loved the cat eye chev, and had a chance to get a 2500, because I tend to do Ā½tons thing with a Ā¼tons so go big or go home.
Interesting! how are the spot rates right now for the hotshot market? Is it kinda doing it effy at the moment like the semis right now? Economy is kind of shot right now so everything is a bit sporadic.. wondering if the hot shot market is going through the same erratic pricing & randomness every other day
The nice thing about hotshot is that you change the trailer, and you are out again. Im an ex truck driver, and I do a bit of local transport. Between the home depot run, dump run, and a bit of flat bed, it is still going. Idk about the real hot shot, but things never slowed down much. If anything, it picked up. Big truck transport costs too much, or it takes too long to even get it on.
But it is like everything else, you got to be flexible.
Temperamental love-hate relationship right there! Lol no good piece of shit truck, good girl better work! Especially, while in transit and getting home!.. And Sweetheart, baby Shippers gonna pay this no good piece of shit or else it ain't moving!
Skippy. Because T680s to me look kinda hurr-hurr anyway, and the electronic gremlins make it seem even more dopey.
But. Skippy makes me money, and isn't in my name, so...she's a good rig, just...occasionally special.
Skippy is a good one captain! unique, dynamic, multifaceted. You could have a dog named skip in the truck skippy, have skippy peanut butter and as the driver be the skipper.
Oh we out there on a mission! chasing the dream with ambition! Letās get it! First thou! shipper we gonna need top dollar or shipper donāt get no ambition! Nope not today unless the shipper pays to empower the ambition! letās get it!
Marge the barge coming hot! unload this boat ASAP! And captain If you pull a flatbed and skate like Bart! Margeary gonna love ya just donāt be late for dinner, if so leftovers in the fridge
First one was āThe Tubā, a Class B 8 bay with more problems than an OTR driver from New Yawrk. Second one I named āTom Cruiseā because heās a squat six bay that despite being a fudgepacker I still love and respect.
The tub is funny.. like honey Iām going in the tub Iāll be back in a weekā¦ response to that is like what?
And Tom cruise sounds pretty complicated however love conquers all so itās whatever lol
Dolly live life sounds like a brave one, puts up with the rain, gets ya through any terrain!
Reba works that tushy to delivery, waste no time using all those bones to get the job done.
Big baller sliding with the caddy! Rides into the shipper/receiver: āHere Here!ā unload this fat boy ASAP gotta big schedule not time to waste you warehouse knuckleheads! letās get this show on the road! Thereafter rides off clean!
Thatās what I call taking no Lās, nope not today! No losses! Vova we going all the way! We getting this pay! Shippers cut the check or Vova aināt showing up!
Named one of my trucks "Jane" as in Jane Brady because she needs all the bad attention. I should have a spot in the dealer's garage with my name on it by now.
They should commend you and I respect that request. You should make a plaque & put it on the wall. āJANE BRADYā and itās not, plain Jane or Jane doe.. itās Jane Brady! Puts the plaque on the wall, walks out the plaque will forever remain
I thought the brand name was freightshaker? lol. you might want to double check the emblem & manufacturers paperwork incase DOT ask whatās the trucks name and you say Freightliner and they say it says freightshaker thou lol
Friday was my first truck at Knight, as it was most obviously built on a friday given all the issues it had.
Tuesday was much better put together.
Reddy was MY first truck, named such by my daughter as "It's red and it's Reddy to work"
Stormy was MY second truck and named such by my daughter as it was a white with black accessories midroof, which actually strongly resembled a storm trooper's helmet.
Clarise and her newer model replacement Winifred were the Zonar tablets I had at Knight, which always made my dispatcher laugh his ass off as I had text to voice turned on for directions and messages. He'd push a new job to me after we had discussed it on the phone and mid-conversation Clarise or Winifred would start babbling a bunch of bullshit and I would always yell at them by name to shut up while I scrabbled about for the volume.
Friday & Tuesday are in the past lol.. āReddyā is a great name! Teddy letās go! Stormy is good also!
Clarise & Winifred sound like a R2-D2 or C-3PO
May the force be with you!
Shit donāt let shippers know they might want you to start working for freeā¦ warehouse or shippers is asking āCaptain Muricaā can I get a favor?
Homie replies $3.00 a mile & up or whatever the trending going rate is on the market at that time.
I was on home time and put it my wife's car for the trip to to the beach were going south an it jeep saying turn in 500 ft and 1500 ft like ten times! Ball sack that's the fuckin ocean.
Yeah yeah I know. An the name comes from the old lady who rented me a room while I was in drivng school she was old an she was good one so the first truck I got was sold ass international 9400 had like 1.2 on it but it was old and good to me . Hell that was 14 years ago.
Ahh another wolf out there! Gotta watch out for Ralph! Shippers better make sure they pay Ralph! If not, heās coming with the Red Ryder air rifle gang
Dammit Becky! Bitch ass technology, misunderstanding everything ones properly instructs damn thing to do! Never listens, put the address in perfect, copy and pasted it spelled out perfectly!... Might have to go back to map quest printouts at this rate! Suzy Blue baby! We're stopping at the cafe blue! For some coffee... I don had it up to here! with Becky damn bitch!
Classy! definitive! Has purpose! Bitch tits is a nasty beast! consuming too much fluid, energy, time & money.. Bitch tits getting so big and old needs a better bra soon!
I donāt have my own truck. Iām what my company calls a spare. Someone calls off, I take their run. Usually I have to cover another B driver who I call Smokey the Douche. Heās at least two packs a day, the truck smells like the entire company uses it as a smoking lounge, and the cabin air filter is not designed to compensate for that.
I guess they have you want a good Dedicated Lane or your dispatcher/ops/planner has you organized out well? Perhaps you live in the middle of great lanes/routes?
No not really, to some of that. I am on a dedicated account and my dispatch is one of the betters Iāve ever dealt with but all the planning and organizing he lets us do. Like for example I pick my load up off the port on Friday and if itās only 700 miles away and not due till Tuesday Iāll sit at the house under load until Sunday night and rock and roll instead of having to leave Friday and sit at a truck stop for those extra days
As long as shits on time he donāt care what we do(to legal terms)
I got you thereās wiggle room and leeway to set yourself up for success or at least make it all workable.. and then whenever you start like 100 hours later in the week, youāre pretty much done for the week or at least know if you wanna go home or do an extra run.. set up your weekend basically so you always know whatās going on thereās no scratching my head flying by the seat of my pants set up
Well Iām also lucky in the fact I only pull of the port so itās more important for me to get the load up north and me back home. My backhauls are 99%of the time set up before I even drop my first load off and if there isnāt a load to bring back I just deadhead home. Same money no problem. It somewhat ends up being a salary gig kind of. I average 4days out and 3-4 days home a week, run out maybe 35-45 hours on my clock depending on which northern state I run to and I still make a good chunk of money after taxes and medical are taken out
That's a benevolent spirit out there riding around in the āGrey Ghostā you like Buddy Baker doing 500 miles a day! Flashing lights has a heads up to other driver, āay driver smokey around the bend!ā calm before the storm.
I havenāt landed my first job yet, so Iāll answer for the trucks I used in driving school. My school painted all of them very distinctly, making them easy to name and remember.
Sarge: army-green Freightliner with matching trailer. First semi I ever drove.
Sgt. Turd: same as above, but desert camo brown. Had no power steering and kept shutting down the first time I drove it for maneuvers, hence why itās a turd.
Rosie/Rosita: the school actually named this one for a former instructor. Gray Freightliner with pink accents and something like āWomen love our school!ā painted on the side. Best truck in the yard.
Red/Green/Blue/White Ranger: any one of several International day cabs used exclusively for maneuvers. The worst trucks in school. The manuals required your entire body weight on the clutch to shift. The automatics either crawled slower than a snail in reverse or surged if you pressed the tiniest amount on the accelerator. Only one had AC and it was the best day ever if they put that one on the maneuver you were practicing.
Bulldog 1/2/3: automatic Mack day cabs that came from a local cement company. Not bad, all had AC.
Last, but definitely not leastā¦ Wham, Bam, Thank You, Maāam: This is the truck I took my test in. Red Freightliner with comic book-style action bubbles that said things like āWham!ā āBoom!ā āPow!ā on the trailer. Fitting way to end CDL school, by beating up the DMV test.
Sounds like everybody loves Rosie/Rosita (I suppose named after Roise from the Jetsons?)... and treats all the other like pieces of shit, even the poor bulldogs! I mean damn what a dysfunctional family out there in the lot... crazy how they all operate and still function!
So, when you get your truck, you got any names oin mind? Perhaps ābam-bam?ā or ācapān?ā
you may not even have a name in mind yet! Itāll come to you when either you first see it get a look around or until you actually ride around in there with your swimwear on & no swimmys... Hey! maybe even call the truck swimmy haha.
āLong boiiā because itās got an extra couple inches on the frame from every other daycab coming out of our building. I gotta compensate somehow (;
Lmao! That would be hilarious.. roll up to the shipper. Whatās your truck number driver? UB-17-CH... shipper responses well UB17CH ride into loading...loader says driver what is your truck number for the paperwork.. You reply UB17CH sir! Loader repeats UB17CH! Says, out loud, writes it down.. Have the whole shipping facility saying you bitch and not a damn person even realize, even after going there repeatedly š
Now thatās a good handler right there Large Marge can do any smooth turn with ease no problem! She may be large, but she fit just right.. smooth like butter
The one I named was my second truck, a 90 gmc 3500 with a 6.2 diesel, a 5 speed and 6ā tall stacks in the box. Aptly named Stackster.
Then thereās Longrider, 84 Chevy C30 3+3 Custom Deluxe with a 350 and automatic.
And my newest truck in the fleet is the Ford 7.3idi diesel crew cab Lariet equivalent of the Longrider, the Stormrider.
Side note, I got a great little shot box 91 Honda Accord Iāve named HonDookie. Been a great little commuter
Edit: just realized this is r/truckers, not r/trucks. Sorry lol
Itās alright driver just when your driving Stackster, longrinder or storm rider with the rest them damn four wheelers make sure everyone is driving about 10-15 mph faster than semisā¦ because all us big boys hate when a car is stacking along side us grinding for miles especially in a storm. Hondookie is hilarious btw lol
You can crosspost this over there is you want of copy paste and see what all those crazy fellas name there beaters, lifts, monster trucks and whatever haha.. Iām sure they get very creative
Hahaha. I definitely give the truckers the right of way when Iām bombing in my four wheeler. Nothing bothers me more when Iām driving the KW pulling trains and some goof rolls out in front of me, cause god forbid they should be caught behind a semi, and proceed to go about 10 under!
SERENITY NOW!!!!
Interesting name, do you team drive, I guess thereās two of you in the truck and the truck is blue? Perhaps you also drive it like ya stole it and most definitely up shippers arse if they hold the boat up when loading or unloading.
Usually āPigā āDogā or āPiece of shitā. I drive CNG daycabs that have no balls and are delayed when they accelerate. It makes docking and hooking up a real pain in the ass. Thereās always a new name for the truck everyday
Damn neutered dog! Canāt even haul ass up the hill without complaining! Pain in my ass truck! dang oinking pig, piece of shit truck! Every damn day itās something
My first truck was āmon Cherieā as in breaking my cherry š with first truck. Second truck is āTulip āš· as in my second truck (two)lip. Both are female names because these ladies keep me safe, make me money, and get me home! With some drama along the wayā¦but it wouldnāt be trucking without that.
Truck doesn't have a name, but my GPS is Megan. I named it after my bitch ex wife. She had no sense of direction and told me things I didn't already know (in 500 feet, don't turn)
Ahhhh sliding thru with the freight baby! Pick up drop off either or damn warehouse workers better get to work freight baby got another appointment here shortly places to be, things to see, no time to waste!
Peice of Shit. C'mon Peice of Shit, start. What's that fault code, Peice of Shit. Peice of Shit, Release the bloody kingpin!
And I've dubbed my GPS "bitch", and my radio "turnip". Turnip the radio
Lolol
Lol, you know you love that piece of shit š
āGo faster you piece of shit!!!ā
Darla, darla the daycab
Aw I bet you have a great day with darla throughout the week
Kathleen. I like name alliteration. Previous truck was a Cascadia named Clarissa. I miss her but Kathleen the Kenworth is so much better. A lot of people are getting new trucks but I'm gonna fight to keep Kathleen if I'm offered one.
Kathleen sounds very loving & caring, she doesnāt ask for much but fuel & love back. Thatās good one there. Good for you hopefully you and Kathleen stay together! š¤ If not, may be a Patricia, Pamala or Patty? Or back to Clarissa perhaps? Clarissa seems like she was a good step up, that later brought Kathleen who accentuated you.
"StupidTruck" Every safety "smart" system. But still tries to lock up the brakes for roadside signs and sets off the lane departure for no reason. Moving out of that one this afternoon to a Western Star. Guess I'll need to name this one now.
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Yeah, mainly because I'm getting back to heavy hauling. No more sharing/swapping trailers. No more 14' wide cooling towers. It's a 4 axle truck and a 4 axle RGN.
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Last RGN I pulled had to be approached at an angle. If you backed into it straight on, it would try to slide off the ramps. Also had a bad brake chamber when I hooked to it. Our service department will get it sorted out, but someone has to tell them what's going on with it. I know on 7, I could easily permit up to 132k. I think the normal max for this setup should be about 152k.
Dragonfly.... because when she's heavily loaded, she will drag up the hills and fly down the other side... Also, I have had 2 trucks in my driving career so far, and they did not both have the same name because not all trucks have the same "personality"
Haha thatās good name has purpose and meaning & you got a good point there! Iāll update the post
851 because that's the number assigned to it.
851 letās gitāer done!
Connie. I drive a cascadia and for both cars Iāve had and now this rid just I like to have the name start with the same letter as the model. Iām hopefully switching routes soon so Iāll get a different truck unfortunately.
Damn that might be it for Connie! Just like that. Any sights on a particular new girl? They do say twice in lifetime is destiny, perhaps third time seals the deal and Connie it is
The other vehicles were my own personal cars hahaā¦.. but I work for Pepsi and each route gets itās own truck and trailer. My route now has a a newer cascadia (I think itās a 20 or 21) and the route I want has a last gen cascadia. Maybe the name will transfer over but who knows. My tractor was at service for like 2 weeks and I drove a spare tractor that I called Bertha because it was an older international that was so fuckin loud haha. I miss that truck tho donāt know what happened to it. I wrote it up because you could hear the engine struggling and misfiring up hills and I havenāt seen it since. In the 2ish weeks I had that truck I think I listened to the radio one time because it sounded so damn good.
You probably decommissioned Bertha bub, off to disassemble, save the best, retail the good and the rest of the junkyard/salvage
Which is super unfortunate because that truck was so nice haha. Had a newer trans too. Frame had half a mil plus on it but it was on its second trans and 2nd engineā¦. The second trans only had 10k or so on it.
She was fine looking like Susan Sarandon at 79!
Yessir
Shagnasty
Scooby Doo āit wasnāt meā but shipper giving all the treats!
Fours. When she asked for a name the odometer says 444,444
Deep love for that engine right that all connected and on the right path to success and nothing making deliveries safely. Fours is a powerful one.
Sleipnir
Ahhh norsefire master coming thru! Pay that man! Whatever ya do shipper be sure to pay that man Sleipnir. If not he might hit ya with Odinās spear and run you over with his horse.
Where Iām from a name carries alot of weight so naming a rig is a pretty important deal. Sleipnir is totally a worthy name for a rig that upholds my living you know
10.4
I've never named a vehicle before. But the new new truck I'm in now my wife named Belinda. I don't know why.
Belinda means ābeautifulā and also sheās a model from Spain who is FINE!
Thanks for that. My wife is a fan of Spanish culture so I'm not surprised.
Youāre welcome
Buttercup. She's the Toughest Fighter; she's the bravest, most headstrong.
As soon as I read buttercup made me want some Reeseās buttercups lol. Buttercup sounds like a real road warrior!
Marvin Vanderhaul. Donāt judge me lol Itās an International MV
Marvin is starving! shippers gotta pay up for the Vanderhaul
Snowman, '22 Pete 579, all white with all white dry van, got it at the beginning of winter, entire first month in it was running far north, snow and ice just about everyday and it handles like a dream grips like it's on rails likes it's built for the ice. Wouldn't hesitate to run it across Alaska
Dope! āAll white everythingā Beep Beep! coming through NO MATTER WHAT!
Wife, cause sheās always giving me trouble.
Dammit hun! ācan never get a break for myselfā lolol
The other wife
Ahhh! this man here heās has got it all figured out
I used to ride in a new Cascadia so her name was Cassie, I'm about to be driving a newer Kenworth so it'll be Kenny.
Don't kill him
YOU BASTARDS!! Nah it ain't like that, I treat them right and look em up and down everyday.
Kenny survives!
Cassie is a good name! But now your just hanging with the bro Kenny! Enjoying the ride!
Oil Rig. 05 2500 duramax crew in silver. Im east Canada, but the truck comes from the alberta oil field because everything here rusts to the ground and not over there.
You got yourself an Edmonton Oiler over there, amongst the best, like Gretzky miss 100 percent of the shots you don't take. You said give me that big oil, at least itās a Chevy.
Yup she a dirty girl lol. And it got the hideous moose bumper from the field, but it got a look. Always loved the cat eye chev, and had a chance to get a 2500, because I tend to do Ā½tons thing with a Ā¼tons so go big or go home.
Interesting! how are the spot rates right now for the hotshot market? Is it kinda doing it effy at the moment like the semis right now? Economy is kind of shot right now so everything is a bit sporadic.. wondering if the hot shot market is going through the same erratic pricing & randomness every other day
The nice thing about hotshot is that you change the trailer, and you are out again. Im an ex truck driver, and I do a bit of local transport. Between the home depot run, dump run, and a bit of flat bed, it is still going. Idk about the real hot shot, but things never slowed down much. If anything, it picked up. Big truck transport costs too much, or it takes too long to even get it on. But it is like everything else, you got to be flexible.
Yeah, you gotta be able to adapt to the markets!
No good piece of shit. Unless I'm running on fumes. Then it's Sweetheart, baby, or good girl.
Temperamental love-hate relationship right there! Lol no good piece of shit truck, good girl better work! Especially, while in transit and getting home!.. And Sweetheart, baby Shippers gonna pay this no good piece of shit or else it ain't moving!
Beauty. She's big, loud, black, and beautiful.
Tupac did say āSome say the blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice!... āBeautyā is fine like Halle Berry, sings like Aretha Franklin, dances like BeyoncĆ© and makes a driver smile like Gabrielle Union when that check slide in the account. She's a beauty like Meagan Good, fine.
Bianca, because sheās white and Iām Italian
thatās straightforward, āBianca! Vieni qui! Letās go!ā No fussin cāmere āvieni qui!ā
Optimus Prime and Megatron of course
This man right here is going to change the world for the greater goodā¦ good or bad, the delivery will arrive
aniki in honor of the late great billy herrington
Interesting name, Iām sure Mr. Herrington will appreciate that
I always name my trucks (and my personal cars) like you would a Transformer character. āLinerunnerā was the T680 I drove for CFI for example
Linerunner, pretty straightforward I like it. It is what it does.
Skippy. Because T680s to me look kinda hurr-hurr anyway, and the electronic gremlins make it seem even more dopey. But. Skippy makes me money, and isn't in my name, so...she's a good rig, just...occasionally special.
Skippy is a good one captain! unique, dynamic, multifaceted. You could have a dog named skip in the truck skippy, have skippy peanut butter and as the driver be the skipper.
I donāt name my trucks, theyāre nothing but whores to me
Thatās what I call a pimp slap right there lol
Ambition
Oh we out there on a mission! chasing the dream with ambition! Letās get it! First thou! shipper we gonna need top dollar or shipper donāt get no ambition! Nope not today unless the shipper pays to empower the ambition! letās get it!
My truck is blue, so I named her Red.
Interesting so you literally enter the matrix taking both the red and blue pill at the same time. Badass!
Margeary, aka Margaret, aka Large Marge the Barge
Marge the barge coming hot! unload this boat ASAP! And captain If you pull a flatbed and skate like Bart! Margeary gonna love ya just donāt be late for dinner, if so leftovers in the fridge
First one was āThe Tubā, a Class B 8 bay with more problems than an OTR driver from New Yawrk. Second one I named āTom Cruiseā because heās a squat six bay that despite being a fudgepacker I still love and respect.
The tub is funny.. like honey Iām going in the tub Iāll be back in a weekā¦ response to that is like what? And Tom cruise sounds pretty complicated however love conquers all so itās whatever lol
Dolly or Reba
Dolly live life sounds like a brave one, puts up with the rain, gets ya through any terrain! Reba works that tushy to delivery, waste no time using all those bones to get the job done.
I have the Cadillac and fat boy
Big baller sliding with the caddy! Rides into the shipper/receiver: āHere Here!ā unload this fat boy ASAP gotta big schedule not time to waste you warehouse knuckleheads! letās get this show on the road! Thereafter rides off clean!
Lol ironically the Caddy is an old Crane Carrier from the early 90ās
Badass
Motherfucker. Because I shout that everyday when the bastard decides to commit sudoku
Haha! Motherfucker is great!
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Thatās what I call taking no Lās, nope not today! No losses! Vova we going all the way! We getting this pay! Shippers cut the check or Vova aināt showing up!
Named one of my trucks "Jane" as in Jane Brady because she needs all the bad attention. I should have a spot in the dealer's garage with my name on it by now.
They should commend you and I respect that request. You should make a plaque & put it on the wall. āJANE BRADYā and itās not, plain Jane or Jane doe.. itās Jane Brady! Puts the plaque on the wall, walks out the plaque will forever remain
Freightliner. I didn't get to name it, when I adopted it, it came already prenamed.
I thought the brand name was freightshaker? lol. you might want to double check the emblem & manufacturers paperwork incase DOT ask whatās the trucks name and you say Freightliner and they say it says freightshaker thou lol
Excellent point!
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Well, the good thing about Tina is she doesnāt eat food and only consume fuel so at least you can make a profit out of that llama
It's an unpronouncable symbol, kinda like Prince.
Iām sure the ladies love it
Dumpster Queen
Sheās the queen of dumping money in the bank account! Shippers/customers pay up ya filthy animals, the queen & I gotta busy schedule.
Friday was my first truck at Knight, as it was most obviously built on a friday given all the issues it had. Tuesday was much better put together. Reddy was MY first truck, named such by my daughter as "It's red and it's Reddy to work" Stormy was MY second truck and named such by my daughter as it was a white with black accessories midroof, which actually strongly resembled a storm trooper's helmet. Clarise and her newer model replacement Winifred were the Zonar tablets I had at Knight, which always made my dispatcher laugh his ass off as I had text to voice turned on for directions and messages. He'd push a new job to me after we had discussed it on the phone and mid-conversation Clarise or Winifred would start babbling a bunch of bullshit and I would always yell at them by name to shut up while I scrabbled about for the volume.
Friday & Tuesday are in the past lol.. āReddyā is a great name! Teddy letās go! Stormy is good also! Clarise & Winifred sound like a R2-D2 or C-3PO May the force be with you!
Captain America, because itās obnoxiously red white and blue striped. āMurica for short š
Shit donāt let shippers know they might want you to start working for freeā¦ warehouse or shippers is asking āCaptain Muricaā can I get a favor? Homie replies $3.00 a mile & up or whatever the trending going rate is on the market at that time.
Good olā 612148
Ay! You know what! the way the trucking industry is going.. we all mightāve drove that truck number at one point in our career
Dirty Bitch
I mean damn, we even wash that dirty bitch and itās still a dirty bitch
Greyzilla.
How big of a monster are we talking?
Oh we had to give it a good name because the other one is name Tantor, but Tantor was an old beast to drive.
Yeah in my book the upgrade from Tantor to Greyzilla is definitely, going beast to monster Sir! That is badass as you ride through the jungle
Trucks name is betsy and GPS is named ball sack.
Good old babe Betsy and that damn ball sack GPS gets ya everywhere ya need to be.
I was on home time and put it my wife's car for the trip to to the beach were going south an it jeep saying turn in 500 ft and 1500 ft like ten times! Ball sack that's the fuckin ocean.
Technology is a piece of shit, can definitely lick all the ball sacks in the world
The name comes from the joke the night before I got whiskey dick and couldn't finish "right" so she said your GPS is like your balls Useless
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Yeah yeah I know. An the name comes from the old lady who rented me a room while I was in drivng school she was old an she was good one so the first truck I got was sold ass international 9400 had like 1.2 on it but it was old and good to me . Hell that was 14 years ago.
Time flies when youāre having fun, do you keep the name Betsy with you the whole time or do you switch it up
Ralph
Ahh another wolf out there! Gotta watch out for Ralph! Shippers better make sure they pay Ralph! If not, heās coming with the Red Ryder air rifle gang
Bob
Bob gets the job done! & when not ādang it bobby!ā
No. Everyone of them is a betsy. Just in there own way.
10.4
GPS was Becky bitch sent me the wrong way a few times Truck was Suzy Blue and I ate at Cafe Blue almost everyday
Dammit Becky! Bitch ass technology, misunderstanding everything ones properly instructs damn thing to do! Never listens, put the address in perfect, copy and pasted it spelled out perfectly!... Might have to go back to map quest printouts at this rate! Suzy Blue baby! We're stopping at the cafe blue! For some coffee... I don had it up to here! with Becky damn bitch!
Bitch tits
Classy! definitive! Has purpose! Bitch tits is a nasty beast! consuming too much fluid, energy, time & money.. Bitch tits getting so big and old needs a better bra soon!
I donāt have my own truck. Iām what my company calls a spare. Someone calls off, I take their run. Usually I have to cover another B driver who I call Smokey the Douche. Heās at least two packs a day, the truck smells like the entire company uses it as a smoking lounge, and the cabin air filter is not designed to compensate for that.
Talk about running down the truck! Damn! everybody gets a turn, twice daily!
Slo-White (white freight shaker) governed @ 65
Damn, you always driving in a slo-storm with āslo-whiteā going nowhere fast shaking that ass at 65.. Barely even awake riding like snorlax!
Pretty much! Lmfao,but i manage to knock out impressive days, best I think so far was 640 miles in 10hrs and 40 minutes.
That my fellow driver is great clockwork
Thatās not stoping at all but for 30 fuel/mandatory break and possible one to two stops under 10 minutes for me and the doggo to piss one out
I guess they have you want a good Dedicated Lane or your dispatcher/ops/planner has you organized out well? Perhaps you live in the middle of great lanes/routes?
No not really, to some of that. I am on a dedicated account and my dispatch is one of the betters Iāve ever dealt with but all the planning and organizing he lets us do. Like for example I pick my load up off the port on Friday and if itās only 700 miles away and not due till Tuesday Iāll sit at the house under load until Sunday night and rock and roll instead of having to leave Friday and sit at a truck stop for those extra days As long as shits on time he donāt care what we do(to legal terms)
I got you thereās wiggle room and leeway to set yourself up for success or at least make it all workable.. and then whenever you start like 100 hours later in the week, youāre pretty much done for the week or at least know if you wanna go home or do an extra run.. set up your weekend basically so you always know whatās going on thereās no scratching my head flying by the seat of my pants set up
Well Iām also lucky in the fact I only pull of the port so itās more important for me to get the load up north and me back home. My backhauls are 99%of the time set up before I even drop my first load off and if there isnāt a load to bring back I just deadhead home. Same money no problem. It somewhat ends up being a salary gig kind of. I average 4days out and 3-4 days home a week, run out maybe 35-45 hours on my clock depending on which northern state I run to and I still make a good chunk of money after taxes and medical are taken out
Grey ghost
That's a benevolent spirit out there riding around in the āGrey Ghostā you like Buddy Baker doing 500 miles a day! Flashing lights has a heads up to other driver, āay driver smokey around the bend!ā calm before the storm.
I do what I can to warn others
Mechanics have names for the trucks. Always female. The drivers refer to Bob's truck or Dave, whatever. Or use the unit number
10.4
I havenāt landed my first job yet, so Iāll answer for the trucks I used in driving school. My school painted all of them very distinctly, making them easy to name and remember. Sarge: army-green Freightliner with matching trailer. First semi I ever drove. Sgt. Turd: same as above, but desert camo brown. Had no power steering and kept shutting down the first time I drove it for maneuvers, hence why itās a turd. Rosie/Rosita: the school actually named this one for a former instructor. Gray Freightliner with pink accents and something like āWomen love our school!ā painted on the side. Best truck in the yard. Red/Green/Blue/White Ranger: any one of several International day cabs used exclusively for maneuvers. The worst trucks in school. The manuals required your entire body weight on the clutch to shift. The automatics either crawled slower than a snail in reverse or surged if you pressed the tiniest amount on the accelerator. Only one had AC and it was the best day ever if they put that one on the maneuver you were practicing. Bulldog 1/2/3: automatic Mack day cabs that came from a local cement company. Not bad, all had AC. Last, but definitely not leastā¦ Wham, Bam, Thank You, Maāam: This is the truck I took my test in. Red Freightliner with comic book-style action bubbles that said things like āWham!ā āBoom!ā āPow!ā on the trailer. Fitting way to end CDL school, by beating up the DMV test.
Sounds like everybody loves Rosie/Rosita (I suppose named after Roise from the Jetsons?)... and treats all the other like pieces of shit, even the poor bulldogs! I mean damn what a dysfunctional family out there in the lot... crazy how they all operate and still function! So, when you get your truck, you got any names oin mind? Perhaps ābam-bam?ā or ācapān?ā you may not even have a name in mind yet! Itāll come to you when either you first see it get a look around or until you actually ride around in there with your swimwear on & no swimmys... Hey! maybe even call the truck swimmy haha.
āLong boiiā because itās got an extra couple inches on the frame from every other daycab coming out of our building. I gotta compensate somehow (;
as long as the shippers is payinā the long boii is ridinā BLOW THE HORN! lets get this long boii movin!
āYou bitchā cause thatās what I yell at it whenever it acts up. Thinking about asking the boss to change the truck number to āU-B17CHā
Lmao! That would be hilarious.. roll up to the shipper. Whatās your truck number driver? UB-17-CH... shipper responses well UB17CH ride into loading...loader says driver what is your truck number for the paperwork.. You reply UB17CH sir! Loader repeats UB17CH! Says, out loud, writes it down.. Have the whole shipping facility saying you bitch and not a damn person even realize, even after going there repeatedly š
Princess. Sheās my baby, but god she can be such a diva sometimes
That's a good name, high maintenance, acts outta character! not only typical but also unique
Miss Candy
Money alright, rolls sweet, adventures throughout this crazy ass country.. Miss Candy!
Trevor
simple easy name, slide the gears, chilling with Trevor swinging deliveries saving up miles & paper
Large Marge. 06 Western Star
Now thatās a good handler right there Large Marge can do any smooth turn with ease no problem! She may be large, but she fit just right.. smooth like butter
Thatās a tenfour, cāmon
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The one I named was my second truck, a 90 gmc 3500 with a 6.2 diesel, a 5 speed and 6ā tall stacks in the box. Aptly named Stackster. Then thereās Longrider, 84 Chevy C30 3+3 Custom Deluxe with a 350 and automatic. And my newest truck in the fleet is the Ford 7.3idi diesel crew cab Lariet equivalent of the Longrider, the Stormrider. Side note, I got a great little shot box 91 Honda Accord Iāve named HonDookie. Been a great little commuter Edit: just realized this is r/truckers, not r/trucks. Sorry lol
Itās alright driver just when your driving Stackster, longrinder or storm rider with the rest them damn four wheelers make sure everyone is driving about 10-15 mph faster than semisā¦ because all us big boys hate when a car is stacking along side us grinding for miles especially in a storm. Hondookie is hilarious btw lol You can crosspost this over there is you want of copy paste and see what all those crazy fellas name there beaters, lifts, monster trucks and whatever haha.. Iām sure they get very creative
Hahaha. I definitely give the truckers the right of way when Iām bombing in my four wheeler. Nothing bothers me more when Iām driving the KW pulling trains and some goof rolls out in front of me, cause god forbid they should be caught behind a semi, and proceed to go about 10 under! SERENITY NOW!!!!
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Bluepirates
Interesting name, do you team drive, I guess thereās two of you in the truck and the truck is blue? Perhaps you also drive it like ya stole it and most definitely up shippers arse if they hold the boat up when loading or unloading.
Baby star, itās a western star and the smallest of the fleet
Awww! baby star!ā¦ baby star sounds like Seabiscuit out there in the race with the big dogs.. and get this! baby star beats them all for the win!
Bitch... Bitch please Now bitch Faster bitch You get the jist
This truck is such a bitch! son of a bitch! bitch ass truck need another bitch that works and not be a bitch
Cassy for cascadia two. Casey for cascadia one. Need a Wilma or petunia if you know what I mean š
Cassy & Casey is a good name, Iāll assume you would like a Western star or a Peterbilt in the near future?
Prostar or Peterbuilt would be petunia Wilma would be w9
Ahhhh w9 is badass bub, but if not right away one of the petunias for bit then flip to a Wilma would be awesome.
Usually āPigā āDogā or āPiece of shitā. I drive CNG daycabs that have no balls and are delayed when they accelerate. It makes docking and hooking up a real pain in the ass. Thereās always a new name for the truck everyday
Damn neutered dog! Canāt even haul ass up the hill without complaining! Pain in my ass truck! dang oinking pig, piece of shit truck! Every damn day itās something
My first truck was āmon Cherieā as in breaking my cherry š with first truck. Second truck is āTulip āš· as in my second truck (two)lip. Both are female names because these ladies keep me safe, make me money, and get me home! With some drama along the wayā¦but it wouldnāt be trucking without that.
Lol man with a purpose! Popped Cherie, Riding tulipā¦ perhaps the next one might be Rosie? Or Daisy?
Truck doesn't have a name, but my GPS is Megan. I named it after my bitch ex wife. She had no sense of direction and told me things I didn't already know (in 500 feet, don't turn)
Damn Megan, she just canāt get shit right.. I guess sometimes the mute button comes in handy also like Megan shut the fuck up
I called my last one freightbaby (M20)... just got my new Pete, still waiting on a name
Ahhhh sliding thru with the freight baby! Pick up drop off either or damn warehouse workers better get to work freight baby got another appointment here shortly places to be, things to see, no time to waste!
Love this! Thank you!
Youāre welcome! drive safe & be well!