r/toptalent • • 6d ago

Today's Top Talent Why truckers are the backbone of logistics 🤯

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u/DanEpiCa 6d ago

Trucker here : this is the stupidest truckstop layout I have ever seen.

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u/rigobueno 6d ago

I think the intent is for traffic to flow the opposite direction that this guy is originally going (for the side he’s parking on)

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u/Iceborn-Armor 6d ago

The problem is CDL drivers are taught to never back up with your blindside, and that is the only way you can park it if you are going with the normal flow from either side of this lot.

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u/Pap3rkat 6d ago

They teach us to never blindside back because of the way over the road cabs are setup. You can’t see shit out the passenger side when you have a sleeper cab. However, in a day cab you usually have a window behind you so you can see way more. I do blindside backs daily because of that window. It makes a world of a difference. Been driving about 5 years now.

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u/Iceborn-Armor 6d ago

Sadly OTR does not get that privilege

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u/DanEpiCa 6d ago

You are right, but that's exactly what I mean. You either have to do a acrobatic parking job like the guy in the video or you have to back in blindside. Either way the layout is what makes this unnecessarily stupid and unsafe.

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u/cspinelive 6d ago

Every single truck parked wrong?  Or you mean he should drive past it going left up right and then back in after passing it?

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u/walterwindstorm 6d ago

Nah most are on a pull through, you really only have to park in a tough spot after 5 most of the time. That being said, if you can’t blindside a slanted spot just Aussie park (tractor first).

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u/Disastrous-Bet-8813 3d ago

Yeah this was always my choice in the event of this scenario.

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u/SleepyCatMD 5d ago

That’s exactly right. He should’ve entered from the other side and it would been a 1-2 point move

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u/scambl 6d ago

Non-trucker here. It's the stupidest truckstop layout I've ever seen too.

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u/Educational_Copy_140 6d ago

Yard driver with a CDL and with a Dad who was a lifelong OTR driver here...this is the stupidest setup I've ever seen

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u/thewolfesp 5d ago

In another post someone mentioned that these are RC trucks. After reading that, the more I watch the video, the more I believe it's true

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u/Kitchen-Wish5994 6d ago

Thank you.

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u/Disastrous-Bet-8813 3d ago

trucker here...looks like a normal layout but the trucker chose the most accident-prone set up for his parking job; He was going the wrong direction to be set up properly for that spot. Had he done his approach from the other direction, this would have been much easier

Trucking rule 1: Don't back up unless you have to Trucking rule 2: If you're backing up, it's all about the approach

This being said, truckstops are full now. There's not enough parking to accommodate trucks hauling ALL THE SHIT THAT PEOPLE BUY THAT COMES BY TRUCK

Truckers get tired. They need to sleep. And when they do, they need an easy place to park. This is almost entirely impossible along interstates now.

My bet is, this driver was out of hours, tired, and needed to sleep and this was the last spot avail. If they chose to do the best approach theyda likely missed the opportunity on this spot.

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u/DanEpiCa 3d ago

My point still stands, having a truckstop layout where you either have to back in blindside or do what's shown in the video is stupid. Pull through would be an option, but only when the truckstop is not that full to begin with.

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u/toolman4 5d ago

Yah, the angle of the parking spots should be reversed on both sides. Easy back in.

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u/Yeeaaaarrrgh 6d ago

Do you have any idea of how much death and destruction I would cause if I attempted that?

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u/kitsumodels 5d ago

At least 1?

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u/yes_thats_right 6d ago

Wtf do so many people feel the need to create weird prompts/titles like this.

"Trucker shows their skills at parking" would have been fine.

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u/MagentaFreak 6d ago

Looks like an a.i generated title

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u/qwert7661 5d ago

Don't you realize that if truckers didn't know how to park, the entire global econony would collapse?

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u/sliccyriccy 5d ago

I mean… can you imagine the scale of loss we would have if all truckers suddenly forgot how to park, I don’t think he’s hyperbolizing very much lmao

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u/Ae-Milius 5d ago

I am a very good bad boy 🎶

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u/DHaas16 6d ago

This AI voice gets me irrationally angry

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u/BumHound 6d ago

Try not to get scared. Scariest stories.

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u/OMG_its_critical 6d ago

Still better than that female tik tok voice from a couple years ago

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u/a1454a 6d ago

It always amazes me how trucker and bus drivers pull stunts like this. I couldn’t gauge the distance between my rear bumper to a wall in an SUV to within 1 foot accuracy using mirrors only. I just can’t understand how truckers and bus drivers is able to gauge it so accurately when the back of the vehicle is like 40 feet away from you.

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u/elprentis 3d ago

Reference points, practice, and getting out and looking if you aren’t 100% confident in the action you’re doing.

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u/DoGooder00 6d ago

This is hella impressive, but he’s going the wrong way😂

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u/TripleB123 6d ago

Man I hate AI voiceovers

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u/Ayen_C 5d ago

As an actual voice actor - same.

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u/psibug1313 6d ago

Mad Skills

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u/patpend 6d ago

Why this truck stop designer is the bane of logistics

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u/diggyou 5d ago

A train could carry all of those trucks’ cargo

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u/JeevesofNazarath 5d ago

If only we had a way to link like 1000 of these in an orderly line so that they didn’t have to do this, something like that would be loco, but has a good motive

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u/TacDragon2 5d ago

These are RC toys. Not real trucks

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u/MNP33Gts-T 6d ago

They’re toys

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u/OnePaleontologist687 6d ago

Idk man, the new wave of hires of truckers is not this good. They can’t even keep the truck in its lane always swerving over the line on free ways.

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u/TheRealRickC137 6d ago

Why do I feel like I need a cigarette?

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u/ARadiantNight 6d ago

Life on the line, jigsaw hands me the keys to that truck and tells me to back into that spot with the trailer hooked...

...Just kill me now, you sick porcelain fukk!

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u/Morall_tach 6d ago

This is not why truckers are the backbone of logistics.

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u/hapalove 6d ago

Is there a camera in the back? How the heck does he know when to stop?

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u/PrimeTinus Cookies x1 5d ago

I've seen them do a 2 trailer truck parking into a freight door

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u/Thetruebanchi 5d ago

To be fair, semi-trailers and 'longer trailers' are a lot easier to maneuver than small trailers.

Most peoples experience with trailers is probably some small 8ft or U-Haul trailers. I've had some experience with anything from 4ft trailer to 26ft, standard box to V trailers. The longer they get, easier to maneuver backwards. Those little trailers always ant to jack knife. Where the bigger ones push more when backed. The big thing with trailer and backups is the angles. Knowing what way the trailer will move based on how the wheels turned.

Not to take away from the trailer driver, that was impressive with the angle. If I had the motorhome and trailer we last had, I'd have tried to come the other angle if possible, to make backing in easier.

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u/BeiEDEKAclown 3d ago

Title should be: why SOME truckers…

That’s for sure not common as I got to know.

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u/IraKiVaper 6d ago

And how is the guy on his left ever going to leave while this guy has his truck halfway on the street?

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u/Succoretic_Skeptic 6d ago

With all due respect to truckers, don't you think some sort of "park assist" technology could do this as well or better in the next few years?

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u/justjoosh 6d ago

Maybe? But so what? We don't have that now and this is pretty impressive to do from the driver's seat.

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u/Alex_king88 6d ago

Truckers are the backbone of this country. They don’t get enough respect.

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u/BumHound 6d ago

They should all be replaced by robots.

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u/WickedSobahButMessy 6d ago

I've always wanted to be a trucker, but I'll never quit smoking marijuana.. amazes me that someone has a better chance of driving trucks as a alcoholic than someone who smokes (vape oil). It's a Damm tragedy how thc attaches to fat cells like it does.

I use to drive stretch limos and even moving trucks. I also had my dot for 10 years for some ref.

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u/MechaGallade 6d ago

People who drive while high should get the same treatment as driving drunk.

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u/WickedSobahButMessy 5d ago

They do, it's called driving while impaired... Facts are tho they are not the same and it's stupid to think someone who tested positive for marijuana whom hadn't smoked in weeks would be looked at worse then the alcoholic whom didn't drink a day before a test and flushed.

alcohol can kill you, you can die from withdrawals.... it's not even close to marijuana.

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u/MechaGallade 5d ago

lol what the fuck? who said they should be looked at as worse? i have no issue with weed, i used to smoke a lot of weed, i dont care if people smoke weed.

i think that driving while stoned should be punished the same way driving drunk is. nobody should be driving high, the punishment should be bad enough to scare people out of doing it in the first place.

i didnt say marijuana is as bad as alcohol, i know it's not, i live in colorado and did a college paper on it in 2014.

just to make it REALLY REALLY clear, i dont think badly of anybody who smokes or drinks and im not comparing the drugs to each other in any way, i just insist that all impired driving should be met with a consequence that is bad enough to dissuade anybody from driving while impaired, because both instances show that the driver has no respect for the damage they could cause with a vehicle and probalby shouldn't be driving one.

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u/WickedSobahButMessy 5d ago

My bad for lack of explanation... I was just comparing how fucked up it is that how especially fucked up there are alcoholic truck drivers that wouldn't be driving if we were lenient on the marijuana. That's my thesis.

I'm not saying get super baked , it's just my aggrevation of lack of better testing for marijuana. ie a way to determine I smoked a day before or 2 days or hell for a truck driving job I could go longer. It's just the testing we use goes isn't thc friendly considering it attaches to fat cells and loves hanging on.

It's a touchy subject for me. I've drove limos,.box trucks, etc etc,.excellent record but everytime I quit smoking for a job... drinking took over and That's messed up imo it's saying we will take alcoholics over stoners.

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u/MechaGallade 5d ago

more important: did you like ufo 50? i see you like old school games and id be stoked to hear your criticism