Well I sure love that Southern Sweet tea.

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I Can't Help it... The little voices make me drive ALL NIGHT! TRUCK IT UP!!!

Driver on the scales, park your paperwork and bring your truck in.

Is it just me or does the the food really suck in the chow hall

you need to get your head out of your 4th point of contact and get with the program

Jess is really busy with her new toy goggle earth. she is currently trying to goggle an Amish person in PA.

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I Can't Help it... The little voices make me drive ALL NIGHT! TRUCK IT UP!!!

Driver on the scales, park your paperwork and bring your truck in.

Is it just me or does the the food really suck in the chow hall

you need to get your head out of your 4th point of contact and get with the program

If you don't mind me changing the subject, I was in an old cabover today and it really got me thinking about how much things have changed:

Back in the day before qualcomms, cellphones, and gps, it was a real proud thing to get a load from point A to point B.

The shipper would give you the paperwork, shake your hand, and TRULY thank you for hauling the load. Once you left, there was NO WAY to track you, NO WAY to know if you were doing fine or sitting along the road stranded. People used to worry about you because they had no way to know if you were okay or not.

If you had a breakdown, you found a way around it and tried to keep going. Road service wasn't much help before cell phones were around to call them.

We all knew that the broken down driver could be us, so we always jumped in to lend a hand. It was a real feeling of comraderie.

I'll never forget delivering my very first load in the old cabover. Every time I took a left turn the passenger door would swing open!

It was a proud day, pulling into the reciever's lot with the radiator trying to boil over and the wigwag down in front of the windshield!! Not much power or safety to spare in that old equipment!

By the way, the first one of you under the age 30 who knows what a wigwag is gets a free meal by 6pak4two or me.

You have to ask an older driver-- no fair googling it.

OMG I cant believe you did not mention vegemite, I love that stuff.

meeee tooooo!!!
ever since i got on the road with bob that's all i've been drinking....sweet tea!!

hey jess, i hope you have been able to get with JJ on the road lately too, i'm glad that i have the opportunity to spend time away from home without having to worry about anything. i must say tho', that i have had the painful pleasure of seeing the life of a trucker and my hats off to all the drivers out there who have to deal with impatient, old, distracted, irresponsible and uncourteous 4 wheelers. i do not, could not, never will have what it takes to be a driver.....don't have it in me....i'll stick to navigating and the paperwork.

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White lines & miles are all that keep us apart, but regardless where you are...you ALWAYS remain here in my heart.

Ok who's ### do I have to kiss to get them to pay for a truckwash every now and then? My nice white truck looks like I've been offroading. Being a company driver, I'm not going to spend a cent to keep their equipment clean

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Tractor repair writeup Driver-- Engine missing while driving---
Mechanic "after brief search engine found under hood, recomend driver to look for it while stopped"

6 words to strike fear into your heart: "Trucks do it all the time"

You know there are going to be problems when directions to shipper included the words, "I think" and "Good Luck"

[quote=jess-juju;949048]Lol I was on Google earth checking on JJ it just finished downloading on my laptop.




hope you unchecked the other junk so you got just the program and not everything else it wants to throw at you.
that's my pet peeve. i want a program and bunch of other sh** installs with it. then i have to uninstall the other ####.

lastkid, when the air pressure gets below 60 psi. now we have buzzers and gauges.

KH

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Kinghunter: Truck Driver, Truck Photographer, Airline Guru and Boat Guru

here, here
i am missing the foods of the islands. my favorites that i can't get in idaho....
portuguese sausage, poi, fresh watercress, alae salt, fresh fish or crab, chorizo, fresh mango or papaya, .....ahhhhhh, i miss home but i am adapting.

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White lines & miles are all that keep us apart, but regardless where you are...you ALWAYS remain here in my heart.