Giving and getting bear reports

**x#1** · 12.30.2010

Originally Posted by Roadmedic

Too many morons on the radio anymore.

Turn it off.

Do the speed limit.

Pay attention to the traffic.

Who cares about the bears.

Basically,it is about more than just bear reports. I should have expanded upon my statement.Turn off the radio and steering wheel holders,you know about them,will be turning on that same radio and asking why the traffic is stopped or what is going on w/said traffic.
Even driving the speed limit will get you a ticket in communist states like ohio and california.
Therefore it is always nice to know the location of the cops so even steering wheel holders are able to drive accordingly.

**Bumpy** · 12.30.2010

Times are a changin Sir,and in my opinion,usually for the Worse!!

**Roadmedic** · 12.30.2010

Originally Posted by x#1

Basically,it is about more than just bear reports. I should have expanded upon my statement.Turn off the radio and steering wheel holders,you know about them,will be turning on that same radio and asking why the traffic is stopped or what is going on w/said traffic.
Even driving the speed limit will get you a ticket in communist states like ohio and california.
Therefore it is always nice to know the location of the cops so even steering wheel holders are able to drive accordingly.

Whatever you think.

I run mine every once in a while. The morons get on the radio with stupid crap.

Turn it off. May be a long time again unless I run with someone.

I do not worry about the bears and I have not had a ticket for speeding since 1975.

I run the speed limit in California and Ohio and have NEVER gotten a ticket for obeying the speed limit. What a line of crap.

**DJ4wd** · 12.30.2010

Originally Posted by laverty

Thanks to electronic monitoring the bear report isn't needed by most...just that simple!

What do you mean?

**Buckeye 'bedder** · 12.30.2010

Originally Posted by x#1

Basically,it is about more than just bear reports. I should have expanded upon my statement.Turn off the radio and steering wheel holders,you know about them,will be turning on that same radio and asking why the traffic is stopped or what is going on w/said traffic.
Even driving the speed limit will get you a ticket in communist states like ohio and california.
Therefore it is always nice to know the location of the cops so even steering wheel holders are able to drive accordingly.

Heyyyyyy! I resent that remark!

No better blue-collared, red blooded state in the USA!

**james3505** · 12.30.2010

Originally Posted by Lonesome

The bears are always moving. You can hear "bear at the 121 westbound", and it might be 30 minutes after the guy saw him. Think the bear is still there? Or a guy says "I got on at the 43, clear to there", when a tropper got on a minute after he did. Just too unpredictable.

if you can get a few different reports and they all have a bear in that area you can use guess he is probobly working that area, if you dont hear about him again then he is just moving on.

if more people would help out then a bear wouldnt be able to hit the road without everyone knowing it.

**tracyq144** · 12.30.2010

Originally Posted by x#1

What has happened here? I have always assumed that the giving of bear reports IS a part of the job description of truck drivers.
I have gone for as long as several hours giving but never receiving one in return/acknowledgment of my bear report.
Is this the new breed? Is this the same mentality that flashes their bright lights at you while getting around them? Really.What gives here?
Is it the satellite radio syndrome? Is it the driver of a slow truck syndrome? Truck school graduate syndrome? LAZY driver syndrome?
Just asking as I have become more cognizant of this "fad" as of late.
What happened to the bear report? Has it gone to the wayside not unlike the stopping to assist a broken down driver on the side of the road? Too many qualcoms out there now and dispatches that do the driving for the drivers in trucks equipped w/as much?
It is indeed a perplexing thought/question for me.

Yes to the bold.

As to the not "stopping to assist a broken down driver on the side of the road?" syndrome, I've pretty much stopped that because of all the stopping on the side of the road to read the map, make/receive a phone call and/or read the Qcomm, take a piss, change drivers, etc.

I'm an older driver, too, and it just ain't like it was. Some things are worse, and some things are better. Just the way it is.

The only constant in life is change.

**zentrucking** · 12.30.2010

Too much jack and smack talk on the radio ... Satellite radio, and trucks incapable of doing the limit ... much less exceeding it.

Even many of those who can - don't to save fuel.

Still around on 2 lane state and county truck routes tho.