Ever leave a receiver just happy to make it out alive?

California-style motoring has been at least a 49 state epidemic for ~20 years, which is one big reason YOU have to be more careful every second your brakes are not set.

It's getting worse, not better. The typical motorist of today could not maintain a license for a year in the '60s. Comparatively, today, traffic enforcement doesn't even exist. Budget slashing and the War On Drugs.

 

One company I worked for was based out of NJ, we pulled a lot of stuff out of the ports in Newark and the Island, including OD stuff. Plus most of our backhauls went into either the Newark area, the 5 boroughs, or Baltimore/Philly. Needless to say I felt like this almost every time. You do get used to it after a while and especially once you know the routes you have to take. Having to double (or triple in some cases) park to get unloaded can be nerve-wracking, but when in Rome ya know. The way I always looked at it was what doesn't kill me makes me a better truck driver.

 

Not since I quit pulling dry vans, and thank God on that!

 

After all these years of doin ltl I no jus how ya feel....but ya jus gotta make a game outta it&njoy it. And as for double pkg to unload.....nothin I like more....pull down a street in Bklyn...(or anywhere really)set the brakes...grab my meathooks&chain....wait on the forklift......then spend the next hour or so pulling 24 pallets out 1@a time....while they honk their horns & eventually back outta the street.....doesn't make us completely even.....but does at least give some of em lil taste o their own medicine.....makes my day.....course I'm funny that way

 

I've picked up and delivered to some pretty bad areas from a bad neighborhood to tight turns to horrible backing to customers with bad attitudes,but never thought of just happy to be alive.I more or less thought just another fun filled day in the life of being a truck driver.

 

Sounds like Balmore!

 

All of them.

 

there is a bakery in Boston
one way in one way out with 12' 10 railroad bridges all around
one of those you can see it from the south east expressway
but "You can't get theah from heah"