Owner operator outlaws

Discussion in 'Ask An Owner Operator' started by southernpride, Apr 29, 2010.

  1. southernpride

    southernpride Gone But Never Forgotten

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    GOOD MOURNING ALL:

    now i don't no and i can't speak for all but it's kind of annoying to me when some rookie calls me an outlaw like im a felon. now i no it should not bother me im supposed to be tougher then that but on occasion it does in perticular when they have no idea what there talking about.

    its true i should just let it pass because there young and stupid and there out to change the trucking business to suit there fancy well this one time im going to make an attemp to make it clear what an outlaw is or was you don't see many any more there a dying breed, BUT im not dead yet.

    now i have forgot more about a truck and this businees then all of you truck driving school experts will ever know and with all i know i know enough to realise that im not going to change this buisness at all and here is a flash for all of you experts, if i could i would not why? because i don't see that much wrong with the business, a lot wrong with the drivers in the business but the business is fine with me. drivers make the business what it is the business does not make drivers.

    you newbies want to talk about an owner operator like its a dirty word well let me tell you what an outlaw really is. the term outlaw was used years ago and it refered to a guy that had his own truck that haulerd freight without authority and some times with out permits, he was man enough to refuse to let the goverment tell him what he could and could not haul, if it payed the freight he hauled it and few were ever caught, i believe i was cought one time in all the years i did it and i got news for you if and when the goverment starts that crap again ill be right back out there hauling freight #### BIG BROTHER.and the horse he road in on.

    today you dont have to run like an outlaw , you can get your own authority and haul any freight legally back then you could not, but we still had to pay for the truck, and support our famileys and in spite of BIG BROTHER we #### well did it .you new dip sticks out there want to look down on us , well check your bank account you will find we have a little more in the bank then you and we worked for it , no we did not steal it we worked for evey dime of it , mouth dosen't make a dime . funny thing i've been out hre pretty close to 50yrs and stll going strong , wonder how long you experts are going to last.

    here is a clue if you want to truck, truck, forget about changing things to suit your fancy the business does not need to change, you need to change and if your going to stay in this business thats what your going to have to do. this business is what you make it and that is how it should be , it is made by the drivers that make up the business, you have the freedom to choose just the way you want it , you can make it good or bad just the way you want it , if your having a bad ime , your doing somthing wrong BUT you have the freedom to do it another way name another business where you can do that in fact name another business wher you can run off at the mouth and get away with it . in any other business you would be fired in 30 minutes.

    the truckers, the outlaws, the lease operators, the idependents are all good people and for the most part they all make money , doing there thing, its not for you to decide who is bad and who is not, there truckers and they all do what they choose because it's there choice and they have the freedom to choose, can any of you graduates say you have done as well. the trucking business is doing just fine it's you truck driving school experts that have a problem yourf to much in loved with your self and im sure you wont be here long .

    in spite of things all have a safe ride. southernpride:biggrin_25514:
     
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  3. kickin chicken

    kickin chicken Road Train Member

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    Whoa Dog. It's too early in the day for this.:) Umm...Good morning to you too. I hope you have a great day, sweetie. Please, do not be offended that I called you "Dog", it was meant as an endearment;)
     
  4. groundpounder

    groundpounder Road Train Member

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    don't let the new breed of steering wheel holders get to you man, they don't know any better !!

    be safe out there.....GP
     
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  5. Winchester Magnum

    Winchester Magnum Road Train Member

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    Well said SP. Many to this very day, and for many years to come, have figgured out a way around the governments BS and made a fair and square living without ever hurting a sole. Ever notice it's the newbs who drive a 60 mph truck for a megafleet who are calling everyone else a "supertrucker". When is the last time you heard a bullhauler or seasoned O/O refer to another driver as a "supertrucker". Never.

    This country was made great by men with mental & physical fortitude and balls, and is being destroyed by those who lack the above.

    I think the outlaw mentality you speak of back in the day, is or soon will make a comeback. We have government that is out of control passing legislation against the peoples (actual citizens) will, and blowing money in ways that are beyond comprehension. The crackhead in the whitehouse, leader of the free world has admitadly done more illegal drugs in his life, yet I have not any once done any ever.

    Guess which one of us, me, or the undocumented and self admited drug user in the white house, is subject to random piss tests.

    The REAL OUTLAWS are the ones currently holding office in Washington.
     
  6. josh.c

    josh.c Road Train Member

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    Amen on the drug tests for elected officials! I mean, they have to be smoking something, right?
     
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  7. FriedTater

    FriedTater Keeper of The Snakes

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    Thanks SP,plenty more could be said but . . . . . .
     
  8. Saddle Tramp

    Saddle Tramp Medium Load Member

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    :biggrin_25520:It's not only what their smokin, but what flavor of kool-aid there drinkin.:biggrin_25520:
     
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  9. Saddle Tramp

    Saddle Tramp Medium Load Member

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    :yes2557:You know, I liked it when I first started driving back in '77--'83, you could trust a lot of drivers to "watch your back", run with 3 or 4 trucks across Pa. in the middle of the night at 75+ mph without getting pulled over by the "THE MAN":biggrin_25519: am i showing my age.:biggrin_25519: Now a days you can't "ride the river with," some of these newbes:biggrin_25512:. As i read these forums, you would think that it's the companies fault & not theirs. All i can say is GROW UP you're not at home, mama not going to wipe your nose any more.:biggrin_2553: You're out here to do a job, so start cowboying & cowgirling up.
    I'll get off my soap box now. be safe & do your best.:biggrin_25519:
     
  10. condocassanova

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    I know guys who strut around wearing fancy boots who drive 379's and w900's who whine about the regs yet some of them are already chomping to git on Obama's health care thing . I asked about it in here and I thought the toan was a little nasty towards me. Show me where you can prove to me that Obama and that big wife of his has smoked crack and I'll call for a piss test for them too but I ain't seen it anymore'd I'hve seen there birth certiphicates. They say a the tea party folks are nazis then they give them health care.

    I will say this, I heard that if you bankrup goleman sacks and throw them in jail that it will be harder to get a note on a truck or a backhoe or anythink cause they take the note and gip the buyer off some of the payments then sell that note buyer in hong kong or Japan and he's happy and the goleman guy gets his but the man still gets his rig or backhoe. I fear all this . I read where they might make your big ocean ship burn ultralow

    This world is a mess and fuel is going up so you hate a company now? The Big boys get the loads playing golf and drinking liquor. You can't do that shiftin gears and holding a wheel and they don't care how curteous you are. Try bumping Swift out of Target. or JB Hunt our to of Walmart. THey dont admire Texas bumpers or naked Lady cutouts...SORRY. Also, a Truck is not a big old Harley with a loud horn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
     
  11. bigdaddyo

    bigdaddyo Bobtail Member

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    SP right on brutha. You speak the truth. The only thing ya left out is a true outlaw ain't skeered to serve up a knucle sandwich to any deservin ######## that want one. And screw the #### gubment too.
     
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