Trucker etiquette??

This is exsacly what i'm talking about! Bumpy, my hat is off to you, you payed it forward,..This is what trucking is about, we all dont know it all, An teaching, is always welcome, it gos with the territory....Yes we will run it to them that have nothing better to do than to run the hole under their noses, But ,if they wernt so aragant an would stop and help a rookie out, an just ask them to pay it forward....things would be a whole lot better out here. I talked about this in my thread helping a driver out.....what did it cost you, nothing but alittle time....ONCE AGAIN BUMPY,MY HATS OFF TO YOU SIR!!!!!!

 

I am willing to bet the supertruckers yappin on the radio had no idea either how to throw chains and that's probably why it was so funny! You would be surprised how many EXPERIENCED drivers don't know how to throw chains! Thanks for helping out and showing some integrity!

 

i learned how to throw chains in school, all the companies that i drove for didn't have chains on their trucks. they always said that if it was to icy or there's a lot of snow just to park it.

 

My question is did they lock in their divider and try that first? Of course, I've seen company trucks without a divider switch.

Quick story - when I was 10, I wanted to play little league - my parents, both being raised during the depression, would never consider putting out any money to do such foolish things. I was able to pay the $10 entry fee that registers me and gets me my t-shirt, but I didn't have a glove.

The coach, still don't know his name, took me and another boy to Kmart and bought us gloves - this was 1973. I told him I'd mow yards and repay him - he said there's only 2 ways I could repay him - first, enjoy playing on the team and give 100%; and to help anyone I saw that needed help.

I've been paying that debt all my life, and do so gladly.

 

nice goin! hopefully someone else saw and will help someone else in the future. i think we as a society not just truck drivers need to start being more neighborly. hell im only 23 and even when i was growing up you knew your neighbors, went over to borrow milk and just go hang out and vise versa. seems like no one does that anymore everyones focused on their own lives 100%

 

its currently a blizzard here and i have a cb in my 1 ton and on my home from my course i heard that a fellow trucker had spun out just up the road on the mtn. so i drove up there just to see how he was doin and when i got there i realized that if he had been goin any faster when he spun he wouldve gone over a 500 ft cliff. it turns out he only had 2 chains and they were ice chains at that. i hung around for a bit and did wat i could to help get him back on the road and off the mtn. im also a volunteer fire fighter in that area and really dont wanna drive tonight.

 

When did SRT start carrying chains? Ah that's not important.
Good on you for helping out!

Here in Rochelle people have been helping others. I haven't heard one negative comment about another driver's ability or inability with this snow here. If anything, it's people's comments about a driver asking the same question that's been asked 10 times before in the last 2 minutes.

Is 39 open? no.
Is 39 open? no.
Is 39 open? NO!

 

Ever since they run all 48 and chains are REQUIRED to be on the truck during certain times of the year in a few of those 48.

 

I don't believe for a moment that those making fun of the SRT team were "old hands".

And they most likely were the ones who were too lazy, or unknowlegeable, to chain their own trucks.

 

Next time your FM is in a bad mood think of this. Every company has drivers like the ones the got on the CB, they just don't suck over the CB they suck over the phone too. It can wear ya down.