My Experience as a Line Haul Driver

Discussion in 'Motor Carrier Questions - The Inside Scoop' started by American-Trucker, Apr 14, 2012.

  1. Trucker Steve

    Trucker Steve Medium Load Member

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    Thank you so much for this wonderful comment. I can't put into words how much what you said means to me. I now have a certain sense of relief knowing a man like your son is protecting all the young and old in heaven! I bet your a very proud dad! :)
     
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  3. Trucker Steve

    Trucker Steve Medium Load Member

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    LMAO - This video was actually made to show these guys on the cb just how fricking silly they are. It was sarcastic (a few think it is ME for real) The CB is dangling like that because I actually had to borrow a CB to make the video and didn't have a mount for it. (show you how often I talk on the radio) The idea actually came from my buddy who i ran into at the truck stop who noticed me and walked up like you listening to these idiots on the radio? I was like "no, I don't have a radio". He said dude we should show the world how stupid this is. HE filmed, and put it up on youtube...
     
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  4. Logan76

    Logan76 Crusty In Training

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    Talkin on the CB would be alright if everyone would cut out the stupidity and act like human beings instead of hiding behind a mic and acting like a jerk. You hear all of these toughguys on the radio but not a single driver has EVER talked to me like that at a truck stop or anywhere else for that matter, possibly because there is no microphone there to protect them?
     
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  5. vikingswen

    vikingswen Road Train Member

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    I don't know. Seems like a lot of trouble to install a radio if you could have sat in your buddies truck. I just cringe as a mechanic seeing stuff like that. This reminds me of one of my kid's classmates. He mouthed off big on Facebook one night and I guess he forgot that he had to go back to school the next day. I think he forgot his electronic protective shield smart phone app since he got his butt beat in the hall.:yes2557:

    I guess lets stop hijacking the poor kids threat and find him a job out there so he can run with "pork chop" and other fine truck drivers.
     
  6. stabob

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    Hey Steve glad to hear you are taking better care of yourself you were putting on some lb's in some of your videos. I hate to ask but did someone light your home on fire?
     
  7. skateboardman

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    lol, again the word you look for is delusional. the posts you make here are way more funny than the you tube videos.

    and yes i do beleive you had something to do with shipping wars and truckstop mo. the quality of them was very much inline with your youtube channel. but then i also dont find the jack a movies funny.

    everybody has had some pain and suffering their lives, brothers being killed, father with alzheimers, stepfather with leukemia, kidney failure and congestive heart failure, and on and on. you deal with it and go forth, one never forgets, you just learn to live with the pain. no one has the market cornered on pain and suffering.
     
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  8. Trucker Steve

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    I agree 100 %. it can be a great tool, sadly most people using the cb are tools.... lol j/k
     
  9. American-Trucker

    American-Trucker Road Train Member

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    ok so long time no posting...i dont remember nor do i care to last week so we'll go straight to thursday:

    Last thursday i got up at 3am, and flew to Burlington, VT. Spent the whole day with my best friend brittany and my god son (her son) trevor, then thursday night, me, brittany, my ex GF, and two of my other friends went bar hopping from 8mm to 230am, i think we hit like 8 bars, i spent about $120 on drinks lol

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    we all ended up crashing at britts parents house for the night.


    Friday: too brittany and trevor to the mall to find a dress for brittany to ware to the wedding (she was my date). Then after that i went to the wedding rehursal, then helped get the barn ready for the reception. During which we took a tour of the brides dad's 150 Acre farm see:

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    then was the bacholor party


    Saturday: Picked britt up and went to the wedding, then the reception


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    Then i took britt to her familys camp in Campersville and hung out with her, trevor, and her whole family until like midnight, then drove 2 hours back to burlington. Then got up at 530 am, to catch my flight. First flight went fine, get to newark airport and they wont let us off the plane....THeir on lockdown they have a security breach...no problem i have 2.5 hrs till my next flight....ya right!

    30 min later we're off the plane, but now locked in the airport...still on lockdown, stilll looking for 1 guy! HUNDREDS of cops, tsa, etc searching...

    1.5 hrs later we're free, we get on the shuttle to the other terminal, start to get off and tsa comes out "back on the bus!" ######! Now their on lockdown for a bomb scare...WTF!

    15 min later we're free and headed to the gate....flight leaves at 1230pm...get to the gate at 1225....flight left 15 min ago! WTF! me and 5000+ other people sat in line in front of customer service for HOURS took me 3 HOURS to get to the desk its now 245pm...."sry the next availible flight is 9pm Tomorrow night..." ME: "mmmk well get me a flight on another airline" her: "rolls her eyes....ok"

    Got me a 530pm flight to charlotte...delayed until 630pm, plane dont show until 630, we dont load till 7, dont leave until 730, then we take off into a HUGE storm, and get to go on a very bumpy ride and listen to the kids and whoever else screaming like they're about to die....idiots....dude next to me grabs and squeezes my hand...dude....WTF!


    didnt get home till 10pm should have been home at 230pm.....arggg



    Then yesterday did my run, worked the dock till 745pm


    Today, sat around until 910am waiting for a truck, get a newish white freightliner columbia daycab, slow 65mph, but the ac worked, hooked and left, got 95% of the way there and the passenger side door opens at 65mph....WTF! had to hold it shut with the seatbelt.

    On the way back get stopped on the I-85 scale near charlotte, guy waddles up, tells me to pull forward 4 feet, then he checks the registration, then he says hold on ill be right back, then he pops his head out and waves me off.....this company pays the dot...just FYI

    Oh and for anyone in the Area....PARK! very large storm, almost every road in the charlotte area has 1-6" of water on it, accidents everyware.....VERY bad out there right now



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  10. skateboardman

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    looks like you got an ear ring on in the top picture and whats up with the party hats in the wedding picture?
     
  11. American-Trucker

    American-Trucker Road Train Member

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    that was something behind me, havent had my ear peirced since i was 9. And those arent party hats those are suit hats, he wanted the grooms men and him to look like mobsters....stupid i know.




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