The Old days are dying and the New drivers only smell like they have.

Thanks for the replies folks....I was wondering if maybe I was just getting older and crankier and these things didn't bother anyone else, but I see there are some shower takers amongst us...lol...

To tell you the truth,I think their lack of respect is what bugs me the worst of all....Lack of respect for themselves,the equipment they drive and their elders or folks with more time in the game.Respects not about sucking ### neither...Its altogether different and only those with a bit of class will ever give it or receive it properly.

With very few exceptions during times driving, I either work for OLD O/Os running pride of the fleet rooster rides or ran my own rolling light show and I ALWAYS showed respect to the "ol' Rooster" whose truck I was driving or running with...One fuel lane open,he got it first and such .I'm well above average height and can be as rough as a night in a county jail when need be,but when those old guys would come by unannounced to check on me and their truck( mostly their truck...lol) I would be as nervous as a dog crapping a peach seed that I'd left a cig butt in the ashtray or the windows would be dirty or something....Not that I was physically scared of them or that they would care about the cig butt/windows but I RESPECTED them and cared what their opinion of me was.I still do...most of my friends are 20 yrs older than me.Plus you would be shocked to find out who all those guys really know and talk to about you,both good and bad which could screw your next ride up for you in a BAD way....As in not running a nice truck for one of their friends when they have one empty and need a Hand and you need the $$$.

I loved big trucks from almost birth and I watched truckers as a kid and wanted to grow up just like them.Can you imagine whats going through an 8 yo truck crazy boy's mind today as he looks at one these "educated" drivers in these plastic truck stops in cut off jogging pants??...I can... and its probably not respect....

 

I'd like that a lot,but I think me and Road would argue over the cam settings,location,soundtrack ,whether to shot it in day or night and everything else.Maybe we could shoot one together if we kept duct tape on BOTH of our mouths and middle fingers.lol....We would have to invent smellivision for sure too.EEEEZZZ Road...I'm not gouging at you,all in fun.

 

lmao...how do you know I wasn't baiting you...aww hell....I wasn't,I'm just not as sharp as I used to be...After I reread it, I kinda wondered about getting gouged, but I figured nobody but a Wyomingite would nail me on it....lol

 

I readily agree with you...There's been a few nasty butts all along...It's just that now it's epidemic.I'd bet a dollar to a peso your dad was dressed for work rather than lounging on the beach too wasn't he?Thanks for sharing about your dad...you never see anybody wiping "her" down during breaks anymore.