Embarrassed to be a truck driver....

ya know, it really doesn't matter why. He was unprofessionaland it reflects on Old Dominion.

 

YOU can get flipped off over anything!
It don't take much for someone to get all bent out of shape and start with their sign language!
YOU just look at someone now days and the flipping begins!

 

The courteous thing to do would have been to let the driver go on past you and then let him back in to the lane. Then at that point, mash on it and "blow his doors off. If he complains at tht point, tell him to call his dispatcher and have him send him a truck with a bigger motor....LOL

 

From reading some of these stories, I find it hard to believe that someone could actually think they can drive an 80,000lb vehicle while drunk. Its freakin crazy!! Cell phone. I noticed its hard for me to drive a 4 wheeler and be on a cell phone even with a bluetooth headset. Anyways, for not being a driver just yet I know that I wouldn't be caught on the phone until the truck is stopped.

 

I find the blue tooth or other hands free phones are no less distracting that a regular cell phone. You still have your concentraion elsewhere. Studies have shown they are no more safe.

The pee bottle make me compleatly irate simply from a public image standpoint. I'v been driving long enough to remember the signs that said "reserved for profesional drivers" (someone else brought this up elsewhere and I think it's an excellent example) you sure won't find that these days and if you did someone would probably graffti it looking for something of the oral veriety.

 

I always thought folks were just letting me know I was #1:smt081

 

It's idiots like those that give us profesional drivers a bad name. One ges in an accident, it's all over the news, next thing I know people are looking at me driving down the road with fear in their eyes.