Photojournalist Needs Ride-a-Long

Well it's about the Reason people are in that position more then the job itself though I suppose the story is also about how they're adapting to the life on the road.

 

now that is funny

 

My company allows me to take any adult of my choosing. I just pay the insurance via payroll deduction

 

The OP just found his ride.

 

Sounds almost like it is going to be a "look at this poor "insert white collar job here" who had to stoop so low as to become a trucker!"

That is part of the reason everyone has such a poor view of us. Everyone figures if things hit rock bottom you can always drive a truck. There are some of us that truly enjoy our jobs and take pride in what we do as well as act professionally.

 

One reason I suggested he gets himself a CDL and takes his camera along. He could do a story about a photojournalist who first had to stoop low enough to work for the Huffington Post, and then really hit rock bottom and had to go drive a truck.

Personally, I think everyone should be obliged to take a ridealong with a trucker as a precondition of getting a four wheeler license, followed by a trip as a passenger on a motorcycle. That might start teaching them some (long overdue) respect.

 

Not to threadjack...but......i think the legal driving age...in all 50 states should be raised to 17/18(permit/license)

And how strict restrictions as far as how long they can drive, how many passengers, times at night, no highways until xx amt of city driving......i know some states already have SOME of these but i also think it should be even across the board.

I also would like to see the license renewal process incorporate a driving test, every 4 yrs. i think that would prevent alot of bad drivers to be out on the road.

And dont even get me started on handicapped passes on the rearview mirror or on the plate itself!!!






.....going back into my hole now. i think i just opened up a hole 'nuther can of worms...

 

I just tried that calculation...

accurate + unbiased * Huffington Post = ERROR (Illegal Operation)

Had to restart my computer... thanks for that... good luck convincing anyone with more than 2 active brain cells to rub together that the Huffington Compost is going to put out anything fair and/or objective.

You obviously don't realize that truckers are for the most part a conservative lot... (granted, there are exceptions)... then you wonder why you get the reaction you got when you post that you want it for an ultra-left rag???... Huffington Compost is all the information most need... a joint that is pretty much completely in bed with groups like PATT... let me give you a hint, Daphne Izer's idea of "trucking safety" would be to get them all completely off the road... & I'm sure that if she sent an op-ed in to the HP it woule be printed verbatim... & just for the record, she lives about 20 miles from here & we in Maine have been subjected to her wing-nut ideas for nearly 20 years... granted, she lost her son, OK, we can all sympathize & yes the driver was over his HOS... but many up here have figured out that she's still a moonbat just the same... myself included, and LONG before I ever held a CDL... in just the most recent example she wrote an "open letter" on behalf of PATT & other groups to the governor & Maine's Senators opposing extending the federal allowance of 100,000 lb gross weights on I-95 in Maine... her reasoning being that 100,000 lb trucks should not be allowed on the road... newsflash for Izer, PATT, & Co.... Maine is a logging state... 100K trucks are a way of life up here... always will be... would you rather have them rolling down I-95 or down 2-lane US-Rt2 right past 270 intersections, 30 traffic lights, 86 crosswalks, nine school crossings, and 3,000 driveways? What's the true safest option?

Amen to that... another idea... how about he do his "ride along" to document all the stupid things morons in 4-wheelers do around trucks... I only graduated high-school level physics & math but I can figure out that 2 tons vs 40 isn't much of a fight... and that being said, your average idiot out on the highway in a 4-wheeler (more often with a cell phone crammed in his/her ear these days) has scared the bejeezus out of me on one h*ll of a lot more occasions than ANY truck driver EVER has in my near 50 years of life rolling around the highways of the east... and that even includes the one that blew a tire on his trailer on I-84 right next to me. (yes, I was definately wide awake for the next hour or so... thanks)

But of course, if he did that, it wouldn't have a snowball's chance in Hades of getting published in the Huffing&Puffington Compost.

Heck, a couple weeks ago, a moron in a smugmobile (Prius) jumps out of a side-road in front of me so I have to drop speed & gears to follow him at 35MPH in a 50MPH zone a mere 200 yards so he can then turn left... genius... then I'm pulling out from a side road & a courteous type stops & flashes his lights to let me out... I don't jump at the chance though 'cause I can see the pickup behind him not slowing down... you guessed it... right around that guy in the breakdown lane... another rocket scientist... by the way... did I mention that this was all during my CDL road test?

 

Hey Dix.......welcome to trucking.....it don't get much better than that. You survived the road test that alot of folks woulda failed on ...well done driver!!!

 

When have we ever heard both sides of a story from the HP? Really now... isn't that the pot calling the kettle black?

It would be like Rush Limbaugh giving an interview to Nancy Pelosi.... look at the wack job Pelosi's daughter did on George Bush after she was welcomed into his campaign to do a story on him...

Sorry but you write for a site with an agenda.... why not fill us in on what kind of story this will be?