Taking the whole family trucking.

I grew up from lapmonkey to curtain climber to hellion sitting on the doghouse of an old Emeryville with Mom and Dad. No wonder no matter what Ive tried through the years I end up back in a truck!!

 

How is everybody seatbelted in?

 

I rode with my grandfather ever since I was an infant and then rode with my mom when she started driving. I loved riding in the truck. They only did south Georgia to S Florida and back though. I took my daughter with me for a week this summer. She seemed to enjoy it.

 

Wife wanted to go with me when I started, I had been driving for 3 years. She's got a CDL A class, got confused with semi and bus. "I don't see how you put up with this! I'll stick my big yellow schoolbus!"

 

I grew up in the truck with my dad, I used to spend almost whole summers in there with him between school and I was pretty young, guess that's why when he told me "Go to college, don't be a rum dumb truck driver like me." I never listened and as soon as I turned 18 and could get my license I did and ever since then I've been motoring along...

 

Same, grandfather drove one, father drove one, wife drove one for about 5 miles, and my daughter says she wants to get a CDL and a local job.

 

Exactly . I recently read a report of a driver than ran into a stripe painting truck and burned his rig up . His young daughter was in the sleeper and he got her out . Most likely he hit the truck because he was distracted by her .
How can 4 or more people be safely buckled in in a tractor?

 

I spent every summer vacation riding with my dad, and I wouldn't trade it for anything in the world.

Hopefully they were just taking a trip with dad and not living out of the truck, but even that is better than being homeless and giving up your children to DCS

 

The only way I see a family living out of the truck work is if you a big oversized sleeper.

 

When you are at rock-bottom, and have absolutely nothing, a 60" sleeper is a god send. I've know families that have lived out of a van and another out of a pop-up camper. Life is hard, and if that is what this family was faced with, then god bless them for trying to rise above it the best way they can.

I have ran into a few drivers who had kids with them, and you could tell they were down on their luck. Dirty clothes, the whole deal. I've given money to more than I can rememeber, and a candy bar goes a long way with a kid who has been told NO for the last month about any excessive spending.