First Super Trucker moment

Companies these days won't allow any super trucker activity especially the ones on elogs.

 

did you not read the "back in the day " part ? never said anything about today

 

I think too many people today are confusing "super truckers" with "stupid _uckers".

 

It was when we were still trying to work things out aka constantly fighting.

The argument was over the phone through Oklahoma City. She was mad that someone I talked to the first time we separated had contacted me and I went back and forth with them (she liked to check my phone records all the time). I told her I was sick of having to always explain myself and it went downhill from there.

She hung up and ignored my calls. which gets to me like nothing else.

She got me so ####### angry I was bound and determined to give that ##### a piece of my mind.

By the time I got to El Paso I was too tired to argue and went to sleep on the couch.

931 miles is a long way to go to win an argument.

 

To be fair, it doubles as a "strong work ethic". I knew a company that paid drivers by the hour (still do) and they drove literally like maniacs. Ungoverned B model Macks, hauling 40' trailers loaded with scrap metal to 100K, at 80-90 mph. It was not at all uncommon for them to scale 120K... or to win fantastic overweight fines when portable scales were deployed. Oddly enough, they were rarely cited for speeding, and when they were the cop ALWAYS gave them a break.

Dumbest SOBs I ever knew. One lost his thumb when he was hanging his hand over into the load as it was being unloaded by a magnet crane... may he RIP. Nice guys, hardworking guys, but dumber than stumps.

The stories I heard made my driving experience look like a freakin' vacation.

 

I am just dreading the day when these 1 year "veterans" of today talk about a 65MPH truck, with a manual transmission, paper logs, GPS, quallcomm, being "old school" or " the good old days".

 

Mine does that now; monitors the phone records and computer history. One time I caught her counting my condom stash! Thought I had a good hiding place, but nothing gets by a jealous woman.

 

I'd have to say Day 2 of my first load was my first ST moment, of too many. Went WB over Donner, at night, in a literal blizzard, and chained-up to do it... after a veteran told me to my face only a fool would chain-up to drive into trouble.

Couple hours later I was wearing my knees out kicking myself in the behind for not listening to him.

 

Guess you're talking to me,posts can get so misunderstood.I know what you said.Im referring to the op's post.His friend drives for PTL and probably on elogs meaning companies these days won't allow any super trucker activities.I know about back in the day,my boyfriend would run 2 log books and not think anything about the HOS and would compare with a couple friends on logs and how they ran.

 

STexan: Great points! I didn't mean to imply I'm in favor of any kind of solution forced on the employers. You're certainly right about the historic consequences of such. I just wish there were fewer people willing to put up with more for less.