Hat Tip to Top Hands.

I would like to thank that random driver who helped me blind side into the shasta warehouse in obetz.

 

Several years ago my fan belt tensioner quit while I was pulling a trainload of diesel up Daniels Canyon in UT. Luckily it was well below zero that night, so I was able to idle the rest of the way up the hill and scoot across the flats. Called a guy I worked with and he bobtailed out 30 miles west to take my load and get it delivered 60 miles east , then drove another 30 miles to where I live and dropped my trailers, then bobtailed 60 miles back home. I offered to buy him some fuel to make up for it and he said 'if we don't watch out for each other, who will? Just help the next guy that needs it'. Blew my mind, especially since it was well after midnight by the time he got home

 

A shout out to the countless 4 wheelers who either let me slide in or back up so I can make it around a corner. Folks talk a lot of stuff about how braid dead they seem to be, but they've helped me out more than once........including the lady who got out of her car and flagged down traffic while I backed onto a street I didn't need to be on (when I first started out).

 

A really nice, older driver helped me last night blind side in a parking spot, (last one and the place was s cluster ####) it was raining, very cold and this man saw me line up to back in, and didn't walk away until I was backed up completely..I went to get out and thank him, and he was already gone. Very nice guy, and in the 2 short years I've been driving, I can definitely count on 1 hand the times I've gotten help. (Not that I need it much )

I help as much as I can, whether it's helping someone back in to a tight spot, or sliding my reward card for a shower for another driver that doesn't have any, we're all out here, we may drive for different companies but we all deal with the same crap. It's too bad so many take on the attitude of "I'm better than you" sometimes after a long day it's nice to shoot the #### with another driver.

 

Yeah, there are still a few 4-wheelers around from the "old school" that will flash you in, or move over when they see your blinker on. Every time one does me a solid I'll give them a blast on the horn and a wave as they pass..... Funny how many of them seem surprised that I acknowledge them....

 

Here's a tip for new drivers ............
Dipshitt's rule for helping driver's back in...........

If you get out and look, I will get out and help. If you don't get out and look, I'll figure you got it.

 

Shout out to the Company guy who gave me 4 spots to p/u empties in Perth Amboy NJ area.
Turns out the wonderful crew in box planning sent me to p/u a m/t at a customer that had been closed for 2 years.
The only trucks that parked there were..you guessed it the company guys.

 

Shot out to the guy in Denver when I was stuck in the mud and he was recording while I was struggling to get out.

Shout out to the drivers who sit in their cabs with their headlights on while I'm trying to back into a tight spot.


And lastly

Shout out to the guy who stopped to offer me food and water when I broke down in the middle of bum#### nowhere Nevada. Hindu too good guy.