What is your favorite thing about driving a truck?

Discussion in 'Experienced Truckers' Advice' started by reverber8, Mar 3, 2016.

  1. scottlav46

    scottlav46 Road Train Member

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    Yeah buddy dropped off the tall cotton n picked up cabbages up bound for the windy. It's a lovely day to lose my ac lol
     
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  3. Accidental Trucker

    Accidental Trucker Road Train Member

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    Making the run 20 minutes faster than the record. Cloed weigh stations. No lines at customs. 4 AM, and nobody on the road for miles and miles. Running "unknown" two lane roads through God's country. A breakdown when you are empty, and no appointment to keep.....
     
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  4. tech10171968

    tech10171968 Medium Load Member

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    Rolling down a two-lane in the desert just as the sun starts to rise, with a cup of good coffee in hand, and nobody else on the road. man, talk about peaceful...

    Hitting up a diner on some goat trail in the middle of BFE and finding out just why it's a "best kept secret" of the locals...

    Plowing through some lake-effect snow on I-90, looking in your rearview and seeing a line of 10 4-wheelers following your tracks. And wondering, "what are these guys gonna do when I have to take my 10?"...

    Most of all, this little fact: the United States is so huge, with so many different cultures, climates, accents, etc, that most of the people who live here will literally go to their graves having seen (at most) maybe 25% of their homeland. I, on the other hand, can say that I've at least been through 48 of our 50 states.
     
  5. Brandonpdx

    Brandonpdx Road Train Member

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    Honestly that sounds like something you'd hear at the T/A driver's counter.
     
  6. PackRatTDI

    PackRatTDI Licensed to Ill

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    This guy was a certified nut case. They finally had the police write a no trespass ticket because he pestered us so much.
     
  7. Bob Dobalina

    Bob Dobalina Road Train Member

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    When a little kid does the Universal Air Horn Request Gesture!

    That always makes my day.
     
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  8. Salad

    Salad Medium Load Member

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    I like banking my time off to enjoy mini vacations throughout the year.
     
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  9. tscottme

    tscottme Road Train Member

    Sorry, I can't resist.
    "What's the -20 on the freedom?"
    :)
     
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  10. tscottme

    tscottme Road Train Member

    I like the part when I'm left alone and can listen to podcasts or audiobooks or rock, country, or classical music.
     
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  11. Rocknroller4

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    Hoping I don't run into the legend of Ol' Sloppy pants.
     
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