Drive your own #### truck!

I really understand this thread, I understand where Otto is coming from. When I had my partner aboard she was a leadfoot, still is, always will be get over it. The only ticket she posseses was in POV about two years ago....must have been a dang fluke, she drove with me for 23 years, I taught her guess that makes me a leadfoot too.

It's not being helpful when you point out on the radio that someone is in the left lane (we can read) or how fast someone is driving...not your ticket not your business.

I felt safer in the bunk with my partner doing 80+ at nights than what I've seen during the day with drivers doing 60 to 65.

I'm an O/O you can tell by my truck simply because the only name on it is the name of our trucking company....not lease to anyone.

Not being ####y but when you can accept some words of help then don't worry about how I get the truck down the road. When I tell you I have no accidents, no tickets that means on both sides of my world personal and professional.

Not suppose to stand on the edge frame of the truck when it's running...well if your O/O sometimes you do things to figure out what the problem is, if she isn't running you can't fix it.

Hell we use to help each other on the road but somewhere we have the "me" attitude and that's gone to the wayside. Nobody wants to stop and see if they can help, hell most drives hit a deer anymore and they don't even check to make sure it's not lying on the side of road in misery.

Not ####y....just been doing this since dirt.

 

Talk about Karma....

 

Maybe if the helpers would say ask if the other driver was alright in a non-condescending tone . . .

I would not mind . . .

 

Replying to OTTER in regards to follwing another trucker to a terminal. I hope that trucker learned from that experience because one day he will tick someone off that will may not hesitate to beat/shoot/kill him. You never know. I once had a guy in a small sports car flip me the bird because I got ahead of him, guess he thought I would feel like a heel and back off and let him get ahead, nope, I followed him for over 1/2 hr, I could tell he was getting nervous and probably realized he may have flipped off a psycho, which I am not. I am active duty military who carries a gun to protect myself on the road, but I wanted him to feel scared so he too could learn from the experience, I could have shot at him or worse. This is another reason why I usually let peopled do stupid things they wish to do on the road, provided it will not affect me or my family as I drive. I remember one other case on I-75 South of Macon, GA. 4-5 cars were speeding really fast all at once, guess they were college kids going home?? I stayed at the speed of 65, about 5 miles down the road, all of them were pulled over by separate police cars, I kept going at my speed, smiling, hoping they learned their lesson as well.

 

Otter,I agree with most everything you have said.I started in trucking in 1980 and didn't have a clue about most things regarding trucking.I never hesitated to ask someone if I had a problem.I gave many thanks to experienced truckers for their help.I gained experience and shared that with the new ones just starting over the years.

I have always posted on this site with honesty and the experiences that I have had and some legal issues.It's no more than helping someone broke down on the road or answering a question about trucking.I do have a simple question for you.You stated in your first post that you got a message on your qualcomm in the early eighties.Qualcomm didn't exist in the early eighties.It came out in 1988(omnitrac)and Schneider National was their first customer a few months later.So again,a simple question,how did you get a omnitracs message in your truck when it didn't exist at the time.All I had was a pay phone.

 

He knew Doc?

 

When I flew A-4's in the Navy, we were on a training mission over the Sierra Nevada's. We spotted a smoking hole & called it in. Took the civilians 2-days before they looked for it. Turned out that one of the passengers would have lived if the civilians would have made a better effort. Our guys on the ground reported it to the civilians within 3-minutes too. I think that was something like 1967 or 8.