Trucking Magazines

I did not read trucker magazines. I picked up a couple to browse in Binghampton NY once. Find out they are full of ... management level pron type selling so that they can decide to spend money to save a dollar on your driver issued rig. There was nothing for the driver in those rags.

There is one publication I followed very much. "The Trucker" a small Newspaper published regularly. And also the Kansas City Starr which is a daily newspaper that fights for truckers from time to time.

 

Perfectly correct that this is on page 69. Coincidence? I think not.

 

Every day, without fail, something interesting happens. Every single day. Doesn’t matter if you run OTR or local. Yet some people feel the need to lie about their life. Is their life so uninteresting that they have to make stuff up? And why is it that they feel the need to lie to people and convince them that they’re some sort of dangerous espionage type person? If you’re the toughest guy on your block, would you feel need to tell everyone when you’re not on your block?

“Yep, pulled this secret, high security goobermint load, couldn’t stop...not even for fuel. I was running down the road and this pickup truck pulled alongside me with this tank on the back and they filled my tanks as we ran down the big road at triple digit speed.”

Sure they did. If the load was that important, they would have put it on a plane.

 

Now six, you just destroyed my faith. I always felt better as a trucker when I thought I was around a bunch of seal team six members hauling classified loads.

 

I stopped reading them years ago.
All it does it make me depressed.
It's the same #### all the time.

A new regulation on drivers,
A new toll road somewhere,
Another town wants to ban all trucks,
Blah,blah,blah.

 

You said, “ TRUCKER.”

Are you referring to one of those guys that were like the organic part of a 80000lb machine, tough as nails that could consistently every day or the week, pound those miles out, to hell with anything that Mother Nature could put in their path? You actually don’t see too many Machines anymore. Yeah, back in the day when you could could run a truck without having it break down and in the shop every, you would see machines out here, but there’s really no point since the truck is going to have to be serviced by a shop 3-4 days a week.

Or were you referring to one of those demonic person that were normally given the load to Hell? You don’t see the Demons too much anymore because the snowflakes find them threatening.

 

I was referring to me.

 

Machine or Demon?

 

I think that depends on who you ask!

 

In the thread about the hood mirror, a Machine would notice it missing, make a mental adjustment and note to self not to look at this mirror and keep on truckin. A Demon wouldn’t notice the mirror was missing until he returned from Hell.