What exactly are 'super truckers' in trucking

I've had more lights on a F-450 dually.

Now can I get my super trucker status plz?

 

Granted!

 

I don't understand the fixation on trucks with chicken lights, chrome, and such. Personal taste aside, I see that as a driver signaling his independence and that he can do whatever he wants with his vehicle.

Chicken lights on a company truck, that's a supertrucker.

 

they're just jealous

 

Pretty much the case.

 

I find it funny that the CAT scale tickets gives you an ad for being a super-trucker like its a good thing. Derp.

 

That tends to happen with people who drive trucks that can’t average 60 mph.

 

My buddy told me some funny qualifications to be a super trucker:

1. They don't know how to hang the DEF pump up to start the diesel pump, which makes them upset.

2. They drink coffee before they go to bed.

3. Elogs are their kryptonite

4.They use Brute after-shave and try to say it's cologne

 

Yesterday
Today
and
Tomorrow
and
The words we used then
The words we use now
and
The words we'll use tomorrow.

Many of the basic words we've used in the past to get a point across wouldn't work today. Just as some of the words we use today to describe things probably will have different definitions. They could even be 180 degrees apart.

I was taught that words have meaning and the importance of selecting the proper word(s), especially when it's imperative that the subject be correctly presented so as to be understood by all involved in a conversation.

Words seem to evolve over the years though.
When I wore the clothes of a younger man, if someone were to opine, "WoW! Your car looks really bad, man." --- they had better duck the punch headed for their nose.

Fast forward a decade or two, the word "bad" is a way to describe something that's good.

Another example, --- Burt Reynolds starred in movies as a Big truck truck driver. From those scripts we got "rubber duckie" and "10-4, Good Buddy." A way to make known that a person was a fine friend, a "buddy."
And that sentiment evolved into a form of identifying folks who have a preference for members of the same sex, --- usually male.

Now-a-daze, if a 70 to 75 year-old former trucker on vacation, --- traveling by motor car, decided to stop at a truck stop, ...... uhhhh, ....
I mean Travel Plaza, for old time sake, he'd be inclined to be friendly to the new breed of truckers, and figuring it would be a friendly gesture to strike up a conversation with a burly dude examining polished aluminum Big truck dress-up parts, or diamond studded toggle switch extensions, at the candy store located within the Iowa 80 T/A, by greeting him with a, "HeY, Good Buddy. See anything you want"?

See where I'm goin' with this?

Another example of the evolution of words has to be a word that was seldom uttered in public, --- mostly out of respect for those who might be within close proximity and able to hear a word that was considered to be in poor taste when spoken in mixed company. It just wasn't what respectable folks would say out loud, or even think about it, silently.

From obscurity, the word became what just might be the most versatile word in the English language. It can be used as a noun, a verb, --- to describe something that's very good, or something really bad. The word can even be used multiple times in the same sentence and can be interchangeable in meaning within the same sentence as well.

Additionally, it can be confrontational, --- to invoke violence, or used to emphasize how magnificent someone is, or an object. A word that, now-a-daze, is hard to avoid hearing from others, who use it casually. Men, woman, and even kids use the word on a daily basis. Where, in the past, if anyone else happened to hear the word spoken by others during their conversation, they were offended and made their displeasure known, with a demand to refrain followed by a threat to make the speaker sorry if the word was spoken again.

The "F-BomB."
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And a word comprised of initials to shorten it's important message/warning and the manner in which a product should be shipped went from there to the bad word list.

The product was fertilizer and it was transported by ship by the tons. However, the ships that were heavily loaded with the new product were disappearing without a trace quite often and nobody knew the reason why.

Once aboard ship, lowered below deck in the cargo hold and secured for transporting, it didn't require special attention. Actually it was rather ship friendly as it provided ballast for the transporting ship which was beneficial.

Once loaded aboard ship and secured for the voyage, it could pretty much be forgotten, and it was, --- except for the night-shift inspection that a watchman with a lantern had a duty to go below deck to the cargo hold and have a look around, ---- like a pre-trip, -- post-trip inspection. Make sure things are as they should be.

Which, ordinarily, things were. Even on stormy days and nights, those burlap bags of fertilizer rode well and didn't move around as lighter cargo was prone to doing. 'Bout the only thing is that sometimes that load got wet when waves broke over the ship and found it's way into the cargo hold below deck.

It was only fertilizer though. What harm is there if it got a little wet? There were other things to be concerned about instead, --- like where are the ships haulin' fertilizer goin' when they keep disappearing without a trace or a clue, --- never to be seen again.
Baffling and mind blowing, a complete mystery and nobody had an answer, ........... until, -----
an important discovery was made. Unknown at the time, when fertilizer, (bovine excrement) is mixed with water it produces something called "gas" --- Methane gas, to be precise.

It was also discovered that Methane gas produced when the fertilizer was wet, was also very explosive, particularly when concentrated in a poorly ventilated enclosure, like the cargo hold aboard ship.
But what would cause it to just up and explode for no reason?

Remember the duty of the night watchman?
You know, the dude with a lantern that inspected the cargo hold. A lantern with a flame.
YeaH, him.
Just a simple super sailor doin' a super job.

From that point on, fertilizer loads were to be
S hipped
H igh
I n
T ransit.

That's a lot to write and a lot to read, and there were longshoremen who couldn't read real well, --- so the instructions on fertilizer loads was shortened to just the initials.
*See Above*
(I don't want the word filter to ding me for skirtin' 'round it. Word filters can be so sensitive.
Don't'cha know.

So, ......... now that I've successfully managed to make a short story longer, I probably should get to the point I intended to make.
Now, ........ what I'm about to type is my personal opinion, of course. Some folks might agree. It's also possible that someone will present an all together different opinion that could cause me to change my opinion in favor of theirs.
My ultimate goal in any given matter is to find and recognize the truth of the matter.
Nothin' else really matters.
That being said, ....... in my experiences that have allowed me to collect over a million mile-markers, some of which were covered more quickly thanx, in part, to piloting a triple digit Big truck while still maintaining a blemish free CDL-A with all the endorsements. During that time, I passed a lot of that time bumpin' elbows with Owner/Operators, Independent Contractors, and Small Fleet Owners who have proven that they're capable of succeedin' in the Big truck truckin' industry by actually doin' it.

I've come to the conclusion that a gen-U-wine
Super Trucker will never make that claim themselves or expect others to think that they are. Like Captain Scully said after successfully landing an airliner full of passengers on the Hudson River while the control tower insisted that he continue flying the plane with no jet engines runnin' to sustain flight, back to the airport where it would be more convenient for everyone. He disobeyed orders and was celebrated a "Hero".
The airline had plans to have him go on tour so the airline could brag about employing a hero, but Capt. Scully would have none of that.
"Just doin' my job, that's all."
Super Pilots don't want special treatment, and I don't think a real Super Trucker would either.
It's just what they do, and that makes 'em what they are.
Nothin' less, --- nuthin' more.

WE know they're Super, but we also know that's not how they want to be known. Their own expectations of self drives 'em to excellence. They don't require an incentive or encouragement to excel.
Just leave 'em alone and they'll do their own thing on their own, and excel to Super status along the way.

The title of "Super" isn't claimed by them.
It's what those in the know, know that Super is, and they know WHO's a gen-U-Wine, "Super". It's one's peers who bestow the title on those who really are Super.
Not the "Super" themselves.

So, YeS, Virginia.
There really are Super Truckers runnin' among us. The title is a complement and recognition of excellence.

Awwww ShuX!
Got his shoes wet.
Dang-Nabbitt!

 

Yeah I forgot to pump my DEF which screwed up the next driver--