Am I a total tool bag?

You are nice.

REALLY REALLY NICE. Compassionate and so on. TOO nice. You follow me?

It is fortunate you told that little pipsqueak to buzz off. If HE is in the mountain truckstop wanting lessons in driving following you, I tell him he aint following ME or nobody. SORRY. You drive, you learn by doing. Man up. Wipe your sniffling. Get going yer late.

Second problem.

How in tarnation does Pipsqueak know he HEARD YOU SPECIFICALLY from the tower of babel that is a CB around a truckstop from inside a freaking Dining hall, arcade, or payphone area etc? Tell me that. HA. He heard ####. Maybe he cold read you as a tool. Too nice to be smart about anything and fall for him. HA...

At least you told him off.... Don't follow me etc.

Third problem.

That pipsqueak's job status with Mad Mad DM is HIS PROBLEM. NOT YOURN. What do you give a ####? So sad, he might get fired AWW POOR THING... //sarcasm. He is big boy now, drive a big truck toy that far up the hill and maybe get fired because DM says go and he does not have the balls to say no properly. He needs a lesson in that.

Forth Problem.

In my later days of trucking I do not talk to people inside truckstops, fuel lines or no where. HOWDY... CAN YOU HELP ME WITH (insert BS Sob story....)


Me: NO. Beat it. I don't have anything for you and even less time... git.

And what develops from there will depend on what the Mr Sob Story wants to do about that little flat rejection.

The problem is this.

I'm nice. Im too nice. I cry myself to sleep that night because I ripped Mr Sob Story. But ###### if anyone going to see me doing that. Eff it.

Follow me?

I say this. There has been times once in a great eon and passage of time in this life someone is in need of a LITTLE help.

If I STOPPED like I did to HELP when I did, surely the Lord shall laugh in his Joyful acclamation that person finally got help. But I would not hear about that for a long time anyhow. /slight sarcasm. But I am happy that one DID get a little help NOW and THEN. Its seriously rare.

 

You are welcome.

People are difficult in the truckstop. And it's unfortunate. I cannot hardly get into say Highland Rest Area in South Chicago Toll Road without 50 people stopping me for money, gas, more money, or change a diaper on the baby, help make a call on my card and so on before I reach the doors. Which is a problem of pickpockets, predators and so on. You think with the way they seem to put on airs and show that I am some how the second coming to rescue them from all the crap in their sorry lives in that filthy rest stop... Why did I ever stop?

And you wonder why I no longer stop in places like that. I cannot hardly turn around in a people place where I am seen as a target to be taken advantage of in some way.

Take care of yourself. You are a Daddy to your family. They come first. Everyone else is on their own.

Good luck.

By the way I apologize sometimes for my novels. It's really hard to convert the situation from one language to another. English is pretty good but it's.. inadequate sometimes.

One last thing. It's ok to feel like a dick sometimes. If you did not, you aint human. Follow me?

 

I probably would have let him follow me, after signing a disclaimer that released me from any liability should he have trouble.

 

I would have so much fun with that. Betting he aint got what it takes to run with me. But.. it's not nice. I don't think. he he he. I do love me a good challenge.

 

You maybe a tool! Just not the whole tool bag.
I'm kidding.

I don't know that area of the Country. I do know that I hate following or being followed. Even if the person is a fellow company driver. I can't imagine having someone I have never met, from a different company, skills unknown, over some sketchy mountain or pass following me.


As for the flatbed. You did more than most would have, and you had to go.

 

I have not worked on the flatbed problem. But I guess if you gotta go, you gotta go.

Gotta go, gotta go. That durn ELD. tick tock.

 

Voted before reading

 

No good deed goes unpunished. Sometimes if you stop and help, you're only opening a barrel of monkeys. Telling him where to get good chaining vids is a help. They'll also tell you to go slow and don't rush. But if he follows you and runs into your rear end, then you'll be the one stuck on the side of the road with him. If his company wants his noob butt to attempt that hill in the snow for the first time, then he's either working for a bad company, or should just get up some nerve and do it.
Sorry about the flatbed guy too, but it's not like you can tow him down the hill, and this is part of what happens as an owner operator. All we can do is make sure they got water, food and won't freeze to death, and then we gotta keep on with our own lives. If a tool in your kit or a spare part would help him, that's one thing, but it's not like you can sit with him til the tow truck comes.