Love's Rewards Platinum vs Diamond benefits?

Maybe, Maybe not. I'm just glad to have found someone that admits Obama is a socialists that voted for him. LOL

 

If I’m not going to be inside longer than it would take someone to fuel I’m not going to bother with a proper spot. That being said, I think a lot of people camp on the island when there is plenty of parking.

 

New trucker. I was trained to never take up the fuel slot and always pull up before getting food, but not to park unless I'm going to be a while because we're new and the chance of accident while backing is high.

 

I used to work in retail management. They actually don't say that to be polite - it's a loss prevention strategy. It makes the person walking into the store know that an employee has acknowledged their presence and that the customer is not invisible - the theory being that a person is less likely to steal if an employee interacts and acknowledges them.

 

Hey I've been driving for 5 years now and I'll say this. If you are backing the only reason you have a accident is because you were to scared to ask the guy sitting next to you to spot you. Guess what brother if in already in a hole and I see you backing and it looks like your having trouble I'll get out and help. Me being to lazy to assist a fellow driver backing and that driver causing damage to my truck is stupid on my part!!! I've seen student driver trying to back in a spot for 15 min when asked where his trainer was he replied og he went to get food inside and told me to park. It only took 2 "fellow" driver to help this kid out and he was parked in less that 2 min accident free.

Drivers need to remember that were all in this field together for the love of God we need to be helping each other out like driver used to. That's what I believe one of the biggest problems I'm trucking now days is that the drivers lost the connection to help and care for each other like they did 10 years ago.

 

I'm the 1 in 10. I always thank the pros when they hep me out. as a noobie I am very grateful for them.

Also, on my 2-3rd night out as a solo driver earlier this year, I could've cried when a driver helped me back into a spot after driving 10.5 hours, and it being early March, with snow, and freezing temps, and I was very tired.........

I must've thanked him about 15 times. No, really, I just kept saying thank you over and over again. It was like I was in a state of delusion with the combination of joy, exhaustion and freezing.

On a side note, there was a thread on here the other day about a Hispanic driver handing a forum member their phone, with a translator demanding that the forum member move his truck because the non English Hispanic driver couldn't back.

I guess it's drivers like that who you were referring to in your post, Tscottme. No respect.

Well, I was in Florida in winter haven earlier this week. A Hispanic guy came up speaking Spanish to me. My Spanish is rusty, but I did study it in college and can speak it, though I make many grammatical mistakes.

Turns out he didn't know how to set the reefer temperature. It was a weird reefer control box, but the basic concepts were the same.

I spoke Spanish when I had to, and he spoke English when he had to. I got it figured out for him. He thanked me in English afterwards and shook my hand. He must've been about 15 years my senior.

It all goes back to the man who helped me back into my spot on that freezing night. He started the chain. And the chain cannot be broken. While I'm noobie, I will always gladly do what I can to help fellow drivers out. As long as there's respect, I will reciprocate the respect and do what I can to help.

 

Some of that may have cost points to pay for.
If I scan my card and don't have a free drink, it just deducts the points. They don't ask or tell, they just say have a nice day.