A Picture of My First Company Truck

Diesel Dave · May 7, 2011

Southern Star said: ↑

Yea, I ran from 91 to about 95 or 96 thereabouts. Got out of trucking and into software developement.

I designed and wrote an application for the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Admin in Washington DC. It allows post crash inspectors to enter data on post crash CMVs. It's used in all 50 states by State inspectors.

I recently returned to trucking. All my debts are paid and to be honest, I'm only trucking now for retirement. I'm currently 44 years young, plan to truck for the next 20 years and retire, unless I hit the lottery, which then I'll only truck for the next 15 mins before I retire.

I drove out the Halifax NC terminal for BT. This was back when the Gayes owned the company, Charlie Gaye I think his name was...

Anway, I was going to transfer down to the Lumberton terminal, but for some reason they wouldn't let me even though it was 2 hours closer to my house. Lumberton was short haul at that time. Its doesn't exist today.

I often wondered what happened to Builders Transport. They were a pretty big outfit when I drove for them. If I'm not mistaken, I believe somebody bought the company and its based out of Tennessee now.

Tommy was my trainers name at the Halifax terminal. He was a mulatto and always wore his cap sideways, one the most decent men I've ever had the priveledge to meet. He was an "old school" driver himself, nearly ready for retirement from BT.

He told me a story of a trainee he once had. He was a young kid and had never played the lottery. So Tommy explained to him how to play. So they bought a ticket together at the next truck stop and Tommy told him they'd check the USA Today newspaper to see the winning numbers when the drawing was held. Well, that was on a Monday and the drawing wasn't until Wednesday so it turned out that Tommy happened to be driving that Thursday and the trainee was asleep in the sleeper. Tommy pulls in the Truckstop for fuel and cigarettes etc and gets the USA today paper. He comes back out to the truck and notices the lottery ticket on the dash and looks up the winning numbers in the paper and naturally they didn't win. But before he left the truckstop, he goes back inside and buys a new ticket with the winning number from out of the paper and puts it on the dash.

Well, a few hours later, the trainee wakes up and after a few minutes Tommy tells him he bought the paper but hasn't had time to check the winning number and for him to look it up. So the trainee finds the lottery drawing results in the paper and looks at the ticket (which Tommy had put on the dash) and man he went crazy! "WE WON! WE WON! #### WE'RE RICH" Tommy went along with him and they all talked about what they were going to do with all that money. So after a few more miles, Tommy says he's going to pull the truck into the truckstop and call the company. He takes the lottery ticket and rolls it up and puts in the driver side sun visor and tells the trainee "I'm going to put the ticket right here. Stay with the truck until I get back." Tommy goes inside truckstop and about a half hour later comes back out and the ticket, the trainee, and all the trainee's stuff are gone.

He looked everywhere for the trainee and couldn't find him. He had done left with the bogus lottery ticket, deciding he wasn't going to split the winnings with Tommy.

Tommy called the company and told them his trainee had disappeared.
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LMAO.........

ECU51 · May 7, 2011

I ran out of Halifax also,,,until they closed it and moved us down to Lumberton,( i pulled 3 loads of triple stack flatbeds down and 2 loads of wrecked trucks and gear...
Was there until the unfortunate ending and the calamity of Schnieder buyout

Was running Lowes dedicated until the end,some of the best driving i ever did,loved running Lowes it was simple and home every weekend(cant find jobs like that anymore it seems...

Southern Star · May 8, 2011

Is that who bought BT? I knew they got bought, but I didn't know it was Schneider. Should have known. Don Schneider has more money than God.

sw1241 · May 9, 2011

A late 60,s Dodge cabover, 55 mph max with a tailwind

JackMac · May 9, 2011

Southern Star said: ↑

Did it look something like this?

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Yeah you got it Bro, I think it was an '83 or '86 R Model with the split shifters, painted all green enamel with Gold Lettering. Hauled Diesel fuel, #4 and #6 fuel Oil and in the summer I hauled Bulk sand, lime and sandblast material.

Hard Frigggin work, long hours and an honest paycheck.

Gears · May 9, 2011

I drove one of those pulling a belly dump for an excavation company. I did not care for that shifter AT ALL!!

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