Air Horn gestures from little Kids (Keep tradition alive)

I used to be an advocate for honking horns for kids and old people. No anymore. After seeing the destruction and lives of countless families totally ruined, I know better than to contribute to the horn honk epidemic .

I was leased onto Grey Hound Bus Lines after I lost my contract with Trailways Transportation System out of VA. Greyhound had better runs anyway and I ended up on a dedicated run.

I'd run a load of Mexicans from Nogales up into Grand Rapids, MI over to the apple orchards, then get a back haul of Muslins outta Detroit over to Jersey. Unload/reload right at the same Terminal there at Bayonne then take a load of old retirement east coasters down to Phoenix and kick'em off.

I made that triangle twice a week on the 1988 MCI with the silver 92TTA and 6x4 transmission, on 12R 24.5 rubber....yeah...she'd scream. I decided to mount 2 sets of train horns with 1" airline plumbed to them from a 100 gallon tank on it because I really enjoyed watching the reaction of the children crying tears of joy from 194 sweet decibels of raw sound, the old folks waving and yelling "luck you!" And "you mother trucker!!" (Even tho they usually didnt make sense, I appreciated the gesture) and many a golfer gave me signs of support and approval. I suspected most were def and used sign language.

All until the fatal day i drove across a bridge in Minneapolis. I saw some kids standing out there bout midway across on the I-35W....they were pumping them arms, I grabbed that 1" ball valve handle, gave a big shot of air to the horns, next thing I knew, the bridge was coming down behind me. I stepped on the throttle of that Extended rear hood MCI bus...black smoke rollin like coal out the back, tires squealing piling up the pavement and leveled off at around 65psi of boost, we made it out alive. But the destruction that lay around me was unspeakable. I ripped them horns off, dug a big hole and buried those suckers NEVER to be used again. Man has not yet proven we are ready for that technology.

 

Honestly, I've had people in there 20s and 30s come past me doing that and I thought the exact same thing you did.

I took as them being smartarses so I dont bother

 

Reading up on your past it occurred to me that we’ve actually met. One time you were supposed to do a turn at the Greyhound in Little Rock. If I remember correctly, the original driver had gotten drunk at Graceland on Elvis’s death anniversary. You picked me up in Memphis at MS Carriers . Let’s take a trip down memory lane, shall we?

Here you are getting out to stretch your legs and let the air pressure rebuild, you had driven 23 hours straight.



You picked me up at the MS Carriers terminal to take me to meet my team driver @Humblepie who was being released from jail in California.


I asked you why you drove with one hand on the wheel. You said it was so you could reach the 1 inch ball valve and hit the train horns. We ran several folks off the road. Good Times!


Here we are picking up Humble from jail, setting out to split that .26 cpm. We were living the dream!!!

 

Get the f out. Are you really our bus driver? I really don’t remember much about the trip. I was still pretty buzzed on that pruno my cellie made for my release party. I remember the bus driver was cool as heck. He chewed on toothpicks and was rocking out to a Mac Davis tape.

 

interesting concept i never thouht of, I own one truck and leave my house at 630 am and get back to my farm by 4pm everyday and run 5-6 days a week. off 3 months a year and bring home 150k a year. ALll that with my old 379. Spent 15k on fuel. Yeah stay in school kids and good luck with beating my lifestyle

 

Wait, that was YOU?

I remember picking you guys up and @Humblepie looked at you at first and said: "you're crazy for takin the bus!"

You replied: "well I'm crazy, so what's the fuss???"

Humblepie: "2 whole days on that stinking bus??"

You: "yes, and I sleep fine. So you take the plane and I'll take the bus this time!"

Boys, we rolled straight outta little rock to Salt Lake city so you fellas could get in that Diamond Reo Cabover and start grabbing gears. Hell I rolled on out to Oakland and picked a load of Hells Angels and hauled them down to Vegas to a turf war with the Mongols at the casino. Man those were the days.

Hey, were those white pills Humblepie smuggled outta jail really "speed" or were they fake? One them Hells Angels laughed and told me they were birth control pills

 

Well Hells Angels aught to know what birth control looks like. They are a bunch of Nancy’s. I remember that. Some ol’ boy got all insane, and hit me in the head with a Harley chain. You remember when we left Vegas and went to Billy Bob’s Texas

 

I dont know if that ol 2 stroke Detroit ever saw harder miles than that trip, except when I out ran an Arizona state patrol. I was running bird dog for the Southern Shaker good ol Eddie Gantt. Shaker made a good pass down there on I-10, but it wasn't good enough for my big grey dog.