Am I A Real Trucker?

Just tell your companies safety officer it's hurting your back, you need a new seat or a doctor. Bet you get a new seat.

 

Yeah!
Back when a good dispatcher could keep track of the fleet with a spreadsheet and a pencil and he knew where every truck was and the drivers called in twice a day and knew where they were going next ahead of time.
Back when you could grab a snotty dispatcher by his necktie and yank him over the desk or through the window and not get fired for it!

Things sure have changed.

Man......., I sure do miss the old days!

 

That actually was pretty cool Mike, I have never seen a ERB hotshot truck before, just their trailers here and there.

 

I talked to an Erb driver at a pickup a couple years ago and he said Erb was getting into the straight truck business. For a while Schneider, JB Hunt and Erb were all getting into the straight truck business.

the guy from Erb I talked to said the terminal he worked out of was the only terminal that didn’t yet have straight trucks. But every other terminal had them.

 

We all started somewhere, my experience ranges from the 5 tons I wrenched on and drove in the service, to my first straight truck p&d job in the civilian world, then my first LTL job dock/hostling, then getting the cdl and tractor/trailer p&d to eventually transitioning to linehaul and pulling doubles/triples trailers, as far as I am concerned there is no REAL truck drivers, it's about how you do your job and how well you are at it that matters, the equipment is irrelevant, I saw plenty of so called REAL truck drivers who sat and clogged up chain up areas on Donner Summit because they refused to chain up, so that kills that argument right there, my point is there is no need to look down at others, especially if they are doing a job you started your career in, don't ever forget where you came from.