An old man's career goes flat, Snackbar moves to open deck

There weren't condo trucks in the old day. 36" coffin sleeper or a cabover weren't a lot of fun to spend a day or 2 in. No tv's, internet, or video games. Different world now.

 

I started driving back in 1969 and yes there weren't all the frills that some drivers are used to today. No bunks, a/c, p/s or auto trans. The Pure and Union 76 truck stops had driver rooms on the second floor that were a single bed and a chair with an alarm on the wall to set but they were like $5-10 a night. Those were a luxury if you could get one of those rooms as most nights were spent on a piece of plywood and pillow that was across the seats with the windows open in warm weather or the engine on and the heater running fan on high when it was cold. You also could afford a good hot meal in the sit down restaurant. I am 75 and can still remember those days and appreciate every one compared to today.

 

Go on. Next you'll be telling us it was made of actual food!

 

@navypoppop are yall at the new place in Dothan yet? I slide by there almost weekly bringing rock back to Florida.

 

I did pop into the restaurant attached to the TS and had the all day brunch buffet. I was wanting a cheeseburger but the buffet was the only option. It was good, I ate entirely too much, napped the rest of the day. Sometimes it’s hard being a truck driver.

I came over to the loves in box elder to get these #### trailer lights looked at. I’ve been blowing fuses ever since I picked it up and now the 3 ID lights on the back are not working at all. Of course I check in at 7 am and there’s one mechanic and 3 trucks and a road call ahead of me. Joy.

 

Not yet. We will arrive on Feb 1 and make that our permanent move.

 

Sounds like a detention day to me!

as far as I know they haven’t changed anything on the speed limit. I’ve only had that camera tell me to slow down one time. I was doing the speed limit on some random back road in an industrial area.

got the lights “fixed” on the trailer I swapped to another driver. We couldn’t find the short so we stole power from the tail light circuit. Good enough for a 8 year old rust bucket I guess.