ATTENTION NEWBIES, And you OLD Hands too

Wouldn't it be nice to pass that information on to your fellow drivers? It might actually save someone's life.

We're all suppose to be on the same team here.

 

Thanks Doc for that whole message. One thing I think you left out is the proper way to signal a driver is to flash them off and on.

NOT HIGH LOW!

I don't know where that maneuver came from but it is most aggravating. When drivers flash their high beams, I just ignore them.

Thanks Again

 

Ha ha.. Typical driver crap.. No driver, we still call each other - a UPSF driver called the Con-way driver ahead of me and we called back to the FedEx Freight drivers since they run a little later than us here. Thursday night it was a beautiful thing - probably 15-20 sets of doubles notching about 5 miles worth of traffic 3 times because we communicate and help each other.. (not sharing our local with a soul because an OTR driver has never helped me right..)

I'm starting to think you hate the fact that even though we're competitive about our jobs and don't like the competition company wise we still help each other out as drivers.. It was a FedEx Freight driver that helped me throw some chains last year during the snowpacalypse so I could get up a hill..

Cell phone laws or not I'll always call my friends at Con-way, FedEx, UPSF, UPS Parcel, and Estes to get around a back up..

BTW.. Where is Kingsport? Isn't that like an island in Jamaica? I was there once on a cruise..

 

So, let me see if I got this right. The LTL guys help the LTL guys, but not the OTR guys because the LTL guys think the OTR guys hate 'em............

 

Yea i have to hit 1 myself everynight!

 

"Cell phone laws or not I'll always call my friends at Con-way, FedEx, UPSF, UPS Parcel, and Estes to get around a back up."

Isn't the back up usally caused by a turned over set of Fed X doubles?

 

Nope.. I tried that for a little while as a naive driver here.. Gimme a break about saving a life. Trucks are the worst offenders when it comes to dangerous driving situations. I see it daily on I95 - truck tailgates car at 70 MPH because he thinks the car should move over because he hasn't showered in 62 days and has to make Baltimore.. I want to move over to let cars merge at the Quantico exit and a truck sticks me while riding an inch of the bumper in front of him.. No wonder we're such a target - morons like that encourage lawsuits.

I don't really care for 90% of the drivers I run into out here other than the other drivers pulling sets with LTL or parcel outfits. I'm not a rookie dude - not that I'm an old timer but I've been at this company for 7 years and driving for 9 with an A and 12 with an A/B but couldn't leave Pa.

I always get a kick out of you new drivers telling me how it should be..haha.. Gimme a break... I'm sure all of the 20 year drivers will have something to say but it is what it is right.. Unless you've run in the Northeast the entire time as I have I don't really want to hear it..

 

Haha.. You got me.. I guess I need to get a tech update since you are indeed correct that I quoted the wrong post.. You do indeed have me there.. I guess I need to find another job as well since I was not paid by the hour to sit during the snowpacalypse.. I did this instead on Super Sunday for mileage..

No joke man, it sucked.. In my previous 6 years at that time working for Con-way Freight and I guess what is really 4 years before Con-way I never faced roads like that even though I grew up driving in Erie, Pa..


A couple pics from my house during the snowpacolypse..



It is what it is man.. My set doesn't swerve unless I'm on ice with a phone to my ear right..haha..