ATTENTION NEWBIES, And you OLD Hands too

Really? The Northeast is now the Holy Grail of ###### trucking? Only part of the Northeast I'd consider to be anything close to a trucker's nightmare is NYC and the boroughs, other than that it's a cake walk. Keep priding yourself on being strictly a Northeast driver.

 

Well, I don't agree with your reasoning.

I will agree that there are a lot of drivers out here that should be doing something else for a living, but I can't turn my back on them for that reason. What good does that do? Maybe by using your CB to let others know there's a problem up ahead maybe you can slow down at least one driver. Isn't it worth it?

Oh, and I'm from the Northeast, by the way. Lived there until this year. I drove an F9000 cab over all over the tri-state area (through the late 70's & 80's) so I know the NE quite well. Driving it is a piece of cake if you take your time and pay attention.

Good luck to you, driver. Stay safe out there.

 

Wow WSYROB - I saw your age and thought you were and old hand..haha.. I try to respect my elders but shesus - I was at Con-way 5 years before you started driving man - been at it for almost 12 if you wanna count Pa intra-state which certainly entitles me to an opinion... I run Richmond, Va from Harrisburg, Pa now and take a bit of offense.. The Southern clowns from Charlotte and Winston hold us up on a nightly basis when they show up 2 hours after what is an easy ETA to meet.. You Southern cats are something else..haha.. Back to NY/NJ for me next year..

Is Sparta down there next to Kingsport - Virgil Tibbs in the house?? Haha.. Sorry dude - I don't know much outside of the Northeast/Mid-Atlantic..

 

Sure is bud.. Give it a few years..haha..

You Southern boys are something else..haha..

 

Hey Southern boys.... There is a reason that silly flag you fly should be plain white.. Just hope all of YA'LL know that right..hehehe..

 

From what I noticed, Paddington here has it more or less nailed. I saw more idiotic, unprofessional, My "trailer" is bigger than yours behavior than I did anything that even closely resembled courtesy. Not that courtesy doesn't exist, it was just few and far between. It was actually SURPRISING when other drivers were courteous.

I was driving through New Mexico a few months back, came up on construction zone. Right lane closing ahead, and I throw my turn signal on (with plenty of time to get over- or so I thought). Another driver is screaming up in the left lane trying to get past as many people as he could before the road compressed down to 1 lane. Not that it would have done this idiot any good, or saved him an iota of time. He gets next to me and realizes that he's not got the room he thought, and he has put me in a precarious position. I start to back off thinkin "I'll just let this mouth breathing ###### get what he wants, I'm in no rush". Nope, he nails it down so I can get ahead. So I react to that and accelerate. There was room for me to get over, and as I'm merging I see a bunch of brake lights come on in front of me. The 4 wheelers were slowin way down (as they should have been). I needed to slow down to keep a safety buffer between me and the 4 wheelers, just in case something stupid happens. Well, just so happens Mr "Super Truck" was still right up behind me and my brake tap sent him into a fit of "YOU F'IN IDIOT WTF ARE YOU DOING YOU STUPID F YOU HAD PLENTY OF FIN ROOM".

Moron got pissed at me for a situation HE created by trying to pass at an exceptionally stupid time. I guess he hadn't seen all of the orange signs giving AMPLE warning of the lane closure, speed limit changes, etc.


As for myself, I always tried to keep a low profile, stay out of the way in my 62mph truck, be courteous etc. Follow the old "Pay it Forward" mindset.

 

It is what it is right.. I was born 12/01/1980 so I am 29 years old. That's great I strike you as the type that will be dead soon but it won't be behind the wheel of a set unless it's all out of my hands. If that happens, I suppose there is nothing I can do about it right.. I don't like Southern people as a NYC native and 9 years of class A in December definitely entitles me to a strong opinion about driving. There are very few drivers my age with that type of time behind the wheel let alone 7 years pulling sets with a good LTL company..

I'm very very open about who I am. I'm a 29 year old Con-way Freight line-haul driver up North that gave up a chemistry degree at Penn State to start driving with big plans. Just figured it out early and started this job at 22.. Maybe you would but I don't consider myself a rookie driver - far from it dude. I have Ohio triples and have pulled sets across the worst roads Pa has to offer in the winter all accident free.. Being conservative I'm probably around 800,000 total miles because of my time bumping 10 docks per day as a P&D driver right.. I can handle a Con-way truck no matter what is behind it..