Disappointed in my fellow drivers.

My first experience in New Jersey was getting off on famous highway 9. I was in a new medium duty with a Featherlite that had cool graphics. In traffic, two girls pulled up bedside me. The passenger rolled her window down. I thought she wanted to talk about the rig. She puked down the door.

 

This crap has been going on a long time, most drivers are too lazy and selfish to even move over one lane when there is a broke down truck.

This is what you get with easy licenses and revolving door employment.

 

Easy licenses? Please
Used to a written test for chauffeur

 

Lots of room on the shoulder and one more extinguisher was all we needed. Thankfully the cop got there in time.

 

Yeah and then it was a profession, we all seemed to stick together, and when someone broke down we didn't just roll by as close as we could get while flipping the driver off.

The last time I was on the side of the road checking chains and tightening up binders, it was on I-94 in Dearborn Michigan and you think all the trucks would move over, seeing there was no traffic in the Middle lane, but hell no, I had a few drivers coming so close I thought they would hit my truck, one rolled by laying on his air horn and flipping me off.

So this very rarely happened when I started to drive.

Different times, different attitude.

Since trucking has gotten complex, more traffic, more stupid regulations and rules, the purpose of the cdl was to promote some safety and some form of standards but what it did was open the door for companies to abuse their drivers, put some of them in indentured servatude. Built a wall between drivers and the company allowed more isolation.

 

He’s right.

I posted a few years back about hearing a crash while I was in a motel. I look out the window and I see a pickup truck come off the interstate, across the service road, catch sit and spiral, and land upside down on the cab of a pickup truck that was parked in the motel lot. I run downstairs, there’s 20 guys gathered around filming. The truck’s engine is racing. Fire starts. I grab my extinguisher, and knock the fire out. It flared back up. I knock it out. Guys are filming. I’m yelling at them to kill the engine, but 20 guys rather stand there and film. They would let a girl burn in a truck just to have something to post on facebook. They were drivers, their trucks were in the parking lot.

You cannot blame elogs for cowardice.


While I was using the fire extinguisher, there was a guy that ran up to get the girl out of the truck. He’s pulling at her seatbelt, trying to rip it by hand. I keep yelling at him to kill the engine, but he’s tugging at the seatbelt.

“Seriously Six?”

Yes, she’s upside down in a seatbelt, yes this fool is yanking at the seatbelt, NO, NO ONE IS STRONG ENOUGH TO RIP A SEATBELT 8N HALF BY HAND. Nobody carries a knife anymore either? They sell knives in every truck stop in North America and no one had a knife? Or were the blades too lazy to come out the pockets? What passes for “men” in the States is utterly repulsive.

Yeah, I know...”it’s not my problem/doesn’t concern me/ none of my business/ not worth me risking my life/ I’m on elogs/ it is against company policy to render aid to anyone.” Goeth intercourse thyselves, sissies of the sidewalk.

 

That's still a BS excuse IMO.

 

Jersey is much like any other major city in the US. It's all about me, me and more me. If something doesn't directly affect them they do not care. Take away their football, ice cream, pizza, TV, video games, movies, iPhones and or gasoline and they'll finally wake up. Ride the E train in NYC once or twice. It's brimming with hundreds of walking dead.