Dumbest questions you have been asked at a truck stop

He's special ain't he?

 

Had a parasite stick his finger into the plate and food in KC north one fine evening. He got arrested while I got talked down from indulging in a bit of exquisite violence applied to same. Truckstop fell all over themselves to replace the food, rip the bill up and serve better fare. They did well, but are no longer in business. I don't do KC that much.

 

Fueling at the flying j when the same guy who approached me earlier says "I'm not asking for money but can I polish your wheels and tanks for a few bucks?" #### no.

 

A panhandler once asked me (as I'm getting out of my truck), "so, you drive a truck huh?"

 

Last summer had a large unkept woman, with 2 snotty nosed kids, a drooling rottweiler with gas. Ask if she could clean up the inside of my cab. I didn't have to think long on that one.

 

Wasn't at a truck stop but this one still makes me shake my head.... when I started with Marten I had 5 months and some change experience, just short of their 6 month requirement, so they sent me out with a trainer for a few weeks. We had just pulled into their yard near Stockton I think, one they share with CRE. Anyway, this shiny new Cascadia pulls up in front of us and this guy stops and gets out. Says to us, "Hey, does this sound bad to you?" He hops in and hits his service brakes. You would think, from the cloud of dust being blown out from under his front axles, that his parking brakes were under there and he just set them. Me and the trainer just looked at each other. My trainer says, "Ayup, that's a pretty major air leak you got there...."

Turns out he just leased the truck, just finished training in it (with one of their "mobile, in truck trainers") and had brought a 45k lb load from SLC to Stockton.... and complaining the whole way how he couldn't maintain air pressure anytime he used his brakes.... across I80... and Donner... as a newb....

Gotta hand it to him though, he enjoyed the trip and made if ok.

 

Haha, shoulda said, "Nope, most days it drives me...."

 

Some guy came up with a scale ticket and asked if he could slide the tandems to make it legal. His thumb was covering up the gross weight, it was about 1200 over gross.

He was in his 50's and didn't strike me as bieng green. I think he was just messing around to have fun with people.

 

Its the smell of money!

 

Standing in line at the store counter. Leaving a little room for people to walk past. The dude behind me asks "Are you in line?"