Embarrassed to be a truck driver....

I am right with you. I am actually embarrased for people to see me if I am on the phone while driving, even if I have my hands free. Your complaint is valid, just a quick run down on things drivers do that upset me:
-Not pulling off the fuel islands, or pulling ahead and then spending 15 minutes inside getting food.
-The cell phone as already mentioned
-Tailgating, or getting in front of me so I am tailgating them. I may not be the best driver but I like to be the safest.
-General bad behavior, jumping in line at a truck stop, not showering(flatbedders exempt)
-Everyone coming on the CB when a woman speaks. I was speaking on the CB when a voice comes on asking me if I want a date, the voice sounds old enough to be my mother if not my grandmother. After I decline politely I get accused of cheating on my wife because "everyone" does it.

Sorry to hijack. Please accept this tub of 5th wheel grease as offering.

 

tjo I dono man.. I pull forward.. go in to grab a burger or a sub.. and not waste time.. but you just can't park if your coming in late cause most places dont have any spots left.. and we all know the people at the counter aint the fastest lot

it's the people that pull forward and go take a shower that irk me..

or the guy at the fuel island who pulls into your lane from his then walks past you you roll your window down and hollar out oh come on man I've got to get rolling.. he then proceeds to tell you I gotta go pay for my fuel and walks into the store to pay.. walks out 20 mins later


Or the guy who rushes past you to take the last spot in the parking lot

 

Cerberus,

>Neat name by the way.<

You are NOT being loud or bothersome in ANY of your posts that I've had the pleasure to read. ALL of your topics are , and the one about the cellphone morons is groovy as well.
I've witnessed folk like them that couldn't seem to grasp the intellect to sever the connection of the call to simply back into a dock space. I guess anymore these scenarios shall become more evident as the REAL DRIVERS like us venture forth away from the "professional" arena.

Not being able to back a combo or correctly detaching from a trailer is sad enough, but not able to couple a combo, well, they need not be in a combo until they can learn through whatever language is required how to functionally operate a combo.
Them not saying "thanks" or anything else speaks highly of their upbringing which when considering a lot of the "new" generation, well, I don't have enough bullets or time or lack of conscience.

Drunk truck drivers just need to be beaten back to sleep and their cdl's removed along with their keys and trucks. Let 'em sleep in the dirt.:smt075
I have yet to see someone exiting a Liquor store with a brown bag and entering a truck on the either side, however when or if I do, I'll drop a dime.
Drunk driving a 4-wheeler is one thing but not a 15 to 40 ton missile.

 

The cell phone thing gets to me, as well. Get a hands-free bluetooth unit!

The Pee Problem is the thing that embarrasses me to be a truck driver. Guys that pee on the fuel island, or wherever they park their truck. Then you have the guys that leave a nice gallon jug of it wherever they parked for the night, as if that was any better.

The Wal Mart DC in Opelika, AL has an inlet road that lots of trucks park on all the time. There are jugs of pee lined all up and down this road in the grass that truckers pitch out before they roll off.

What the heck is wrong with these people?

 

I think all industries have the same type of people working for them. In my industry it manifest it self in a similar ways... too lazy to wash thier dishes... constantly leave messes for other folks to clean up... calling in sick on a regular basis... or going on STD to go hunting... doing no more than they absolutly have to do... and the same folks complain about how the company is taking advantage of them.

It's the same type of loosers... they just happen to be truckers.

 

I just recalled an incident of an idiotic driver that I think was relevant enough to include in this thread (rant).

A couple years ago, I was at the Exxon t/s in Italy, TX on I-35E. While I was walking back out to my truck in the parking lot after being inside, I noticed this blue Freightliner Century and noticed that it's daytime running lamps were on, meaning that the parking break wasn't set. I looked into the cab and noticed that no one was in the driver's seat. Just then, the truck began to roll out of its parking spot and into the middle of the lot and was heading towards the fuel island! I ran up to the truck, opened the door (shocked that it was unlocked), jumped in the cab and pulled the brake valve. As I was climbing down, the driver of that truck came running up to me (McDonald's bag in hand) and yelled "What the **** are you doing?!?" When I told him that he didn't set his breaks, he acted as though he didn't believe me. Then another driver came up who had witnessed the whole thing and vouched for me. This driver never once said thanks or "Oh, ****, I can't believe I did that." Just hopped his fat butt up into the cab and drove off.

It's unbelievable the idiocies that we come across out here every day. I saved that SOB's job for him, and I didn't even get a thank you. I can understand how it might have looked to him, but once that other driver backed up my side of things, you'd think he would've given me my deserved appreciation. Some people's kids.

 

Why not????

 

The ones I hate are the men that use the fule island for a bathroom while fueling. Then when they see they you are a female and have been caught they give that stupid grin. That's the worst

 

LAst year, on I-40, headed west through New Mexico, we were routed off the Interstate to get around an accident with a fatality. Big trucks, bumper to bumper,when ahead of me I see, on the shoulder, this shiny semi and tlr., same company as me. The way the driver had pulled off the road, in a curve to the right, one could see all the way down the passenger side. And right there, in front of God and everybody was a big woman, squatting there, relieving herself. traffic was moving about 3 miles an hour...... Slow enuf for everyone to get a good view of her large, white arse. I was mortified. The air horns were blaring. And the yang on the c.b. was enuf for me to turn it off. I tried, as best I could, to scrunch down in the seat and get out of the traffic.

I told my dispatcher (cause I had the truck number) just so he could get a mental picture. I made him promise not to get her in trouble... Just wanted him to see that in his mind everytime she made it to the PA terminal.

d.