How much better was it back in the day

Yes back in the 80s the trucking field was great. At any time of the day you needed help a fellow drivers was willing to help. If you were broken down on the highway someone would pull over to see if he could help. If you needed directions or had a question all you needed to do was ask over the CB radio and you would so many drivers willing to help you. Yes you would have to pay out of your pockets for lumpers and tolls. And yes I had 2 log books.

 

your exactly right. i do remember back then, drivers helping each other. but the way things have been for the last 20 or so years, i forgot all about the way it was. for over 20 years, the attitudes and wave of foreign drivers, i lost the vision of the old days. some dont want to hear the word foreign, but sorry, look around.

i wonder why foreign drivers dont drive trucks in their own country. im confused.

 

Some of them are some of the most arrogant d-bags I've came across. I'm totally fine with foreign people coming here to better themselves, but for the sake of God speak the Kings f'n english. That's all

 

Some of us still roll huge clouds. Side of my wagon is black front to back. You don't see that much anymore

 

Loose leafs and if ya see us a little wobbly around state lines it's bc were scratching down the miles. God forbid if drivers had to do that now. My oh my. Glad i got a tiny taste of what the old days were like

 

If I could go back to the 70's and drive 90's trucks, I would never leave that decade.

 

I’m thinking early 80’s and driving my 2000 Pete! Paradise!

 

Notice how no one wants to go back to those times with a current DEF-cattle-prod-and-tattletale truck...

 

First time one of them broke down there would be no one to fix it. Plug in what?