Just some of the stupid things I see

Yes, thanks for helping clarify that. If you have not been around the industry or not had anyone in your family on the road, those stories would be all that you would associate with all truckers. The bad always seems to stand out to people far more than the good.

 

I better wear my sunglasses (and my seatbelt) so he won't recognize me tomorrow!

 

Was just reading the "cleaver" thread & got to thinking that I hope your stories keep coming DB along with any other LEO. The flipside to what I mentioned above is that as a driver it allows me to see some of the stuff you guys do.

90% of the time when I have been pulled around back the officers have been very good. The buttheads can be counted on one hand & am sure there are a few had just dealt with someone like DB has talked about, though two of the officers still stand out very clearly & am sure they were born that way.

 

DB Where are you? catching the bad guys? I hope, there is plenty of job security for all of you and thousands more I think... I'm not one of them, I plan once I get my Gold card that I will be the same law abiding citizen my parents taught me to be.. Thanks For all you do, Tell us more of your stories. Thanks. TD.

 

I do sort of wonder how much more intensively things like mechanical inspections will take place at scales with the advent of EOBR's and the capability of those things to work with things like prepass and automate the scales far more than they are today. I do notice a few states have cameras ahead of the scales, but wonder if they're used to spot aggressive drivers passing others slowing down for the scale they all know is coming? I've seen this in prepass states where I'm loaded near the limit and expecting the red light, some rookie passes me (yes, they're on prepass too) less than 2 miles before the scale and they get yanked in and i get a green... hmmm...

 

I can say that when I was working the road, I very very rarely came across an out of the way driver. Most drivers were professional . Once and a while I would run up with a "sexual intellectual" , but they could usually be set straight. Overall I found that I had more problems with the operators of passenger vehicles than professional drivers.