Knights of the highway

I'm in Pa. - the Poconos - on Rt. 80 and Rt. 33 split, and a guy is broke down and jacking rear tire up on
driver side of a car, not a foot from 80 mph traffic. I go to end of guardrails in front of him, about 2,000 ft.
ahead, where I can actually get the business end more than halfway off the side of road. Walk back to him
with 2 flares and safety vest, and he's nearly done. Got him all buttoned up and ready to roll.
Then walked the 2,000 ft. safely back to my truck, and as a "No good deed goes unpunished" moment - someone had stopped and stolen the fire extinguisher off the back rack. Thanks!

It's not the Truckers, its the decline of a civilization. The "Human Animal" in it's base form is opportunistic.

 

I got the flu a few times per year when OTR, not once every couple of years. Glad payphones are like Bigfoot.

 

This incident happened last year...

Was in a motel, second floor, browsing TTR. Heard a crash on the interstate, looked out the window and saw a pickup come through the bushes, across the service road, catch air, come over the fence and land upside down on the top of another truck. I throw my boots on and run outside. There's 10 people standing around the truck filming. The girl driving the truck, still has the engine going and the truck catches fire. Everyone is filming. I grab a fire extinguisher and out the fire out. Engine is still running, fire flares back up. I am yelling to the guys in the crowd to kill the engine. Everyone is filming. KILL THE ENGINE!!! I'm hitting the fire and everyone is filming. Finally, another guys runs up, opens the door and tries to get the girl out of her seatbelt. He can't do it. The seatbelt won't release. KILL THE ENGINE!!!!! Everyone is filming. Finally numbskull kills the engine. Great!

We get the girl out and I sit her on a bench. It took her quite some time to realize what happened. "Do you know where you are? Do you feel any pain?" Her arms got bruised when that airbag blew off, but for the most part, she was okay. Tears came to her eyes and she said, "I wrecked my dad's truck."

And everyone was filming.

In the words of the infamous Hugh Roland, "Did it make you want to shove a camera up someone arse?"
I would love to see one of you social media worshipping sidewalk sissies film yourselves in a car being burned alive. I would give you a thumbs up.