Old timer question. Before cell phones and load boards

Remember sometimes when there's a lot of truck traffic at night and someone would get on the CB and say "There's a naked woman driving a car with her dome light on; she's in the hammer lane" , then give a mile marker that's a couple of miles behind the group of trucks. They would all get in the right lane and slow down. Then every now and then yell, "I just saw her, she's hot, she'll be up there beside you in a minute."

The positive on all this goofy stuff from those days is, it kept everyone awake and entertained and time moved fast. Before you know it the sun is coming up.

 

I don't get it? Not kidding either.

 

Well in simple terms. Its reference to. Adam and Steve not Adam and eve.

 

So it's a sign your a @%#$ if you put the dome light on?

 

More a long the lines if you turn it on and off. Or had a red dome light doing the same.

This was years ago. Not sure now, with cell phones, bathroom stalls and Craigslist.

That was when you didn't have a fast truck and you were listen to this. As the car was 5miles in front of u.

 

That's what it meant. If you sat in a rest area or ramp with the dome light on, there would be guys knocking on your door. Best if you need a light on was to get in the sleeper compartment with the curtain closed and use that light.

 

God! I think we derailed. This. "Going down memory lane" post.

 

Running across Mississippi the chicken coops would measure how much fuel was in your tanks on the way in and way out with a dip stick. You had to prove you bought fuel in the state or you paid a tax.

Running convoys in the middle of the night at over 80 mph in a cabover, reading the fine print on the trailer in front of you to stay in the draft.

 

What's all this callin in stuff about....ya got mt....went to the TS.... Called home Collect....said u were xxxx from 76 Ontario (or wherever)& went to bkfst.....disp had all the TS callback #s...when they had ya set up...theyd call fuel desk....youd get paged & if u didn't answer page....fuel desk took p/u info&you checked when ya woke up....lol

 

there were good times too.. Truckstops would get into fuel price wars, and offer free steak dinners to drivers for fueling there and other would offer free truck wash's with girls in bikini's...

Arizona use to make drivers bring their logbook in and timestamp them at POE..

We were very lucky to reload the same day, for open-deck freight..
If we turned down a load and went to bottom of list, we then looked for a trip-lease..
When I signed on to IT, we had to paint our truck company colors...
Going cross country, limited to 73280# gross, under 55ft overall length, then Carter has us run 55mph nationwide after the so-called fuel shortage...

First truck I drove was a 56 KW conv with a 4/3 tranny, cutback 220HP, could fly up the hills at 10MPH if lightly loaded... Didn't need a speedometer, engine cover started flapping at 45mph, fenders flapping at 50mph, and whole truck started shaking above 55mph... Freeways were not finished either... Every town in Nevada, we had to exit and drive thru those towns...

No cellphones, computers, GPS... Used maps and payphones, CB's were great back then...