pissin off senior truckers

Friends are nice to have when trouble comes, & trouble does come sooner or later, & you will probably be setting there getting passed up, because you passed them up.

So just pass up the broken down truck of your fellow workers, them enjoy the fruit that will come later.

You seem to be just like one of the 5 I spoke of.

 

Good point OHB, so many sayings, "Karma", "what goes around, comes around", "all good things, come back to you", someone made those up for a reason.

 

Hi Lowa, nice try , but you aren't gonna tick me off. We've been around the block so many times, I don't think there's anything you can say to upset us. You've got issues, and I pray you don't take that attitude on the road with you. Remember, we were trucking when you were playing with rattles, and we've seen a lot of people come and go in this industry, and quite frankly, I don't know if you are going to make it. It's not your fault, it's just the progression of things that led up to attitudes like yours. It's natural for one generation to laugh at the previous generation, but at some point, you realize, it's the pioneers really built this country, in all professions. Have a decent day. Oh, BTW, that seal on an empty trailer, is as old as the hills!

 

No need for name calling in here. Lets all just be friends.

 

[QUOTE="semi" retired;4038919]Hi Lowa, nice try , but you aren't gonna tick me off. We've been around the block so many times, I don't think there's anything you can say to upset us. You've got issues, and I pray you don't take that attitude on the road with you. Remember, we were trucking when you were playing with rattles, and we've seen a lot of people come and go in this industry, and quite frankly, I don't know if you are going to make it. It's not your fault, it's just the progression of things that led up to attitudes like yours. It's natural for one generation to laugh at the previous generation, but at some point, you realize, it's the pioneers really built this country, in all professions. Have a decent day. Oh, BTW, that seal on an empty trailer, is as old as the hills![/QUOTE]

i don't get what attitude your referring too, but I made it this far and will continue to make it, just because your definition of a friend is different than mine doesn't make either definition wrong. Most I meet out here are just acquaintances probably won't meet or see them again and most times I don't. Friends are people that one would hang out with, go drinking, fishing, camping, etc...

Yes i I would agree when I got into this awhile back things were allot different but over the years the new generation of not starting at the bottom and go right to the top has put allot of these issues forth.
along with those who don't use common sense.

if anyone would be upset I would think it would be the old timers, as they didn't hold the ground, and now instead of just holding the ground it's much easier for them to just leave the industry, instead of trying to stick it out and trying to make it work.

with new technology, most of these newer drivers don't see the need to stop, as they figure well you have a cell phone and can call for help, taxi, etc... Etc... It's the new generation that is really messing it up for everyone.

All lol I can do is hold onto some of the old ways I was taught, and to try to keep that spirit alive, even though it is quickly fading over the years.

 

I replied to the post you made to me. Not to the other ones following it.

Oh, read "semi" retired' post again, & let it sink in, he did a very good job writing it out.

 

[QUOTE="semi" retired;4038919]Hi Lowa, nice try , but you aren't gonna tick me off. We've been around the block so many times, I don't think there's anything you can say to upset us. You've got issues, and I pray you don't take that attitude on the road with you. Remember, we were trucking when you were playing with rattles, and we've seen a lot of people come and go in this industry, and quite frankly, I don't know if you are going to make it. It's not your fault, it's just the progression of things that led up to attitudes like yours. It's natural for one generation to laugh at the previous generation, but at some point, you realize, it's the pioneers really built this country, in all professions. Have a decent day. Oh, BTW, that seal on an empty trailer, is as old as the hills![/QUOTE]

I don't really care about speaking about things I've done for others, but I will mention this one.

One night I heard a man on his CB saying he had ran out of fuel. I asked him where he was & it so happen I was not far from him but on the other side of the highway.

When I got to him I pulled over & it just happened that I had a 5 gallon can under my sleeper, & a water hose. We siphoned 10 gallons of fuel out of my truck them poured it into his fuel tanks so he could make it to El Paso. While we did this there was not a truck nor a car that came by we were all alone out there. He tried with all his might to give me two $20.00 dollar bills for stopping & helping him. Wow, two twenties was a lot of money back them but I could not take his money!

But I refused to take it telling him if you stop & help someone else you will be paying me back & that is all I ask out of you. Wow, its sure different in this day & time.

 

well ya now a days you do that he jumps out hits ya with a crowbar and takes all you fuel and leaves you face down in the ditch

 

[QUOTE="semi" retired;4030978]Wow, I can't believe it, this really hits home for me too.Back in the late '90's, I got a union job hauling bread, and was the "new guy". Several runs were drop and hook, some were peddle runs to self storage units, and the little trucks would pick up the bread there and take it to the stores. I always brought my own lunch, never took a break, and always got back an hour faster than the old timers. The bosses loved me, and asked me how I did it, and I told them. One day, an old timer came up to me and said, "I see you are getting back earlier than the rest of us on such and such run, are you taking your breaks?" I thought he was kidding, but he looked me right in the eye, he wasn't kidding. He said, "we fought hard for those breaks in the strike of '96(or whatever), YOU TAKE THOSE BREAKS!" He went on to say, "I saw you talking to the boss, what was that about"? I said, nothing, just wanted to shoot the breeze. He said, "You don't talk to the boss. You tell the union steward your problem, he talks to the boss". I couldn't believe it, but he was serious.
Another time, our trucks were governed at 63 mph, one night on the ILL tollway, I came up fast on one of our trucks, almost ran into the back of him, he must have been going 45 mph. I tried talking to him on the CB, I thought something was wrong, he never answered me.
Moral of story, ttc, these guys are professional milkers, and I kept doing my job faster than these schmo's and the bosses loved me, but the other drivers never talked to me again, and it was uncomfortable, and I eventually quit, because I didn't like the pressure, and that was a shame, because it was the best trucking job I ever had. Bottom line, all those old timers got laid off and the company went with outside carriers, so who was the idiot there?[/QUOTE]
The fact that you quit the best trucking job you ever had speaks volumes and fills in the blanks.