Radio Rambos

when someone annoyed me, i'd tell them i was in the JB Hunt, Swift, Werner, Schneider, Wilson, Knight, or any other truck and was gonna kick thier arse so hard, they would see next week, in like 1.2 nano seconds...

i feel sorry now, for all those drivers, that got beat up, shot, or run off the road......


j/k

 

i have known a driver or 2, at former employers, to have a second cb radio (portable) in the sleeper, so all you'd see was the one hanging from the overhead console, so you'd never know it was him.

and no, it was never me that had done that..!!

 

I listened to some of the stupidest fights on the radios that you can imagine. Guys would literally start screaming at each other, it sounded like their blood pressure was actually going through the roof. I could never wrap my head around arguing with some unseen person, you knew would never tell you where he was at, it just didn't make sense to me.
I did watch one figure out where one was at, at the petro truckstop in Amarillo, and left him layin in the parking lot when he drove off. It may or my not have cured him from running his mouth. lol

 

Many years ago,I was trucking westbound across northern Idaho. Was late at night,and the Idaho scales pulled me in for a quick paper check. This was before I-90 was built across there,and the old scale was about halfway across the state,it's just a maintenance shed area there now. Eastbound scale was still at Post Falls,then. Anyhow,a Couple of DOT guys are in there,nice guys,and they had a CB base station. As I was leaving,they asked me if I wanted to stick around and see the fight. What fight,I asked? The cops had a good base,and they could hear 2 truckin' CB rambos,threatening to kick each others a##es,heading west towards the scale. Like most CB fights back then,one doesn't want to stop,and the other is glad of it.
Anyway the cops are watching the trucks very carefully as they enter the scales,trying to figure out who the Rambos are. Then they are going to pull them over,make them come in the scalehouse,and see what happens. I chuckled and left,I guess even the DOT cops get bored,and try to have some fun. Never did hear anymore squawking on the radio that night

 

I ain't much of a scrapper it's not worth it......some hot headed nit wit hit my Pete out of anger he #### sure better want trouble and a by God lot of it.


There is absolutely no call or reason for that kind of behavior. Just cause a man wants peace doesn't mean he isn't capable of great violence.

 

Give em a whole new religion.

 

I would pay a weeks load of miles to actually pull aside and see these Rambos throw down. To be honest it would probably be cheeto coated flab vs. fries covered flip flops. But still. Probably be fun to see.