saw a sad sad thing today.

i would go that extra mile if i can help at least you try and dont just go away.

 

Cool, again, good job, however I must say, in all the tools I usually took with me, I can honestly say, a battery load tester wasn't one of them!

 

I'm not convinced that it's as much that we don't care as it is the crazy new time sensitive world and electronic tattle tails that most folks are having to deal with these days. There have been times I'd have loved to have stopped and helped someone but the darned schedule was darned near too tight to make it with everything maxed. I had a choice; be a good guy or get dinged with a late on a critical customer. I mean you're right in that there are a lot of drivers that don't care and in such a big and diverse industry there are some that wouldn't pee on you if you were on fire and might even "help" you by putting you out with some gasoline. That's just in any large demographic. I think most of us would help if we wouldn't be penalized for it. I blame the industry a lot more than I do the drivers. But that's just my opinion.

 

A young black couple with a baby approached me at the gas station where I live. It was late at night. It is a very white town.

The vw bug they were in had overheated, and had a check engine light on ( no temp gauge). The young guy asked me to look at it. He was in the air force and travelling from Ohio to a new post.

Couldn't do much for the vehicle. I told him to follow me 2 miles to the house. Fed them, housed them, trailered car to mechanic, then had the Joplin dealer retrieve vehicle and off they went.

Their parents sent a gift basket a month later. Note said " Thanks for helping our kids. Its good to know there are still people like you out there."

It felt normal and good to help someone. Good on you skateboardman.

 

Its a shame out of the probably 100 drivers that heard him ask for help, wouldnt.

I for one would have no problem doin the same as you did (OP) because one day , I too may be in a situation that help is needed. I believe what goes around comes around .

Seems to me this industry is not what it used to be years ago when a driver would help out another driver in need.(or anyone in need for that matter)

30 years ago when my grandfather drove truck , if you seen someone on the side of the road you stoped . Its not becasue you wer obligated in any way . Its because it was the right thing to do !!!!

 

I am not offended. I just personally do not see the need to use such words. Now, you will come back and say all truck drivers do.

Hardly. I hear them, and if they are using it when talking to me, I turn and walk away. It seems to me to be childish to use it, but that opinion will be taken hard by most.

I worked in the professional world for many years. It is not needed, attractive or impressive.

Additional thought.

Many on here want to be treated like professionals. Would it not be a good idea to start acting, talking, and writing like one?

Public image of the truck drivers need to be changed.

 

That's true, I'm glad TTR bleeps those words, and I wish other sites would do that too. Nowadays I hear a lot of young people use the "F" word, like it's common vernacular, and I'm immediately turned off by that. Maybe it's because my old man swore like a sailor( do sailors really swear that much?) and it always bothered me, and I swore(oops) I'd never do that.