Student needs to speak with Outlaw Truckers for a paper

Maybe you should be inquiring at Federal correctional facilities .

 

What did the fish overdose on ?

 

Better thing to write about is the injustice and corruption I the industry to day

 

Kendra, very few truckers ever pulled drugs, guns, stolen cars, or anything like that. Even among the 'outlaws'. That stuff was done by smugglers, and you won't find any of those here. Smugglers are rarely properly licensed, and don't typically run the 'big roads'. Generally, they don't even run Big Rigs. Most smuggling is done using aircraft, cargo vans, or good sized pickup trucks.

"Outlaw Truckers", and the culture around them, is more about getting the job done without government over-regulation. The greatest cause behind outlaw trucking is the reciever's desire to have thier freight yesterday, and the driver can't pick it up until tomorrow. We accept the job of delivering the freight, and run until it's done.

I had my "outlaw" days as a young driver, and they were probably the most fun I've ever had while upright with my clothes on! One company I was with loved the fact I could do the "Chicago turnaround" as we called it. I ran out of Zelienople, PA (down by Pittsburgh, PA) straight up to Chicago and back. Back then, it was a ten hour drive one-way. I'd run up, drop my load, grab a backhaul if available, and run straight back. Do that two or three times in a row, and take the rest of the week off. Company paid me a fair amount of "extra" for doing it, cause it made us look real good to the contracted shipper. No illegal drugs used, just alot of caffeine and ephedrine to keep my eyes open.

Nowadays, I don't run that hard anymore. Heck, I don't run period since I'm currently retired from trucking and in college like yourself. But I got plenty of stories from my outlaw days, and some pretty good ones from later in my career, when I had quite driving like an "outlaw", but never lost the attitude...

 

I would find it much more interesting if someone would do a big expose on outlaw brokers or outlaw trucking companies. You know, the ones that never pay, slow pay, bad equipment etc.

 

Heck! now if you only run 4000 miles per week you are thought of as a outlaw! Sucks. When I show that it can be done legal, they roll their eyes.

 

That sums it up in a nutshell! No wonder none of them were fat. They might eat a bag of chips in three days! That speck of dirt on their bumper would bother the crap out of you. After driving a 1000 miles straight they were outside all night buffing their chrome. Who needs sleep? The day of drugs in the workplace are history. All the rest of it was because of the drugs.

 

The closest you will come to an outlaw trucker today is a cow hauler.

 

O.K. I won't ask how close you'd really want to get to a bull hauler .
A lot of RV haulers are Outlaws but I wouldn't call them truckers.