The Old days are dying and the New drivers only smell like they have.

iif you think it is just us newer drivers you are living in the dark brother.
i've only been out here a year and am nothing like what you portray us to be.

 

Pat don´t take it so hard/personally..mule is justa thick skinned bone headed one mean SOB... just like the rest of us...once you get to know us and listen to what we got to say you´ll be just fine.
Now have you ever met a nice steelworker/machinist on duty ?

Do like that song too...haven´t been into C&W that much but guess the more I listen to them words the more I grow into it...

 

lol i hear ya i just get tired of hearing the same line of BS ya know. glad i found this site before i started in this or i might just be guilty of some of those things that get pinned on us

 

It ain´t BS until you brush it off as such...

 

.....It is only by studying the past, may we learn to avoid the mistakes made in it... Keep it comin guys, I may be new to trucking, but Im not all that wet behind the ears. As a matter of a fact...I Happen to agree with General direction of this thread.

 

LMAO...You showed me so much love there Mick...It touched me and made a tear run down my.....leg.

 

:smt021 I'm not hammering ALL newbies....There are a bunch of great new hands out there.The problem is that the scrotes way out number them now days.If you reread the original post and haven't seen that exact scenario played out in a truck stop in the last week or so you have either lucked out or paid at the fuel island and rolled on without going inside .

 

It would seem that what we are seeing in the truckstops is just a reflection of what is happening to our whole country. I work around alot of guys ten to fifteen years younger than me. I would say at least 80% of them have zero pride in the work they do, and almost no thought about the consequences of their actions. It scares the hell out of me to think what our country is gonna be like in twenty years.

 

I'm a 100% in agreement with you.There's so few "CRAFTSMEN" of any trade left now that it IS truly scary.It's going to come down to where about the only thing you can get anybody to do is make you a frozen burger in the microwave and charge you for a grilled steak.

 

I wouldnt worry about it. I have a sneaky feeling that one day we will face some serious crisis on a nationwide scale. And all the slackers are gonna starve to death(probably waiting in an empty supermarket or McDonalds). The Katrina disaster leads me to believe that most of those fools will have no clue how to survive in a world where there is no one to make decisions for them or hand them their next meal. It appears to me that the Trucking industry is one of those few remaining bastions of folks that like self reliance and personal responsibility. But after sayin that, this post is an indicator that the "barbarians" are at the gates.