What does experienced driver mean?!

Discussion in 'Experienced Truckers' Advice' started by Cowboy967, Mar 9, 2015.

  1. Tonythetruckerdude

    Tonythetruckerdude Crusty Deer Slayer

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    You really never get to the point of knowing it all , you know that , but , if you can adopt this outlook and keep it ......No matter where I go , no matter how many miles I drive , no matter how many "close calls" I encounter , bad weather , crazy drivers , heavy traffic , etc.....I'm still a rookie , even if you make it to retirement like a couple of us old hands....your still a rookie , just an old one......
     
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  3. Tonythetruckerdude

    Tonythetruckerdude Crusty Deer Slayer

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    When I went to work for GSF ( 1978 ) you had to have a verifiable 5 years experience , and 1 year of that had to be pulling a reefer.....times sure have changed...
     
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  4. Tonythetruckerdude

    Tonythetruckerdude Crusty Deer Slayer

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    to continue..after the 30th year I looked back at the 29th....never ending cycle......if a driver doesn't take every single solitary safe mile as a total learning experience , AND apply that experience the the very next mile....eventually he'll be in trouble.
     
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  5. okiedokie

    okiedokie Road Train Member

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    I forgot more than I knew so yeah what Tony said.:biggrin_25517:
     
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  6. Cranky Yankee

    Cranky Yankee Cranky old ######

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    it is just like growing up we never thought our fathers were so smart until we got older
    and understood what they said
    i am a lot dumber then when i was 25
     
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  7. joseph1135

    joseph1135 Papa Murphy

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    I don't want to know everything. I just wish after all this time I knew something.
     
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  8. Lepton1

    Lepton1 Road Train Member

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    Knowin' #### ain't all it's cracked up to be.... :D
     
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  9. icsheeple

    icsheeple Trailing the Herd

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    Ive always wondered about that. Seems silly to write a ticket for a blown additional light outside of the minimum required set.
     
  10. KW Cajun

    KW Cajun Road Train Member

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    Yeah,, but you always use it & you're always tauntin' all of us less'ers with it. "lessOrs in Joseph's case) ;)
     
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