So, what happened to this gal? (I can see her hiding under the kitchen table) We need more info, dear, why all the questions?
Please don't say you want to follow in the old mans footsteps,,,
Where have all the Old Timers gone?
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@201 Yep, you caught me alright! Evidently there’s no hiding on here (Where’s the emoticon hiding under a table, paranoid, when you need it?)
No, I have a lot of questions about everything.
This thread garnered far more responses than I anticipated, so trying to respond to everyone seems like an exercise in futility on a small phone with very unreliable reception.
No, sir, I don’t plan to follow in dad’s footstep. I have do have some other ideas…
All the talk of how the old timer’s have died off, the lack of camaraderie, the back and forth arguments of life being better/worse with the advancement of technology and more restrictions/the detriment of technology/less autonomy, the disappearance of things like good sit-down restaurants…
It’s all at once, sad, confusing, overwhelming, and hilarious.
I can’t figure out if things are better or worse, quite frankly.
Trying to define “Old Timer” in itself is tricky, too, given that some have been driving on tractors and such before garnering a CDL, while others have been driving for an impressive amount of years professionally.
Some, much like my late father, who did both, if you factor in growing up on a farm and then later driving professionally for an estimated 19 years. From pulling containers, to flatbeds to step-decks, driving for multiple companies, to owning his first truck, then upgrading to one after another, the bad move he made when he owned two and hired another driver who screwed him over and cost him dearly in repairs and tickets… Bouncing back and forth between small company driver to O/O, pulling countless over-sized loads, and hauling everything from a.c units for condos to the sandy beaches of Pensacola, to Kubota tractors, to Army trucks, to…well, you get the idea. He also harbored a special hatred for J.B. Hunt (guess it was the 55 MPH limit mentioned upthread?) He would rail about them endlessly. B!tching about the major companies paying .50 per mile (“I won’t drive for under a dollar, bleep-bleep, angry raised fist*) Other hatreds included the DOT, weigh stations, inspections, certain states, running empty, and any 4-wheeler that dared to cut him off. Oh, yeah. Can’t forget those REEFERS parked next to him late at night! A lot of stories of things like stopping early on in his driving career at the scene of a car accident, flipped over with two women on the ground, one pregnant who apparently died after he ripped everything out of the sleeper and tried to make them both as comfortable as possible while “help” arrived…later apologizing to my mother for ruining all of his bedding with their blood…
All the memories of riding with him that come flooding back.
Laughing over the “sad” disappearance of Lot Lizards Guess y’all have moved on to all the “sugars babies” looking to clean out the wallets/bank accounts of “Sugar Daddies” *grin*
Your own good advice regarding spotting O/Os and reporting trucks riding in tandem (had no idea they were locked down at 63, so I guess I was off by 2 MPH) I would report them if I had Bluetooth + headset but I’d rather not wreck my own vehicle trying to fiddle with my phone.
Maybe Siri can do that for me? Can I yell at my phone, “Betch, you better call *insert number* on license plate # such-and-such RIGHT now!”
The hatred of dispatchers by @Grumppy
Yikes! There goes my BIG “secret” plan of trying to become one. I’d be constantly fighting with any company I worked for and all the freight brokers and arguing withy bosses over the “ETA” because I will *always* be on the side of the truck driver, unless he’s a dangerous and a belligerent…umm…besterd?
Sounda like a no-win situation. I’d be hearing the words “Get out, your ### is FIRED!” on the first day!
Lots of questions to come, just not sure how/where to post them all…
And dang-it, I’m done trying to correct any and all typos *throws phone*Last edited: May 19, 2022
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