Your favorite Tall Tales and Lunch Counter stories.

You're a better man than I, I will go sit as far from the counter as possible from the drivers to avoid overloading my BS meter.

That's impressive, bet he could have got on the CB and used teamwork to brake if his airhorn hadn't filled his tanks.

 

Talked with a driver that told me he had a 600 Cat in his truck. I asked about the transmission. He told me it was a 9 speed.

Had a guy tell me he was a navy seal. I asked him how long he was in the military. He said, “3 years.”

In 2001, Jack would tell stories of fighting in WWII. He fought in Korea. He fought in Vietnamese Nam. He retired from the secret service and he was a retired sheriffs deputy. I asked him his age.
“61”
Well, Jack, if you fought in WWII, you couldn’t have been more than 3-4 years old.
“I was a child spy.”
Captain Baby America. Go lie to someone else.

 

Hearing from old boys who certainly shoulda known better........

That having any color sheets on your bunk except WHITE, was a DOT violation.

And that even with a sleeping bag, you gotta have white sheets.

I asked every one of them to show me where that rule was in the book. None of them could......

 

In paper log page era I heard a couple drivers claim they could protect themself from a logbook inspection by sealing their logbook into an envelope that was stamped & addressed.

The other classic was/is you can call the US Marshals to arrest a DOT or local cop if they infringe your rights.

Another humorous claim is you can claim your CMV is your home and that increases the requirements a cop needs to search your truck or give you more rights to carry firearms in the truck.

 

Had one guy tell me about a top secret load where they flew him and his rig to Germany and back.

 

Another variant of that with paper logs was the part about drawing lines when crossing a state border. According to the Truckstop attorneys that line prevented a DOT cop from any enforcement action that did not happen in their state. There are several variants of that line myth!

 

How about the top secret government load, and when they got there and opened the doors, there was an envelope taped to the middle of the floor.

 

I ran into a guy at the Ontario TA many years ago that said he was hauling nuclear bombs. I came close to losing my mouth full of coke that day!

 

Had a driver tell me he ran with a defanged cobra he kept under the driver's seat I asked him if he snuggled with a shark to fall asleep?

 

How about the story where the driver is grossing 150k on 5 axles, crosses a scale and the scale sinks into the ground.