It's great to have physics on your side.

What brought you to trucking?

I sometimes think I'd like it for a while to be on the open road and see the country a bit but I wouldn't want to get complacent.

Do you find you have a stigma attached to you due to your career? I know a lot of people assume truckers are creeps and extremely unintelligent, which is very unfair. I've met a share who are extremely smart.

I guess the thing is, almost anyone can become a truck driver. There's no filtering process so you get a ton of different people. The guys that stick with it for their entire lives probably are more prone to being anti-social and creepy.

I met a lot of cool people at the terminals though and I could usually get a poker game going.

Do you enjoy the monster truck rallies, with their car-crushing and whatnot?

Would they fire you for a DWI?

I don't have any interest in monster truck rallies haha. When I was a kid we had them every summer and the trucks would turn into dinosaurs and shoot fire. Those were pretty cool!

I believe they don't care if you drink and drive. I'm not 100% sure. At the monster truck rallies I mean... wait, what? Yes.

Well, he did get arrested, went to jail and presumably lost his job, so I'm not sure if you'd call him the winner.

Are you ******ed? You thought you could play chicken w/ a truck driver?

I used to manage a delivery company in NJ before I moved to Florida. We dealt mostly w/ box trucks and vans.

I'm not 100% sure on this, but I think if you have a CDL and get a DWI, you lose your CDL and can never get it back.


Just like in real life, there is a huge spectrum in the intelligence of truck drivers. I've worked with some truck drivers that have no f'ing common sense whatsoever.

One time, I had this driver that never strapped down a pallet jack and he had it under a pallet of newspapers. He was driving a box truck that was automatic and he floored it while coming back from Staten Island. The whole thing shot out to the back of the truck and it was only luck that it didn't fall out. But the roll up door was completely busted. He never knew what happened and didn't stop. It wasn't until he got back to the warehouse that he saw that 1/2 the pallet was hanging out/wedged over the door. He basically drove 40 miles like this.

If any of you guys are ever mechanics and are wondering what to do, become a truck mechanic. Holy crap, talk about ripping people off. Oil changes are like $150, fixing a rollup door can run $500+, ect.

It was ******ed and I was a lot younger. But I also didn't expect to get rammed.

Here's another truck driving story. It happened about 4 or 5 years ago.

One of my drivers was delivery a load of newspapars to a Post Office in NJ. He was on Rt. 31 at about 5:30 in the morning w/ a box truck. He was on this strech of Rt. 31 that was only 1 lane. The speed limit is about 40-45 mph near Hackettstown and Hampton.

So he's driving and there is this guy in a car behind him, flashing his lights, pissed off he's going so slow ect. But it was 1 lane so there wasn't much my driver could do. He said he was doing the speed limit and he's normally a fast driver so I believe him. About a mile down the road, the road becomes 2 lanes.

Anyway, he's coming up to a tiny hill in the road and he can see a truck approaching. The highway was 2 solid yellow lines. As both trucks are passing, the guy behind him just pulls to the left and tries to pass. He didn't see any traffic coming because of the small hill and WHAM, the truck in the other lane hits him head on. The driver in the other truck said he saw the guy's face frozen in fear and that was why he didn't go back into the correct lane quick enough.

If the guy in the car had waited 2 minutes, he would have been able to pass the truck when the road became 2 lanes. Instead he got killed. As far as I know, the other truck driver had some whiplash but that was it.

LOL, understandable.

Best roadkill?

Did you hate me when i was a kid trying to get you to honk your horn, or did the motion turn you on?

When I'm in my pathfinder and I turn my lights off/on to let you know you have room to move over, you consider me 'one of you' right?













Do you miss The Bandit?

Do you just point and laugh at the sad suckers who have to use the emergency run off lanes on mountains?

^^^^ Oooh, would like to hear about experiences with / opinions of said lanes.

I would also like to know if you appreciate us drivers that flash our lights to let you know you are good to move into the left lane?

Why the **** do you guys/some truckers think it's funny to start a traffic jam on our 2 lane highways here in PA pacing each other in both lanes? This may have been asked already don't remember.

you have to be careful b/c is the trucker is a gansta he might have to kill you for doing this

LOL

Guess what beer I drive.

OK I will no longer let truckers know when they can come into the right lane.

Really I probably will just out of habit just like flashing the slow drivers in the left lane.

Buttwhiper,,,I mean Budweiser?

When you drive for a major company you're always swapping trailers. It's so important you check the break pads before you leave because you might find yourself without trailer breaks. When you're going downhill you're trying to alternate between using your engine break, trailer breaks and regular breaks to avoid smoking them. If you lose one there a good chance you overheat the other two. It would just be really scary to have to use one of those ramps I think.

You gotta watch Smokey and the Bandit. I think it won a ton of awards.

i wanna know more about the lot lizards.

there's a truck stop maybe 1/3rd of the way between my hometown and the college i went to. now we play softball once a week there, and we always stop to get beer on the way (boring drive, nothing else to do right?) and always did in college too.

there were always 1 or 2 there, and i can't wait to tell a buddy or two that you guys call 'em lot lizards, that's fitting and hilarious.

couple weeks ago we already had beer so we didn't stop, but i'm looking out the window and a guy and a lizard hop out of a cab, and both light cigarettes and quickly go their separate ways.

laughed the entire ride about it.

Well, they can be persistent. The first time one came up to my truck she stood on the steps looking in my window. I'd never turned down a hooker before so I was trying to be polite but she wouldn't leave. I finally just said, "No thanks!" and went back into my sleeper berth. Any time after that I would just say, "NO!" like I was talking to a bad dog and they would go to the next truck.

I didn't like parking in truck stops when I could avoid it. I'd go park at Hotels and get free WiFi.

BAAH-HAHAHAHAHAAA!!

Did you ever do anything incredibly good or bad to a stranger?