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Hmm hadn’t thought about the rental angle. I don’t think the boy was real smart though. A big rig hammering the jake brake at your 5 o’clock aughta get ya movin’.

He was plated and marked Texas front to rear. I’d not judge Texans by this joker.

How about an air starter- - - - -and I don't mean a hum job from a lot lizard!
Jerry

Linda Ronstadt can't drive a truck, but she can sure sing about it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJHcD0kHTGk

Back when i learned to drive them there were no log books.

Then came paper log books,learned how to play the paper.

Now days with the gps logger in them,if they go to fast it logs on to the company and they will dog you.

To many times and you don't work there anymore.

The first truck i tandem drove had an 18 speed set up.

I liked it well enough but the pay would have to be large to get me to it these days.

Nothing quite like being half asleep and having someone hit
an air starter beside you.

Never ran anything with one of those, always wondered what they
offered. Judging by the relatively few used, not much.

Back when, those truckers would clime out of that cab looking like men. Leather boots, long pants, vest, hat. Now they wear shorts, tank tops, sandals, I'm just showing my age.

Back in the day a trucker took pride in his rig and the way he drove it. Unfortunately that's not always the case these days.

I think that why we have so many problems with 4 wheelers blocking the left lane is a lack of education. I'm not sure if they even teach that philosophy in drivers ed anymore. The other problem is that there are so many foreigners on the road. They don't even have interstate highways were they came from. They should put up more prominent signage other than the old "Slower Traffic Keep Right" signs. They should also put up signs written in Spanish. I travel on the interstate every morning and there's always some jacknut blocking the left lane. When you finally get past them, it's either a young person or a Hispanic and 80% of the time they're paying more attention to their phone than they are the highway. The person is usually clueless to the fact that they are causing a traffic jam.

As far as truck blocking the left lane, I think that most guys do a fine job, but they can only do what the truck will allow them, especially on an uphill grade. These guys are just trying to git-r-done. The ELD's have screwed everything up and they need to go when they can. If they're on a long grade and another truck is going 3 miles an hour slower, their attitude is screw it, he needs to past this guy because he's got to get his job done. If he has to inconvenience other motorists, so be it.

Spent a few years hauling for McCrory Stores.
2 to 10 stops on a truck, crawl in, tailgate every box
of merchandise. Very tight schedule, often stops 80 to 100 miles
apart would be 90 minutes to two hours apart, on back roads.
That ment you had to show up at 8, get started, unload 50 to 100
packages, paperwork, seal up, drive 90 miles, and arrive 120 minutes
from first arrival. Other stops would have you in there for a half hour
or more,

Some weeks in Wisconsin/U.P., others were Kansas, or
New Orleans/Houston.

When this mountain born, Yankee had to hump that crap
out of a trailer in La, in August, I wore shorts (gasp) sneaker, headband,
shirt came off the instant I was in the trailer.

I couldn’t drive day after day. That’s got to be hard!!

This is so true.now.Many truck drivers of today are really car drivers in a truck and rules of the road mean squat to them. Just my take on today. Cheers NC