You can always tell a truck driver.......

But you can’t tell him nothin’. OK, that’s a double negative and my old English teacher Miss Noble would roll over in her grave if she EVER heard someone use that in a sentence. Come to think of it you hear a lot of double negatives in today’s language. I don’t want none comes to mind and there are others. Have you ever noticed that a truck driver is the most knowledgeable person in the room when it comes to politics and women and how much better off the world would be if they were only listened to?
But what I want to stick my 3 cents worth in (inflation) is observing the attitudes and habits of today’s “professional drivers”.

Have you noticed that drivers are as much into the latest fads and fashions as are women? I kid you not. Example. Steel caps on boots, everyone had to have them. Dinner Plate size belt buckles, yes there are still a few around. Then came the straw 10 gallon hats with more feathers than a peacock. Next came the long pony tails, the ear studs were really cute and now the tattoo parlors can’t keep up with the demand for drivers in cut-offs to display their perceived machoism. And there are those with more money than brains and room temperature IQ’s who think a $400 over modulated CB with a gazillion watt amp and of course echo turned up so high no one can understand them is the way to go.

Have you ever wondered why truck drivers have a bad image? Well folks, we’ve done it to ourselves. There was a time when a lot of 4 wheelers carried CB’s to pick up on road conditions and hazards and could hold friendly conversations with truckers. Anymore you seldom see an antenna on any passenger car. If you’re one of the unfortunates who listens to CH 19 then you know why. Then there are the idiots with the teeth on the grill that delight in getting so close to the 4 wheeler in front of him you’d think he was drafting at Talladega. I make no apology at calling the trucking company that employs this dummy and reporting him. Who knows if it does any good or not but if it does result in one less idiot on the road the better. So I’m a fink, think what you want, but I’ve driven over 3 million miles with no chargables and I’m content to keep it that way. Yes I’ve been awarded a couple of speeding tickets, but if anyone has to drive through Ohio you have one or two yourself.

Enjoy the day

Geezer

Category Posted: General