NoClueJoe66

I respect and understand DCR's opinion,everyone (including myself) did indeed start somewhere,but these "driving school drop-outs" are becoming the bane of the trucking industry! One difference is that I WANTED to be a driver like my Dad and Grand-Dad,was'nt a "last ditch effort" after failing at everything else. I do more and cover more ground in a day then most of these nood-nicks do in a week! And therefore cannot afford to be held up at every stop by someone who doesn't have the skill or desire to do a proper job. My Grand-Dad used to have an expression for this,"If you want to be a Lumberjack,you should be able to hold up your end of the log"! I am sure some of the big carriers have some decent drivers,problem is I just don't see them anywhere? Not everyone is cut out for life on the road,and that has never been more apparent to me then in the past few years,some of the things I see people do in a truck on almost a daily basis scares the S**T outta me! Some of what I see getting out of trucks isn't much better,what happened to pride in profession? Bathing? clean clothes? Deoderant? shoes? I manage to get cleaned up everyday,one way or another? Don't own flip-flops,sweatpants,or anything of the sort.

I may be a dinosaur,but I represent my company in a professional manner,respect my customers,and my equipment to the tune of 3.5 million miles safe driving! run clean,safe equipment,and do what I say I'm going to do,right wrong or in-different!............Rants over,back to your regularly scheduled programming!.............................Mark

I agree with you 100%, your not becoming a dinosaur you just have respect for yourself, others,and your job. I never have claimed to know everything about trucking and probably never will,but you have to be willing to learn the job. That's what a lot of the New drivers don't wanna do. My whole trucking career i've always watched others, asked advice and picked up on a lot. The whole backing up deal to me is set yourself up, look at everything around you. I'll be the first to admit i've screwed up a few times, but I learned from my mistakes and a lot of these new drivers don't care if they do. I agree with farmer and maint1, practice......it's really getting sad out here anymore

I'm alive and well out here in the great and very warm northwest.....1958fwd-the check is in the mail for the bill, 41chevy-I'm on the water,pepto bismol, and milk of magnesia pretty heavy since eating there...Green Dash-I got my trucking hard attitude by trying to keep pace with you......gearhead204-it's very warm out here stayed in ellensburg, wa lastnight got up to 106....Farmer52-I don't have my laptop with me so I'm just stuck with my phone lol....thanks for checking on me guys

To help offset costs we do have a small fee for parking. We don't have a fuel island but we do have showers for a small fee. F.W.D. trucks can park for free and drivers of F.W.D.'s can get free showers. We also have wireless internet if you can figure out the password (we'll give that to you for a small fee.....)

"If you build it they will come".....What about overnight parking for Detroit powered units?

Thanks to everybody on here for the birthday wishes, and I would like to apologize to everybody on here for my lack of participation on the site. I've been working a lot here lately and still look around on here,but i'm just usually tired to try and post replies. When I do think of a reply and bother to type it out, I just feel like everyone gonna think "this dude's on crack or something". Anyway my birthday went good, and I really appreciate all my friends here on BMT