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Hey GB Truckers !!!!
mag00
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QUIT FEEDING THE PIGEONS
Cut the food and goods to these major cesspools that do nothing about these out of control pukes and watch how the leaders get on board with the good people.
Cut the food and goods to these major cesspools that do nothing about these out of control pukes and watch how the leaders get on board with the good people.
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But most of all, all those people who wants trucks heavily regulated and stuck in the right lane driving 55 with electronic monitoring, I want to hurt those people! I want to see the gas stations empty, grocery stores empty and all these truck haters fighting to survive.
After that, there is a hundred reasons to strike but sadly just like everything else, the only ones with the balls to do anything are on the wrong side of the fence. [:(!]
But, my BIL owns trucks and I worked on them for a stretch. My Long distance GF is a trucker in Canada.
So, you can see, I may be abrasive at times, and supportive at times.
As recent as two days ago another run in with * truck driver from a big box building material store.
For me, I would have no trouble encouraging the left to attack truckers. And that might be what it takes to galvanize the truckers. When the Ceeval War was going, Scorched Earth Philosophy won the day.
The battle really isn't against antifa and the likes, it is about big government choking the life out of free enterprise. They are enabling the blood sucking leeches to multiply and then empowering them by not upholding the law.
All the little factions that squawk against the machine are easily silenced. Divide and conquer.
So kimi has his beef, you have your beef, I have my beef, but the scope of any revolt is too narrow, and the left and big government can easily demonize the smaller groups.
Starve em out, they will have to listen.
There was a GB member last week askin about getting into trucking and this going going to sound harsh as hell but I'm going to let it rip anyhow.
If you are having a midlife crisis and want to do somethin different, stay away from truckig. If you are at a crossroads and trucking seems like the only way out, don't do it. Trucking is not supposed to be a dumping ground for misplaced workers or those seeking tomlive like a paid tourist. These people are one of the biggest problems we have.
Why has trucking gone to hell in the last decade or so? Because these big companies put ontraining wheels and have been puttin absolute idiots on the roads. The good guys are quitting, the real truckers, the guys who can run a truck in any condition, any scenario and get the job done are quitting. They are wuitting because of givernemnt regulations cutting us down all the while restrictions are relaxed for these big companies to put people who cannot even flip a burger behind the wheel of a truck.
These new guys are also brainwashed into believing that the FMCSA is looking out for them, they think ELDs are a good thing, they think cameras and other electronic driving aids afe the answer and will do whatever they are told. They refuse to work hard, theyvtreat this job like it's a friggin vacation. These drivers are the problem.
The guys who can navigate a mountain pass in a snowstorm, guys who can run in bumper to bumper traffic at 80mph without running anyone over, the guys who would deicer a hot load without question and do it safely, these guys are all leaving.
The guys who wrote the book about "being a cowboy is OK but ya gotta learn how to ride that horse first" they are gone and we are being replaced by a bunch of idiots who do not need to be behind the wheel of a truck.
For many of us trucks are a way of life and idiots are taking that away from us. The drivers you deal with, they are not truck drivers, they are imposters who collect a W2 for driving a truck. Me and thousands of other truckers want these goons gone, we want those mega carriers gone but we are powerless because we are outnumbered.
Just like the fights we face today, too many many people are afraid of sacrifice, too comfy in thier little worlds to do anything more than *. I'm not afraid, I've been involved in civil disobediance with a truck before, I'm the guy who organzied a 45MPH comvoy from the Illinois state line all the way to Columbus OH blocking many parts of I70 and was on the local news in Columbus. For me, being scared isn't a problem, it's going at it alone that is. I wanted to join the Bundys but my boss knew I wanted to go and kept me east of the Mississippi for over a month to keep me away.
I hate the ABS on my motorcycles. I turn it off when I think to. I do like the cruise control in my van.
Homer Simpson took over driving for Big Red, you may have seen that episode. Classic.
I belong to a few trucker pages on FB and everyday, every single day there are pictures and videos of these guys totaly screwing up. Trying to do U-Turns and running over things, crashes, ripping hoods off of parked trucks, racing trains and gettin hit, all sorts of stupid crap happening every day and it's 9Xs out of 10 done by idiots and it's only getting worse as the headhunters keep stuffing people who have no business driving a Honda Civi into trucks.
It has gotten to where I don't want to be around them. There is no courtesy anymore, it has become every man for himself. There are thousands of Bernie supporting and hillary supporting democrats out there now who think we arent regulated enough and wants more. They think we work too hard and want more restrictions to turn trucking into a 9-5 job. But yet these are the same fuys who sit and stare at thier ELOGs all day wimpering like a puppy as that clock winds down and they refuse to lift that throttle for anything, these are the guys causing most of the problems and screwing up.
Like I said, the good guys are quitting, I'm looking for a way out and it's because of these new drivers and the regulations. They have taken what used to be the best job for someone who loves freedom and ruined it. Trucking used to be freedom in its finest form, now we are targets for lawyers, the public hates us, the FMCSA is out of control and these libtards that are taking over is making it worse.
I still love trucks, I still love the open road but it has gotten to where I hate the job and the people in it.
How many times have you been caught behind a 65mph truck trying to pass another 65mph truck? How many times have you been cut off by a slow truck? How many times have you been stuck behind a slow truck riding rhe middle lane? How many times have you been in a truckstop in the evening and seen the gridlock caused by guys who cannot park in a parking spot? How many times have you been locked down on the fuel island because they take breaks while parked on the fuel island? How many stupid accidents have you seen latey? How about the guy yesterday flying through Omaha in rush hour traffic and flattened two cars killing a young man?
I belong to a few trucker pages on FB and everyday, every single day there are pictures and videos of these guys totaly screwing up. Trying to do U-Turns and running over things, crashes, ripping hoods off of parked trucks, racing trains and gettin hit, all sorts of stupid crap happening every day and it's 9Xs out of 10 done by idiots and it's only getting worse as the headhunters keep stuffing people who have no business driving a Honda Civi into trucks.
It has gotten to where I don't want to be around them. There is no courtesy anymore, it has become every man for himself. There are thousands of Bernie supporting and hillary supporting democrats out there now who think we arent regulated enough and wants more. They think we work too hard and want more restrictions to turn trucking into a 9-5 job. But yet these are the same fuys who sit and stare at thier ELOGs all day wimpering like a puppy as that clock winds down and they refuse to lift that throttle for anything, these are the guys causing most of the problems and screwing up.
Like I said, the good guys are quitting, I'm looking for a way out and it's because of these new drivers and the regulations. They have taken what used to be the best job for someone who loves freedom and ruined it. Trucking used to be freedom in its finest form, now we are targets for lawyers, the public hates us, the FMCSA is out of control and these libtards that are taking over is making it worse.
I still love trucks, I still love the open road but it has gotten to where I hate the job and the people in it.
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I retired from trucking for those very reasons. I can remember the day I retired and it was bitter sweet to say the least.
When I dropped my trailer at the terminal drop yard for the last time, took all my personal items from my tractor, loaded it in my four wheeler and drove off the lot I felt somewhat lost for some reason but the further away I got from the terminal the better I felt about my decision to retire.
I remember back on all the good times (and the bad)I had over the decades and how things went down hill the last 6 or 8 years to the point I just decided ,enough is enough and I'm outta here.
When I look at the antics going on in trucking I have to just shake my head and wonder how things got so out of hand.
The lack of skill and the attitude of truckers out there is nothing short of mind boggling in one respect but with fewer and fewer professional drivers out there for them to emulate it's understandable to some degree I suppose.
With self serving Goobernment officials that have never driven a truck and fleet owners that are only interested in making a buck running the show, I guess we shouldn't be surprised.
BSR,Allen and a couple of other professionals who's names I can't remember,
you deserve the respect and admiration of us all.
Be safe guys.
There is so much that has changed and it's not for the good. We are no longet family, now we just get in each others way. Trucking is full of snitches, full of crybabies who refuse to get the job done, no more taking care of customers nownit's all about whoncan get to the truckstop first to get that front row spot so they can play on the computer all night. Companies turning out warm bodies every week, warm bodies that don't care about trucking but are only interested in a paycheck.
Trucking used to be a society of good people, yeah we had our miscreants and screw ups but we took care of business. No more, it's over, trucking and trucks is all I know and it sickens me to see what it has become.
Oh what I would give to load in Salinas, CA on a Thursday night and partake in another Hunts Point 500 for Monday morning, all those trucks, running in packs, CB non stop with "Hey east bound, how's it looking over your donkey?" "Hey westbound, looking good back that way, aint seen nuthin for well over an hour!"
Or climbing down El Cajon in the middle of the night, letting those company trucks pass you, waiting for someone to yell on the CB, "They just flipped the sign, ramps full hammer down!!" Grab a gear, blow by the scale and it's free and clear all the way to Long Beach!!
God I miss those days [:(]
Good or bad weather find a good drive time goes fast. Not hard to give him room to move.You know the real daily rig drivers when driving on winding roads in bad weather. Just my two cents.