Trucking...a ghost rider...

What's aggravating as all can be is when those who sit behind a desk, at a company, always figure they can and should come up with more ways to 'educate' those in the field.

People whom have never driven a big truck, then decide to 'invent a driving course', that 'all' drivers must take.

Once again you get so called 'experts' telling you stuff you intuatively do, and have known for years.

This spoon fed angle, which is always angled from the top down, is really annoying as well as insulting.

Mainly white women, love to display their feet for all the world to see, while driving down the highway, as if their feet are blooming flowers or something.

I rarely ever see black female feet or non white female feet on display, but sometimes even 'W' males will have their feet all up on the dashboard as well, and this can cause psychological issues if you think the feet are female, and get all aroused, then look down and see it's a male.

The Trucking company I work for wants to start using natural gas to power it's rigs...hmm

This should be interesting, will find out more tomorrow, and update you as time allows.

What a trucker sees



This and more you will see as a commercial driver.

The good, the bad and the ugly.

The Holiday season can be a very lonely desolate time for OTR drivers


The holiday season can be a very lonely time for over the road drivers, here's a few reasons why

1. Many drivers just get stuck 'out there', as some truck stop, cause dispatcher wasn't able to get them back home, profit before drivers well being.
It's happened to me many times, long ago, when did OTR, but at least at the time I really didn't have any particular place I needed to be, but for drivers who have wives, lovers, mates, family, it can be a strain, but at least now days they can Zoom or talk on cell phone when away.

2. For single drivers - it can just feel humiliating and degrading to be stuck at a truck stop or rest area during Thanksgiving or Xmas.
It's happened to me plenty of times, and you really just don't feel like seeing anyone, but when living out of your truck, when nature calls, nature calls (number 2 requires a toilet), and so have to walk into truck stop, now they're called 'travel centers', head down, moral low, and see 'families' traveling together, happy, laughing, which makes you as a driver feel even worse.

Then got to work your way into a nasty restroom that smells like human butt.

I did it for years folks, and at first didn't mind (back when driving was my passion), but towards the end of my OTR days, it sucked, cause as a driver I'd feel like a throw away, that my only purpose in life was to move freight.

And even if stuck at truck terminal, NONE of the Terminal managers, employees, would ever invite drivers home for dinner, or anything just to get away from the warehoused environment.

Or at least I never got an invite, maybe cause I was to ugly to people.

If you're cute, younger and soxy, be it a male or female, funny how you always get invited to peoples homes, to party's, events...cute attractive people, male or female, should never take their looks for granted.

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Also, the holidays can be a bummer even for local or regional drivers, cause you're still always alone in cab of truck, and all you see all day long while driving is families packed together in cars going places together while you sit in cab of truck alone.

And in trucking, all the drivers, just look 'spent', now, tired and wore out...many just look physically neglected.

I was at a truck stop a week ago or so, and hadn't been to one in a while, and poor drivers, that's all I can say.

Their interaction with the cashiers is about the only female interaction most get.

When I was out there the gay drivers were known as 'good buddies', and would solicit on the C.B. radio, not sure if that still goes on cause haven't used a CB radio in years.

Driving is a lonely trade folks, and if 'W' and speak English, you'll really feel alienated these days out on the road.

Now society starting to appreciate drivers again, a bit to late for me though as the passion has run through me already.

To many years of neglect, emotional and mental, that being on the road has delivered to me.

The humiliation of being on the road stopped being worth it years ago.

Waking up and not having a clean private restroom to use is one of the worst parts about being over the road.

Waking up, whether at a rest area or travel center, and having to trudge inside and go to the bathroom around people you don't know, some are other drivers who are out and right slobs, and seemed were not properly potty trained when younger, it's just out and right gross who some others use the restroom, and or leave it looking.

Even some foreign people may not properly know how to use the restroom or toilet paper or how to dispose of it properly, either way it's gross, but if on the road that's you life.

Or if parked on side of road, in alley ect, cause no truck parking available, then wake up having to use the bathroom, then what?

What would you do?...when nature calls it calls.

It's just not worth it to me, hasn't been for years and years.
Once the excitement of being 'free' and seeing places wears off, it stops being worth it to a lot of people, and you for sure aren't going to get a younger spoiled generation to do that, who are use to being online and socializing all the time.

But you will get many foreigers to fill that trucking void who see it as a upgrade to where they left.

So if speak English out there on the road, you're lucking to find another native English speaker to talk with.

It's dreadfully lonely out there now, add that to being bossed around by dispatch, and watched, ye, many of these newer rigs have cameras in them, talk about humiliating.

Now they get to pry on you while you struggle emotionally at times or do private stuff in sleeper, ect.

It's the industries fault for driving away would be drivers.

Trucking today nothing like it was years ago, unless maybe own your own rig, and trailer, and operating authority where you call all the shots all of the time, but even that can drain you after a while.

It's hard to do everything all the time by yourself, is why many of those types of drivers hire out 3rd parties to run the accounting or ect.

In fairness, everythings changing though, and I'm sure others feel about their current trade as I do about trucking.

It's just the older you get, once realize not going to get rich doing it, and that you're working just to work rather than to build worth, than your perspective on many things begin to change.

Trucking can be a mind numbing trade at times

Trucking can really be a mind numbing trade at times, some people like that who have nothing really to offer the world other than 'labor'.
But for those who want more of an impact on society other than going from point A to B, and then back again, trucking will wear thin on you sooner than later.

Now mind you, back in the day, trucking indeed was a culture, they made movies about truckers, songs were written about truckers, truckers were seen as folk hero's, but those days are gone, and the class of men with big personalities who made trucking stand out as more than a job, they to, for the most part are gone also.

Now, they've been replaced by foreigners who bring with them their own culture, they've been replaced by inner city urban types, and or just older 'W' male types who although older, they know nothing about the old style trucking culture, rather they're just doing it for a paycheck, you can tell how they dress.

Truckers use to dress cool, truckers use to dress like WWF wrestlers, each had their own unique style, flair, and CB radio handle, but again, those days are gone, now all you have is fleets packed with generic, bland, no personality type of drivers who are newer, drive recklessly (not all, but to many for my taste just drive totally reckless).

There's no more 'Love of Nation', since about half the drivers all come from other nations now, from Russia to Mexico to Haiti, and you name it.

Most drivers I try to talk to now don't even speak full English, even 'White' drivers, whom you think are American, end up speaking Ukrainian, or Russian or some other Eastern block language.

No matter, freight still needs to be moved, it's just us types who were around during the last part of the hey day of trucking kind of miss how it use to be, when there was never a dull moment out there on the road, when drivers were truly independent, and didn't have cameras watching them all the time, in the cab, ect.

Now to me, it's just a bland trade, bland driving job, where most drivers glued to their cell phones and out of touch with the road right before them.