Amusing factual stories - real life experiences in trucking

[magician_73]

Well Good Dr. Who - just seen your message posted the 16th about looking for a 'new hero'....yea, right? - Hey man, if I had the correct email addy for you, I'd write - have previously and they keep coming back 'undeliverable'.....I'll send you a PM informing you of the email addy and the one I have for you. Keep the thread alive - the 'Marx Bros' would be proud of you! :P

[Doctor Who]

Wow this thread actually made 13 pages, not bad!!!!

Anyway I sent you a PM adjusting the email address and as far as the Brothers Marx, well the only thing I can say is I do miss the OLDdays, or would that be DAZE!!!

Anyway been busy and all fun has been put on hold until I can figure out which direction I'm going... It's a real bitch when someone is DIRECTIONALLY challenged!!!

Later!!!!

[magician_73]

[quote="Doctor Who"]Wow this thread actually made 13 pages, not bad!!!!

:shock: Yup, can't believe it's made it this far :!: Little did we know when it all started - what - two years ago :?:

Hang in there Doc!

[magician_73]

You mentioned Canadian adventures...well, way back when, around 1959 or 60 made a trip up #2 Hwy (from Calgary to Edmonton, Alberta. Cold winter night and I was looking forward to stopping in Red Deer at a little cafe, fuelstop for some chow and hot coffee. As I pulled into the lot, the lights went out in the cafe. My heart sank - just my luck, I didn't make it in time. About the time I was ready to head on up the road, a lady walked out from the cafe and I got out to meet her. She asked if I had planned on eating there, to which I replied, 'yes indeed'. She answered, 'well, we're officially closed and the grill is turned off'. However, since you're hungry, if you'll settle for a sandwich, we'll gladly feed you.' I followed her into the cafe where they (she and her husband) proceeded to make me a couple of roast beef sandwiches and a fresh pot of coffee. After the sandwiches, they treated me to a piece of homemade cherry pie. When it came time to settle the bill, they would only let me pay for the sandwiches - coffee and pie were on the house. After returning to the truck, I started to reflect and wondered if I could ever encounter that friendly hospitality here in the states. I doubted it then and to this day I have never found a place here in the states, willing to open up once they closed - to feed a hungry trucker. Needless to say, every driver I encountered was told of the little cafe in Red Deer.

[Doctor Who]

God 59 or 60 I was just a little kid... :P

Too bad there isn't any more of those type establishments!!!!

[magician_73]

[quote="Doctor Who"]God 59 or 60 I was just a little kid... :P
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[b]Heck Doc, judging by that 'yoyo' (which incidently has been going non-stop for a couple of years)...you're still in your second childhood :!: I wonder how long before that string breaks :?:

[magician_73]

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Years ago, a good friend of mine got fed up with the hassles of being inspected everytime he went into California. On one particular trip he said he was stopped four times between the Oregon line and Los Angeles. I ran into him a couple of months later and he informed me that he had solved the problem of being hassled by CA (and other states for that matter) regarding inspections. I asked how? 'Well, he informed me....he obtained an air tank and mounted it directly in front of the drive axles of the tractor. He ran a line up to the cab and installed a discharge valve. He then went down to the local sporting goods store and purchased some synthetic 'skunk piss' which he dumped into the air tank and then charged it up. When he rolled into Ca at Shasta, they motioned for him to pull around and into the inspection shed....Well, he informed me....he reached down and pulled the discharge valve for the air tank and sprayed the whole undercarriage of the tractor with that synthetic skunk piss. He said as the one CHP inspector was motioning him into the shed, the otherone was motioning him right through the other end...needless to say, no more inspections for everytime he gets pulled around, he just dumps the tank and sprays the undercarriage....Now that's a really cool brainstorm :!:

[magician_73]

Well Doc, reflecting upon further Canadian adventures....I learned never to complain about any mountain grade here in the states after encountering one in Canada....If you are coming East on #1 Highway from Vancouver, BC through Kelona, Kamloops and Revelstoke, BC you will encounter 'Rogers' Pass'....and the first time I dropped off of it (back in late 50's), it was winter time, snowstorm and down I went....a narrow two-lane highway (TransCanada #1)...no guardrails...twisting and turning, switchbacks....with anywhere from a 8 to 14% grade down for over 20+ miles....it will get your attention and never again will you complain about any mountain pass here in the States....And if you have driven in Western Canada in wintertime...you know they never plow the highways...use a snowblower and let the road have a snowpacked surface....The first trip down you learn how to put on your underwear....yellow in front, brown in back

[magician_73]

Years ago while delivering a shipper in norther Montana (Malta, to be exact)(close to the Canadian border....I decided to take a shortcut down through the boonies to Billings. As I was rolling down the narrow two lane highway, I rounded a curve and directly in front of me, a bridge with a height sign of 10'4"....Needless to say, I locked up the brakes and stop about 500 yards from the bridge. There wasn't any shoulder to pull off on, and I couldn't remember the last place I had seen where I could turn around. Sitting there pondering my predictament, envisoning having to back up for miles, when suddenly around the curve came a bullwagon who flew right by me. I grabbed the mike and tried to tell him about the low bridge ahead, which I thought he hadn't seen. He came back on the radio, laughing...just as he sailed under the bridge with plenty of clearance....telling me the bridge was actually 14'4" and that some kids had painted over the 4 and made it into a '0' a few months ago..........Needless to say, relief passed through this ole character that I wouldn't be backing up for miles....

[Doctor Who]

OK Magician and anyone else who had asked: The new and maybe not so improved Doctor Who Trucker tales website is in the final stages of completion...

The Road Show, who knows it may become a hit, then again they said the samething about the USFL

See ya'll there real soon!!!

[magician_73]

:shock: Mercy me, finally we all have something to anticipate - get the lead out Doc :!:

[Doctor Who]

Mercy me, finally we all have something to anticipate - get the lead out Doc

Fine thing coming from someone who ain't gonna post no more!!! :P

Trust me my friend it'll be a slow work in progress, I doubt I'll get as good as Mr. Hefner but maybe I'll be as good as Helen Gurley Brown!!! :shock:

[Doctor Who]

Riding the Dog




A recent conversation with a recruiter brought up the subject of transportation to orientation. Driving the POV would be out of the question, flying was one option, renting a car and taking a bus was the last option. Well flying isn?t too bad but horrible nightmares started flowing back from bus rides past!!!!

A date just recently had me riding the Dog from Harrisburg, PA to Wilson, NC and all it took was 20 and half hours. First mistake, I should have taken Amtrak. The bus left Harrisburg 30 minutes late did a stop in York, PA and I was supposed to switch busses in Baltimore for a bus going to Richmond. Which was great it would put me in Wilson at 04:30 AM, wrong when we arrived in Baltimore the Richmond bus was full. The ?Coach Operator?, which Greyhound drivers prefer to be called, told me and two other riders to get back on the bus we just left and go to DC, things were looking rather bleak.
Upon arrival in DC at 10:30 I found the information minister of disinformation and was told there was a bus leaving at 12:40 for Wilson, great I thought I?ll still be home by 06:00. I wandered off to get something to eat, talked to the XYL on the phone and wandered around a bit. At 12:30 the disinformation minister found me and told me he was wrong about the bus schedule and that I would have to wait until 06:50 for the next bus, in the mean time another bus bound for Richmond was just backing out. ?That?s just terrific!? I told the minister ?I just missed my last chance tonight to get home!? He just shrugged his shoulders and walked away, I really wanted to beat his ass just for fun!!

Resigning myself to the fact that I?m spending the night in the Greyhound terminal in DC I found a bunch of seats in a sorry waiting room. I didn?t spend much time alone as a gaggle of folks gravitated towards me, a hippie, a young dude traveling from Montana, a college kid and a 40 year old chick from Long Island who had more problems than any human being I know and a couple of other colourful characters!!! Since I wasn?t going anywhere I was the dedicated guardian of the luggage as these folks wandered about. I spread out my sleeping bag so the ladies could get some rest; the guys had to fend for themselves including me..

To be continued........

Hmmm bussing at its finest!!!!

[Doctor Who]

From the Red Cross archives

On a rather warm North Carolina spring day I was chauffeuring the Disaster Chairperson around downtown Wilson and I pulled up next to an older Trans Am with two rather attractive young ladies occupying the front seats, oh before I forget, the T/A had a ?T? top.
I made the mistake of saying something about the young ladies in the car and the next thing I knew the Chairperson undid his seatbelt and climbed over me to get a better ?look?. Just a brief reminder, he is deaf and legally blind. The young lady in the passenger seat started laughing extremely hard and I noticed an odd yellow stain appear in her white jeans and also noticed a yellowish liquid occupying the seat with her and I started to laugh as the driver of the T/A slammed the gas and pulled the best left hand turn I had seen in quite a long time. Burt Reynolds had nothing on this chick.
The Chairperson asked me what had happened and I told him that the young lady in the passenger seat found your stunt humourous and pissed her pants.
It did make the rest of our day!!!!

[Doctor Who]

For the rest of the Greyhound "NIGHTMARE" see the somewhat unofficial Doctor Who site, the address is a post or two up the page

[magician_73]

:?: Does that 'yoyo' ever need lubricating, Doc?
And by the way, I figure 'what the hell' - won't be the '1st time' - right?
Anyway, remember there was a thread 'Trivia'....can't remember where it was located and don't feel like spending hours looking for it....so I'll just throw some 'trivia' questions in here...which incidently, is approaching 8,000 views...pretty cool :!:

Truckstop Trivia: If you remember these truckstops, you'll be telling your age for certain:

Name the city and state for each:

Key Truckstop

Cigar City Truckstop

Smoke City Truckstop

Charlie's Truckstop

Roadrunner Truckstop

Truck'n'Travel Truckstop

Peartree Truckstop

T & R Truckstop

I-10 Truckstop

Tiger Truckstop (Texas)

Cee Gee's Truckstop

Evergreen Truckstop

Original Burn's Bros Truckstop

Pantyhose Junction

Tomahawk Truckstop

MountainView Truckstop

Just a few for starters, don't want to tax the ole brain too much :!:

[Doctor Who]

Cigar City Truckstop

Uh, would that be Tampa FL.

Roadrunner Truckstop

Phoenix, AZ

Tiger Truckstop (Texas)

Amarillo, TX

Smoke City Truckstop

Birmingham, AL

The brain fade is really bad today.....

Oh by the way.... It'll be 8,000 before the anniversary date. Going to have to come up with more humour to keep this thread going!!!!

[Doctor Who]

The thread finally broke------8,000


:rock: arty:

[magician_73]

:!: :!:
Well, who would have ever thought this thread would reach 8000 and 14 pages??? Mercy me :?:
More stories to come - guaranteed :!: And by the way, what about the rest of the truckstops on the trivia list?

[magician_73]

Years ago, roughly 20 or so, I was headed westbound on I-80 in Wyoming. It was a typical winter day in Wyoming..blowing snow, snow/icy roads and limited visibility. As I exited the tunnel in Green River, I immediately spotted a Roadway upside down in the center median...and there to my total surprise, the driver was on top of the upside down tractor attempting to drape 'iron' over the drive axle. I got to a stop, jogged back and as I stood under the driver, yelled up and asked him if he was alright. 'I'm alright', he replied. I then responded, 'driver, I don't mean to laugh but what the hell are you doing draping 'iron' over the wheels after the fact'?
He smiled, 'well, got to get them on before the Highway Patrol arrives so as not to get that $1000 fine for not have them on'.....This has to be the strangest (and in a way, funniest) sight seen over the years..