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  1. 12-21-2006 07:59 PM #1
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    Default Truck driver slang

    A few slang words that might help you guys out:

    Chicken coop : Weigh scale

    Super coop : Weigh scale with garage for full on inspection

    Full Grown, Bear : Usually a state trooper

    Choke n puke : restaurant

    Pickle Park : Truck stop, use your imagination

    Disco lights : lights on top of cop car, full blazin

    Meatwagon : Ambulance

    Camel : Slow mover

    Gater : Blown truck tire on the road

    Four wheeler : car/pickup with 4 wheels

    Ghost car : unmarked cop car

    Lot Lizard : Truck stop prostitute

    Rhubarb : The ditch "that car just hit the rhubarb"

    Brake check : stopped traffic in front of you, usually on the interstate

    Hammer down : Go fast

    Hammer lane : fast lane, left lane

    Granny lane : slow lane, right lane

    Parking lot : commercial vehicle that hauls cars/trucks

    Yardstick : Mile markers on the side of the interstate


    Some are painfully obvious, but you never know!

    Feel free to add your own!
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  2. 12-21-2006 08:29 PM #2
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    city kitty : local pd
    county mounty : local sheriffs dept
    "they're shooting you right in the face" or "he's got his gun pointed at your windshield" meaning the Radar Gun is being pointed directly at your truck as you are approaching
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  3. 12-21-2006 08:33 PM #3
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    2 in the comedian-road is getting slick-slow er down
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  4. 12-21-2006 08:43 PM #4
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    Default Re: Truck driver slang

    Quote Originally Posted by allan5oh
    A few slang words that might help you guys out:

    Chicken coop : Weigh scale

    Super coop : Weigh scale with garage for full on inspection

    Full Grown, Bear : Usually a state trooper

    Choke n puke : restaurant

    Pickle Park : Truck stop, use your imagination

    Disco lights : lights on top of cop car, full blazin

    Meatwagon : Ambulance

    Camel : Slow mover

    Gater : Blown truck tire on the road

    Four wheeler : car/pickup with 4 wheels

    Ghost car : unmarked cop car

    Lot Lizard : Truck stop prostitute

    Rhubarb : The ditch "that car just hit the rhubarb"

    Brake check : stopped traffic in front of you, usually on the interstate

    Hammer down : Go fast

    Hammer lane : fast lane, left lane

    Granny lane : slow lane, right lane

    Parking lot : commercial vehicle that hauls cars/trucks

    Yardstick : Mile markers on the side of the interstate


    Some are painfully obvious, but you never know!

    Feel free to add your own!

    Pickle park is a rest area, never heard of "camel, or rhubarb in my 30 yrs, how about you Yoopr? we always called a unmarked cop car "plain wrapper". Ive been home for 4 months nursing a knee surg. and they went and changed some of the lingo on me...lol
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  5. 12-21-2006 08:46 PM #5
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    nope-that one is new to me too
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  6. 12-21-2006 11:35 PM #6
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    rhubarb is pretty common up here.

    I always thought pickle park was a truck stop, I've been wrong many times before!
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    Default Slang

    "Granny lane: slow lane, right lane" Can also be the truck lane going up a mountain or long hill.
    "Chicken coop/Super coop": can be a POE in the west.
    "Gater" that would be 'gator, as in alligator due to the resemblance of the gator's hide and a truck tire tread.
    "local yokel/city kitty": town cop
    "county mountie": sheriff
    "skateboard": flatbed
    "rollin' refinery" pertoleum tanker
    BTW allan5oh, where's "here" as in your 20? BOL
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  8. 12-22-2006 09:24 AM #8
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    Old days we called blown Tire a Tennis Shoe
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    Kojak,with a Kodak

    Seat Cover :P

    Evil Kinevil

    Suicide Jockey.

    Front door,back door,rockin chair :P


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  10. 12-22-2006 10:50 AM #10
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sealord
    BTW allan5oh, where's "here" as in your 20? BOL
    Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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    Quote Originally Posted by allan5oh
    Quote Originally Posted by Sealord
    BTW allan5oh, where's "here" as in your 20? BOL
    Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
    Well??? Which IS it?? Make up your mind!

    Just kiddin'! Hey.... you ever get to run down here in the States? I would LOVE to get a run up near Banff!!!
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  12. 12-22-2006 11:19 AM #12
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    Yup, I absolutely love going down to the states. No I don't steal any of your guys domestic freight :P

    Banff is beautiful. I remember a few years back, all the federal campgrounds in Canada were on strike. Free camping! Theres nothing like waking up in the morning, opening your tent, and there's a mountain right there!

    As far as slang and Canada, well there is nowhere near as much as in the states. I mostly hear "rhubarb" around Minnesota, to be honest. You yankees light the CB up compared to us canucks.
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    There's nothing like waking up in the morning, opening your tent, and there's a mountain right there!
    10-4 on THAT!!! When I lived in Colorado, I went to the camping area at the base of the Maroon Bells one September. Woke up the next morning to sunshine.... and SNOW on the Bells!! Beautiful!!!

    Question for ya. Why does a Canadian beer company... Molson.... use a picture of the Maroon Bells (in Colorado) on their mirrors/advertising??? Who are they kidding?? And why don't they use Canadian mountains?

    It's ALMOST enough to make me NOT want to drink their beer!!! Almost. I actually LOVE a good cold Molson Golden!!
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    Absolutely no idea, not sure if they do the same in Canada.
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    molson is technically a us company,
    labatt is a australian company and bud is a canadian company,
    go figure whoever owns the companys has to put something from thier country of origin in the advertising.
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    Quote Originally Posted by proffit
    molson is technically a us company,
    labatt is a australian company and bud is a canadian company,
    go figure whoever owns the companys has to put something from thier country of origin in the advertising.
    Jeez!!! NOW I'm confused as heck, and don't know WHAT beer to drink!!

    Naw..... I drink Coors Light!! And WE put half naked "babes" in OUR commercials!!!

    [probably all Swedes! grumble, mumble, sip, HIC!]
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    Alligator- Big piece of blown-off retread, usually laying in your lane.
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    Question for ya. Why does a Canadian beer company... Molson.... use a picture of the Maroon Bells (in Colorado) on their mirrors/advertising??? Who are they kidding?? And why don't they use Canadian mountains?

    It's ALMOST enough to make me NOT want to drink their beer!!! Almost. I actually LOVE a good cold Molson Golden!! [/quote]

    Molson is a coors Brand, ya know from Golden COLORADO http://www.coors.com/brews_brands.asp. now, why they bill themselves as a Canadian beer I don't know. I wouldn't Identify myself with the likes of Celine Dion. Also I don't know why the have Killians IRISH red, or Blue Moon, A "belgian" beer. Its all made here in the states!
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    I'll take a nice tall pint of Fat Tire or Guiness thank you very much. You guys can keep your crappy macrobrewed beers.
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    Quote Originally Posted by KD7MIR
    Question for ya. Why does a Canadian beer company... Molson.... use a picture of the Maroon Bells (in Colorado) on their mirrors/advertising??? Who are they kidding?? And why don't they use Canadian mountains?

    It's ALMOST enough to make me NOT want to drink their beer!!! Almost. I actually LOVE a good cold Molson Golden!!
    Molson is a coors Brand, ya know from Golden COLORADO http://www.coors.com/brews_brands.asp. now, why they bill themselves as a Canadian beer I don't know. I wouldn't Identify myself with the likes of Celine Dion. Also I don't know why the have Killians IRISH red, or Blue Moon, A "belgian" beer. Its all made here in the states![/quote]

    Cool!!! Thanks for the info!!! You have answered one of the 3 remaining unanswered questions of life for me!!! I didn't KNOW it was a Coors brand! NOW it makes (somewhat) perfect sense to use the Maroon Bells! (not really!)

    More importantly.... NOW I can have a Molson without feeling like an unfaithful husband!!!
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