Newbie's and old timer's

[repete]

This is for all the new drivers and the BBR's Last night I after fueling at a Pilot and pulling foward I was walking toward the back of my truck when I saw a rig come roaring into the entrance and the swerve into my lane. I stopped at the corner of my trl as this *****hole shot passed the pumps and almost rearended my trl!! He had to back up a good 3 feet! It was a good thing I stopped and another driver almost had to jump back as he was about to walk thru.
SLOW DOWN when pulling into the fuel area DUH there's people walking around. And PULL YOUR FREAKIN TRUCK UP after you fuel and before you go inside and remember thats NOT a parking space!
Get in and get out! If your going to be more than a couple min. park the rig in (assuming you can) a space than go in!


If your offended by this than your prolly guilty of it
Thanks I feel better now

[Hawkjr]

since i run at night alot, i usually park in front of the fuel island, but don't that many trucks be out and i can take my time..

[dle]

I've also seen increasingly the situation where drivers just go flying through the fuel islands and they aren't looking to see where they are going (except where they are going to park), not looking at the people walking around the fuel islands.

Seen a number of them talking on their cell phones, talking on their CB's.

[Biscuit Lips]

A lot of truck drivers just drive WAY to fast everywhere in the truck stop, peiod.
I used to confront them and kinda tell them they should probably slow it down a bit for obvious reasons, but most were just arrogant bastards.

[Orangetxguy]

A lot of truck drivers just drive WAY to fast everywhere in the truck stop, peiod.
I used to confront them and kinda tell them they should probably slow it down a bit for obvious reasons, but most were just arrogant bastards.

+1

As with what Repete posted. I had scaled at the Flying J in Tacoma (Fife actually) a few years ago and was walking back out to my truck. As I walked across the drive-way to my truck, a BBR on his cell phone came hauling butt around the far fuel pump, and turned the corner. I was not run over for the simple fact that I was able to jump onto the corner of his hood. He S.H.I.T. himself when he saw me up there. He did it again when the J called the Fife PD out there, and he was ticketed for reckless driving, after the looked at the tape...yeah...that J has security video on their lot.

My nephew whom has Cerebral Palsy, was sitting in my truck and saw me jump up on the hood of that Pete. He was in bad shape, from having a Grand Mall while I was getting off that truck.

The drivers attitude? "What did I do wrong?"

Few drivers out here are "Professional" anymore. They are mostly laid off office people, who were retrained to drive.

[Scottt]

They are mostly laid off office people, who were retrained to drive.

I resemble that statement. Are you saying the only ones that drive stupid are laid off office people? Dumbest statement I have read on here in a long time.

So what does that make you?

[Orangetxguy]

I resemble that statement. Are you saying the only ones that drive stupid are laid off office people? Dumbest statement I have read on here in a long time.

So what does that make you?

Actually....I believe I was stating that a majority of the "new" drivers out here on the road are people whom lost their "office" jobs, and were re-trained to drive a truck. You prove that thought.

Are all the Rambo's that drag race in truckstops former office workers? No. I didn't think I implied that. Why did you take offence?


I see kids that drive truck quite well. They pay attention, approach their turns in a low gear, and at slow speeds, and make the turns look easy. I also see kids that drive a truck like they would drive their Honda Civic. I see the same things in older drivers too.

What is wrong with entering a truck stop at 3 to 5 miles per hour, and approaching the fuel island at the same or slower speed?
What is wrong with stopping as you are driving through the parking area, and allowing people on foot, either heading to the building or returning to their truck, to cross a drive safely?

What is wrong with stopping when you see a truck backing into a parking spot, and allowing that driver to complete his or her manuvers safely?

Those are things a "Professional" driver does.

I can not tell you the numbers of times I have watched a truck squeeze past a truck that is backing into a stall, the driver doing the backing getting surprised by a truck suddenly "being there", in front of them. Who's schedules are so tight, that safety was thrown out the door? Why do drivers feel the need to roll through a fuel island at 15 or 20 miles an hour? Plenty do.

I can not tell you the numbers of times I have sat at a fuel island, waiting for a driver to come out to the truck to move on. The fuel island is just that, a place to fuel your truck. It isn't a parking area. You don't pull through, then go inside to shower, or eat a meal. In some cases I can see doing so to use the restroom. But then the driver should return to the truck and move it.
Regardless....pass through the island slowly. Stop before driving past the pumps. It won't hurt anyone.

That incident I mentioned having happened at the Flying J in Fife WA. The driver was an office manager whom had been laid off. He was retrained to drive the truck, and when a police officer showed up at the truckstop, and then proceeded to write him a ticket, his response was exactly what I put down. "What did I do wrong?" He was driving for Jim Palmer Trucking. Had it been anything except a Pete, I would not have been able to get on the fender...and my ***** would have been run-over....3 feet from a fuel pump. That was in August 2003. The bruises on my thighs lasted for 3 months.

I had scaled my truck, pulled off the scales and parked on the back line. I was returning to my truck, after getting the scale ticket, when "Office Boy" came zipping onto the lot and around the fuel island. That lot is not big enough to be racing.

Not all the bad drivers are laid off office workers. There are plenty that are laid off construction workers, automotive plant workers, steel mill workers too. Generally though...people who do construction or work in a mill, have respect for the truck and what it can do...not all...but a majority.



These are just some of the things that just get me steaming. I could do another rant on the parking lot's being turned into a urinal. OR the fools who go into a restroom...and miss the urinal and whizz on the floor instead.

[Scottt]

Must be why I go to truck stops for only 2 reasons.

1. I fuel everyday around 1:30pm
2. After fueling park and take a shower.

The BBR's, CB Rambo's and everyone else can play in the truckstops. I don't need or have time for the truck stop shenanigans.

I go to the same area everyweek and stop for fuel and take breaks at the same place going out and the same place coming back. Some might think it sounds boring but I bought my truck for 1 reason and that is to make money and it is working for me.

I take a break at a small rest area in Kansas going out and coming back. The rest of my breaks are in Walmart parking lots. I cook all my meals in the truck, no truckstop food for me.

If I unload late in the afternoon in LA and can't reload until the next morning I use the Check Inn Card and get a cheap rate on a motel room and I call Domino's