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  1. 01-30-2010 05:55 PM #1
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    Why do so many drivers worry about their image, like it means anything to anybody else? First it was the soccer mom's who had to show up the other mom's getting a bigger and better SUV. Then it was the construction contractor who couldn't get shown up by another contractor when they bought a bigger truck, with a bigger tool rack in the bed. Then it was the sports car guys who thought it was cool to drive with as many lights on as they could. Then everyone else driving a 4-wheeler starts driving with 4 headlights (cant say fog lights cause fog lights are actually amber). Then I guess having 'talkback', that f@**ot-roger-beep and an super charged radio that allows you to talk from New York to Denver wasnt enough, now half of the trucks drive with 4 headlights. Now there are too many professional drivers who are following 4-wheelers who think it is cool to drive well after sundown with just their parking lights on.

    when is it going to end? seriously? I'm all for doing whatever makes you happy, but when you do it 'just because you see someone else doing it so it must be 'cool"....is a bit lame. Not to mention driving with 4 headlights, or none at all is just plain unsafe. but when it comes to safety, a line has to be drawn.
    O(s)bama passed a law making it a $2700 fine for a professional driver caught using a hand-held device while in operation of a CMV. That is fine. I'm all for it. But what about drivers when they use the CB mic? Or what about eating a snack that only requires use of one hand? After all, the snack is a hand-held device. That device is providing nutrition (or lack of) to your body.

    What is the fine for being caught while in operation of a 4-wheeler? Oh, thats right....its only a fine if you're in a state that has that law. It is becoming more of a habbit for our goverment to create laws to handcuff the one branch of transportation that keeps this country rolling. Again, i'm all for safety, but when it is becoming harder and harder for drivers to do their jobs without the worry of getting a ticket, it is time us truck drivers grow some b@lls. When are we going to band together regardless who we work for, or whether or not we are O/O, L/Os or company drivers......we just need to shut down for a full week, maybe even 10 days. Then lets see the general motoring public how 'needed' us truck drivers are.
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  2. 01-30-2010 06:19 PM #2
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kevin0915 View Post
    .....it is time us truck drivers grow some b@lls. When are we going to band together regardless who we work for, or whether or not we are O/O, L/Os or company drivers......we just need to shut down for a full week, maybe even 10 days. Then lets see the general motoring public how 'needed' us truck drivers are.

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  4. 01-30-2010 07:18 PM #4
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kevin0915 View Post
    Again, i'm all for safety, but when it is becoming harder and harder for drivers to do their jobs without the worry of getting a ticket, it is time us truck drivers grow some b@lls. When are we going to band together regardless who we work for, or whether or not we are O/O, L/Os or company drivers......we just need to shut down for a full week, maybe even 10 days. Then lets see the general motoring public how 'needed' us truck drivers are.
    Back when I was driving, I was all for it. And, I know of support in some areas that one might not expect. But, in all the years I was driving, that's all I ever heard. TALK. Sure, there were slow-downs, planned strikes, but nothing actually came to pass. A few drivers tried to do something, and wound up in jail. (well, yeah, they tried the wrong way. You can not impede the flow of traffic.) There have been so few ocassions that drivers parked there trucks and hung out banners, that I don't even need one hand to count them. But, when you do go out on strike, one of the first things you need to do is teach the public what it's all about. Otherwise, they will not understand any part of it. It will simply be an inconvenience to them, and bring them to resent it, and you.
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  5. 01-31-2010 11:48 AM #5
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    container drivers ban together all the time.. and look they still get paid like crap and drive crappy trucks.. hey just saying..
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  6. 01-31-2010 12:12 PM #6
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    [QUOTE=Kevin0915;473866]Why do so many drivers worry about their image, like it means anything to anybody else?

    kevin all stressed out need a vacation. kind of like an andy rooney rant.
    i noticed lot of drivers want to be leaders and have a loud cb and tell others theyre not PROFESSIONAL and enforce the lane restrictions
    on this forum ive noticed some drivers are irritated that other drivers play arcade type games in truck stops and claim they spend huge cash doing that.
    maybe some of these people are young and single and have not mismanaged their affairs like you and are trying to have fun.
    i know when i was doing the 48 + i had a lot less bills and tried to stay in motels and rent cars and go everywhere . if you are so miserable you gonna sit in your truck and cook noodles at the rest area ill be driving by heckling you on my crappy cb and turn off those white fog lights!!!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kevin0915 View Post
    ...we just need to shut down for a full week, maybe even 10 days. Then lets see the general motoring public how 'needed' us truck drivers are.
    Just need the fuel haulers to shut down, the rest won't be going anywhere then either.

    How needed us truck drivers are, lol. I hear that all the time and just shake my head. I'll never get why so many truckers seem to think they are more important than everyone else who keeps things going. What if all the day care workers shut down? What if all the fuel suppliers shut down? What if all the grocery stores shut down? Sorry but a truck driver is no more or less important than anyone else.
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    tinytim, you been on vacation? Or something? Haven't seen you post here in a while. You gonna stay around a while?
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  9. 01-31-2010 09:06 PM #9
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    I check in once in a while. Just not too much to say I guess

    This place used to be busier. Would like to see that again. Unfortunately I don't have a lot of questions that haven't been answered and I'm not one to post just for the sake of posting usually.
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    As for worrying about image I know I do. Not in the sense of keeping up with the Jones' or following the herd. To me it's about being reliable and consistent in the eyes of the company and the co-drivers. It's about keeping the truck clean, not giving the four wheelers another reason to rag on truck drivers and not making myself or the company look bad in the eyes of the customers or other truck drivers. Basically what my sig says.
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    how did we go from worrying about our image and keeping up with the other guy to going on strike????/
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    Tinytim you are right this board used to rock,
    However now a days it seems to be a poitical forum used to bash those who do not see eye to eye. I have backed off using the board for the last month and have come back once or twice just to see what is going on and in all honesty I don't see much of a change, the same 6 to 10 regulars who post on a daily basis. The same ole, same ole. The feel of the board has changed and it just does not seem as member friendly as it has been for me over the last 6 years that I have been around.

    Kevin, This is America land of the free and land of the foolish that is why so many ppl care about image, people watch tv and decide they have to be better then Joe Blow. unfortunalty this is one major con that came with the progession of the industrial age.

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    Actually the only image drivers / trucks have is that they are big...

    and usually in the way of the 4 wheelers and people have to go around us.
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    Quote Originally Posted by TimberWolf View Post
    Tinytim you are right this board used to rock,
    However now a days it seems to be a poitical forum used to bash those who do not see eye to eye. I have backed off using the board for the last month and have come back once or twice just to see what is going on and in all honesty I don't see much of a change, the same 6 to 10 regulars who post on a daily basis. The same ole, same ole. The feel of the board has changed and it just does not seem as member friendly as it has been for me over the last 6 years that I have been around.

    Kevin, This is America land of the free and land of the foolish that is why so many ppl care about image, people watch tv and decide they have to be better then Joe Blow. unfortunalty this is one major con that came with the progession of the industrial age.

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    As in any other time in our history, if the economy were good, politics would be a boring subject. With the economy as it is, and so many politicians stating that they can and will do something about it, yes, it does become a heated debate.
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    (edited...it's one thing to whine and cry because someone hurt your feelings in a political thread. It's quite another to start posting stuff that is best left on the porn sites you surf. That has not and will not EVER be tolerated here. Want to argue politics? Knock yourself out. Want to do everything you can to disgust other members? We knock you out ourselves. Done and you're gone. We'll call that a permaban, too. Thank you and have a wonderful day.)
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    I know threads have a tendency to go off topic, especially when the topic isn't really that clear, but how did politics and hermaphrodites and TimberWolf's drunken escapades get brought into this?
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    The thread was on trucker's image. Let's steer it back to that and leave the red light district stuff alone. Thanks.


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    this thread was never about truckers image...it was kevin doing some venting about...well..i dont know what about. he went from truckers images to going on strike to four wheelers not being treated like big trucks. not sure where timberwolf went with it..but apparently it got him banned. but i do agree with him..this board aint what it used to be. lots of polotics and the same people saying the same stuff.
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    I guess I try to keep a nice image. (whatever that means) I've always tried to do everything right.
    Kevin, if it were me, I'd try to do what is right. Drive your truck as safe as possible. Keep yourself from getting into anything that you can't get yourself out of.
    Your post looks like a full plate. I wouldn't worry about all that right now.


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