stuck at truck stop another week-end

[BIG JEEP on 44's]

why would anyone get offended by a term used to describe companies in the OTR industry that only reflects them accurately based on their business practice ?...it would be different if the term reflected the driver...or if you were the owner of a "COOLIE" carrier reading the posts , but for a driver to be offended is just confusing.

[belpre122]

why would anyone get offended by a term used to describe companies in the OTR industry that only reflects them accurately based on their business practice ?...it would be different if the term reflected the driver...or if you were the owner of a "COOLIE" carrier reading the posts , but for a driver to be offended is just confusing.

Because they don't understand that part of it Jeep. They are trying to make it something that it is not. I knew that GMAN was lost, but I thought that Karnajj read enough into it all to understand that I am actually on his side. Oh well. See what I get for thinking?

Initially I thought that Karnajj may have a very valid point about the frequency of my "coolie carrier" references. It occurred to me that Karnajj was at least saying something that I should consider, and I certainly was.

Sure blew that outta the water rather quickly. Oh well.

[slodsm]

You guys kill me.

It seems like every decent human being out there in a truck runs LTL or Local because I seem to find a lot of guys online who are intelligent and easy to carry on a conversation with............................

Then I walk into the Flying J, there is only one full set of teeth in the room (combined amongst everyone) and it smells like some of the bad days in Iraq when no one had been able to shower for a week.

Why do I love this so damn much 90% of the time yet have to be surrounded by people who could care less about their hygiene, their filthy mouths in front of the waitresses (don't get me wrong, I was a Marine for 11 years and change, I can make your average man blush with what comes out of my mouth but I was raised better than to say that **** in front of women) and the attitudes?

It makes me want to hand over my keys some days and go back into aviation but I am so much less stressed here than I was signing off on planes safe for flight and worrying I "may" have missed something. Granted I never did and probably never will but it's a constant worry and double and triple check because you are playing with peoples lives there.


I am done ranting, I think I will just go buy my own damn truck and run flatbed in the south west and see if I can stay above water and out of some of these places that make me want to vomit lol.

No really, I'm done ranting now completely.

[Karnajj]

Belpre, I neither need nor want you "to be on my side".

[Mackman]

When you continue to use the word "Coolie" it comes across as an insult to any otr drivers.

Not all OTR drivers are coolies. I dont think walmart drivers are coolies. The only person the word coolie my insult are ones that think they are coolies. Which is 95% of OTR drivers. I cant help it if they want to work for peanuts. Like LBJ said The truth hurts. But i can see some people cant handle the truth. So keep on trucking for your pennys a mile.

[Karnajj]

When you continue to use the word "Coolie" it comes across as an insult to any otr drivers.

Not all OTR drivers are coolies. I dont think walmart drivers are coolies. The only person the word coolie my insult are ones that think they are coolies. Which is 95% of OTR drivers. I cant help it if they want to work for peanuts. Like LBJ said The truth hurts. But i can see some people cant handle the truth. So keep on trucking for your pennys a mile.

Bold talk from someone who can't hold a job for more than a few months at a time. If you can't handle that part of the industry that's your problem. Keep your ****ing opinions to yourself. Nobody has commented on the fact that you are a lowly dump truck driver.

Are you at the ***** hole pilot in Syracuse ,NY... i broke down there friday this past Memorial weeked...i been there before ,but only over night with quick shower b4 leaving...well due to break down on friday ,and cat being closed sat,sun,mon i got stuck there 4 days ...And this pos place is just like the pos pilot off trinaty lane in Nashville,TN...no laundry for drivers WTF ,But they got video games ...the pos super 8 i stayed at down the street tuesday,wedesday...did not either,and without the truck i spent 40 bucks round trip 6 miles for a taxi to go do laundry.

i just put out my resume this home time ,because in addition to low miles and only .33 cpm Gainey can't even offer their divers the ability to keep the truck cool when on break,as they only give 30% idle time ,which is only 3.5 hours a day on top of 50 moving hours which could be 2500-3000 miles...heck they sat me in Dallas Tx for 2 days of 100 degree weather ,and they expect no idilng ,and don't do buiness with ide aire b/c they are both chapter 11...they offer no alteratives to get a/c in the summer and heat in the winter without idiling the truck ...they wrote me up for idiling 8hrs day while sleeping because it's more than 3.5hrs allowed ...in order to not get wrote up again i paid $140.00 for 2 days in a motel ,and then i get qualcomm message stating goo job your idle is down ...no ***** sherlock !...that's because i wasn't in te truck the 2 100 degree days t sat in Dallas...I can't wait to get away...I'm even looking at Werner again b/c atleast they respected the driver enough to give them a/c in the summer,and heat in the winter...and not just while driving... :wink:

Coolie OTR trucking. Sounds more like prison to me.

I'm even looking at Werner again b/c atleast they respected the driver enough to give them a/c in the summer,and heat in the winter...and not just while driving...

That was before diesel was almost $5.00/gallon.

See, this explains the massive turnover rates in that biz. Drivers get screwed at one outfit and think the next will be better...only to get screwed again. What beats me is why people put up with it.

Only when drivers finally get wise and say "Enough is enough!" will the BS end. Until then, I don't wanna hear any whiners.

[seadawg]

where are you out of .....might check out some of the coolie carriers for a dedicated account.....better planning and most sitting is done at home

Live in the SE,GA-SC

[seadawg]

Ever pulled tankers? I got layed over this weekend as well. Company put me up in a Holiday Inn Thursday and Friday Night. I got paid 16 hours layover pay and got a load out Saturday headed for home.

Yea,I hauled gas for a year,dropped my hazmat when I renewed my license,though about checking out some tank companies that don't require a hazmat.

[Mackman]

When you continue to use the word "Coolie" it comes across as an insult to any otr drivers.

Not all OTR drivers are coolies. I dont think walmart drivers are coolies. The only person the word coolie my insult are ones that think they are coolies. Which is 95% of OTR drivers. I cant help it if they want to work for peanuts. Like LBJ said The truth hurts. But i can see some people cant handle the truth. So keep on trucking for your pennys a mile.

Bold talk from someone who can't hold a job for more than a few months at a time. If you can't handle that part of the industry that's your problem. Keep your **** opinions to yourself. Nobody has commented on the fact that you are a lowly dump truck driver.

I can tell you have no clue what your talking about. Lets see in AUG i will be at my job for 1 year. Before that i worked a Venezia who paid coolie wages for 3 weeks. Unlike you i think my time is worth more then coolie money. Before that i worked on tugs for about 2 months and just didnt like the job. The job before that i was there 2.5 years driving tankers. This lowly dump truck driver makes about 1k a week and works a whole lot less hours then you for it.

When will the COOLIES LEARN

[belpre122]

Belpre, I neither need nor want you "to be on my side".

10-4 Coolnajj

[Mackman]

Coolnajj

[Jay B]

When you continue to use the word "Coolie" it comes across as an insult to any otr drivers.

Not all OTR drivers are coolies. I dont think walmart drivers are coolies. The only person the word coolie my insult are ones that think they are coolies. Which is 95% of OTR drivers. I cant help it if they want to work for peanuts. Like LBJ said The truth hurts. But i can see some people cant handle the truth. So keep on trucking for your pennys a mile.

Bold talk from someone who can't hold a job for more than a few months at a time. If you can't handle that part of the industry that's your problem. Keep your **** opinions to yourself. Nobody has commented on the fact that you are a lowly dump truck driver.

I can tell you have no clue what your talking about. Lets see in AUG i will be at my job for 1 year. Before that i worked a Venezia who paid coolie wages for 3 weeks. Unlike you i think my time is worth more then coolie money. Before that i worked on tugs for about 2 months and just didnt like the job. The job before that i was there 2.5 years driving tankers. This lowly dump truck driver makes about 1k a week and works a whole lot less hours then you for it.

When will the COOLIES LEARN

Lowly dump truck driver? Gosh my feelings are hurt because sometimes I have to move piles of dirt around the county.
Today they even made me drive the water truck. Boo hoo, I am so ashamed that someone might see me. It was horrible, I had to wait in my truck for a couple of hours between sprays and I forgot to pick up a newspaper this morning on the way to work and had to read yesterdays news WHILE GETTING PAID.
Sure I prefer to drive one of the lowboys, but I am the new driver and can and will drive anything the company has.

And the best part? I get to come home every day and play with my baby and sleep with my wife. Who is sleeping with your wife while you spend weeks at a time sleeping in urine drenched parking lots wishing the company you drive for would buy APUs, Karnajj?

[Karnajj]

Who is sleeping with your wife while you spend weeks at a time sleeping in urine drenched parking lots wishing the company you drive for would buy APUs, Karnajj?

JayB you have really shown what a lowlife SOB you really are. Needless to say if you and I were in the same place at the same time you would be nothing but a bloody pile of **** on the floor. If I get banned for saying that tough ****, it needed to be said.

[DDCavi]

WTF? Everyone here drives trucks, chill out Who gives two ****s how the other person makes their living, atleast theyre not collecting.

Also I dont see "coolie" being insulting but when its written in EVERY sentence its so damn old. Get a thesaurus.

[BanditsCousin]

WTF? Everyone here drives trucks, chill out Who gives two ****s how the other person makes their living, atleast theyre not collecting.

Also I dont see "coolie" being insulting but when its written in EVERY sentence its so damn old. Get a thesaurus.

Well said.

I think I'm gonna change my signature to "when I see a daycab, I see 1/4 of my paycheck". That way I can be arrogant too from my side of the fence.

Read the OP's first post. Then read 2 pages of "otr guys at the Flying J are scumbugs" and blah blah blah. Funny how I stop at Flying J's. I think CAD should add "coolie" to the swear list so it shows up in different symbols. Its old and we get it.

[belpre122]

Read the OP's first post. Then read 2 pages of "otr guys at the Flying J are scumbugs" and blah blah blah. Funny how I stop at Flying J's. I think CAD should add "coolie" to the swear list so it shows up in different symbols. Its old and we get it.

Never work Bandit. Besides, you skim over the posts without realizing that the "scumbag" reference was aimed directly at the coolie carriers. I stop at the Flying J on occasion. You are either trying to take take literary license with the posts, or you don't understand them.

1/4 the paycheck. I have to admit that it made me chuckle. It would be arrogant and humorous............but since it is not based on fact, it kinda falls flat. Nice one though.

Ironically, I did find it rather arrogant of Koolnajj to be sitting in the red hot box, collecting all of that rather generous Crete layover pay while showing his intelligentsia here, while sweating it out in a puddle of piss, probably at the Carney Point FLYING J. Is that why he is always in such a good mood? Hell, Tom Clancy just might opt to write his next novel in a Crete red hot box for the kind of money that Crete pays for hoboing around for the weekend at the Carney Point hook. What a deal!! Where do I sign up?

Sirius 80's Channel is on. I would like to dedicate this song to Koolnajj, hoboing around a filthy truck stop somewhere(s)......................

I'm livin in a box
I'm livin in a cardboard box
I'm livin in a box
I'm livin in a cardboard box FOR FREE

OK sports fans. Time for this coolie to head out and deliver some gasoline and pick up my 1/4 paycheck. Be back tonight. XOXOXOXO

Oh yes, to all of you big money OTR types. Why the fascination with the 1/2 paycheck statement? How about some comments on Big Jeep on 44's statement?

[BanditsCousin]

Chuckle all you want. You don't know what I make. I had a week where I cleared 10 grand. So, if you made 2500 that week we both did good.

[BanditsCousin]

Read the OP's first post. Then read 2 pages of "otr guys at the Flying J are scumbugs" and blah blah blah. Funny how I stop at Flying J's. I think CAD should add "coolie" to the swear list so it shows up in different symbols. Its old and we get it.

Never work Bandit. Besides, you skim over the posts without realizing that the "scumbag" reference was aimed directly at the coolie carriers. I stop at the Flying J on occasion. You are either trying to take take literary license with the posts, or you don't understand them.

1/4 the paycheck. I have to admit that it made me chuckle. It would be arrogant and humorous............but since it is not based on fact, it kinda falls flat. Nice one though.

Ironically, I did find it rather arrogant of Koolnajj to be sitting in the red hot box, collecting all of that rather generous Crete layover pay while showing his intelligentsia here, while sweating it out in a puddle of piss, probably at the Carney Point FLYING J. Is that why he is always in such a good mood? Hell, Tom Clancy just might opt to write his next novel in a Crete red hot box for the kind of money that Crete pays for hoboing around for the weekend at the Carney Point hook. What a deal!! Where do I sign up?

Sirius 80's Channel is on. I would like to dedicate this song to Koolnajj, hoboing around a filthy truck stop somewhere(s)......................

I'm livin in a box
I'm livin in a cardboard box
I'm livin in a box
I'm livin in a cardboard box FOR FREE

OK sports fans. Time for this coolie to head out and deliver some gasoline and pick up my 1/4 paycheck. Be back tonight. XOXOXOXO

Oh yes, to all of you big money OTR types. Why the fascination with the 1/2 paycheck statement? How about some comments on Big Jeep on 44's statement?

I take offense to generalizing that or drivers are toothless, smelly people with nothing better to do than sit and watch TV in a Flying J lounge. And no, I read this whole thread top to bottom.

And Jeeps comments? I don't know what to say? Buy a truck and lease somewhere worthwhile? I got motel reciepts. Life is full of choices. Like i said before, I won't post 95TealKW's #'s, because too many people would call B.S. on that too.

[Mackman]

Who is sleeping with your wife while you spend weeks at a time sleeping in urine drenched parking lots wishing the company you drive for would buy APUs, Karnajj?

JayB you have really shown what a lowlife SOB you really are. Needless to say if you and I were in the same place at the same time you would be nothing but a bloody pile of $&!+ on the floor. If I get banned for saying that tough $&!+, it needed to be said.

Better look out Jay B we got a CB RAMBO. I bet you are scared.