I've got a beef with "morons" in truck stops!
#11
06-11-2008, 08:46 AM
Please don't get me wrong-- I agree 100% about A-holes that are not considerate of other's and do this sort of crap-- yet, just the other day at Pilot Carlisle,Pa I was scaling a load on the CAT scale-- that was it! so instead of circling back around that whole cluster-frack of parking lot-- I pulled off the scale (ahead) and ran in to grab the ticket-- which I then ran into one of the before stated lines at the counter. When I got my ticket and went back to the truck-- there was a Crete driver setting on the scale-- cussing me out-- for not parking-- and holding him up!-- then as I was leaving--- he did the very exact damn thing! This is my only gripe-- when people complain just because someone's holding them up-- just to do the exact same thing themselves-- I've seen it 100's of times-- the gripes and complains-- then goes ahead and shops & grabs some food( sometimes not even to go) right after complaining about the guy ahead.
#12
06-11-2008, 09:00 AM
Very true, practice what you preach. If it's an empty truck stop, I will park before running in (and I mean running) but if it's late and packed, I am not fighting for a parking spot that I may take from a guy who NEEDS it because he is out of hours if I am just running in and out. I will pull up, run in, take a leak, grab my ticket and roll.
Showering, eating, buying hookers, and so on however, that requires a parking spot lol.
#13
06-11-2008, 10:21 AM
Thanks for the stroll down memory lane....
If a psychology major would observe a truck stop for 24 hrs, they would quickly deduce that there are 2-kinds of truckers: those with brains and those wiithout! :lol: There ain't no inbetween! When I was OTR'ing, I pulled up out of the pump area after fueling, did my business as quick as I could, and was on my way before the guy behind me was finished fueling 99% of the time (Granted this was where you could pull up after fueling).
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#14
06-11-2008, 10:49 AM
Originally Posted by BigWheels
(Granted this was where you could pull up after fueling).
#17
06-11-2008, 11:57 AM
the card readers at the pump- if they are working usually only take the major fleet fueling cards--
comdata t-check tic-check EFS TCH and this is just a recent new development in the Trucking Industry-- about 6 years??- I can remember a time before card readers at the pump-- everyone had to go inside and stand in line-- just to get the pump turned on. I also remember the time before satellite fuel pumps were around-- you had to slide that long hose across or under the truck and fill one tank at a time.
#18
06-11-2008, 12:03 PM
Originally Posted by slodsm
Originally Posted by Syncrosonix
too many out there think it's nascar 24/7 and that it's a freaking race to get down that 6, 7, or 8 1/2% grade. i also have a problem with people who cannot shower on a regular basis. if i can smell a person from 5ft away, there's a serious problem. I have been late once for a drop this year, ONCE, and it was dispatched at 53 mph going from San Fransisco to Calexico in a castrated Volvo with 79k. OK, like THAT'S going to make it over grapevine at anything more than 15 mph and I am not about to race down the backside to make up for it. In all the other loads I have delivered, I have yet to be dispatched so tight I couldn't shower every other day if not every day. Why in the HELL would you want to smell that damn bad? Seriously? I find myself to be offensive when I have been more than 36 hours without a shower so I know those guys have to smell themselves. Hell I was in a truck when I was training with a guy who didn't shower often, my clothes stunk from sitting in his drivers seat that was infested with his BO? WTF is that about? Other than those two gripes though, (I really hate getting blown off the road going down a 6% grade by someone), I still enjoy this job. the thought of him rear-ending me was starting to freak me out and i wasn't gonna speed up for anybody. especially with hazardous cargo. other drivers out there who tailgate the hazmat haulers are total idiots and shouldn't have a license. that goes for the truckers as well who feel the need to do that as well. better yet, they need to get the hell out of the gene pool. i won't tolerate that kind of stupid behavior. i'll ask politely for the driver to give me room, or pass. if there's no answer, or i get a smart-ass answer back, the stupidity continues, then it's to the hands-free device i go and calling dot immediately. on flat surfaces, i don't mind that much. going down mountains is another situation altogether and there's no excuse for the lack of common sense. it's simple: pass me if you're going faster than i. i haven't ever smoked my brakes and don't plan on it. as for the showering part, the longest i've gone was 2 days. i was going absolutely bonkers by the 40th hour. i had been bathing myself with napkins soaked with water. i left my hair alone. man, it was a greasy mess! i felt ashamed of myself. when i was gonna be passing a flying j, i made damn well sure to stop by there to take care of business. if i stink, somebody had better tell me so that i can handle it. i hate being stinky. i hate it even more when i have to speak with a pretty lady in shipping & receiving at a warehouse or department store. i also hate having dragon breath. i'll eat a few cinnamon altoids to take care of that, brush my teeth, or both. as for the dirt lot with making all kinds of dust. i've been guilty of that, but i was the ONLY one in there and didn't realize how soft the dirt actually was. it was the dirt field next to the loves in coachella/indio, along i-10. there was no wind and all people could see was one giant cloud of dirt.  ops:
#19
06-11-2008, 12:18 PM
Originally Posted by rodcannon
Do I understand correctly that truck drivers can't pay at the pump with the company credit card the way 4-wheelers can do at regular gas stations?
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