Folks, here of late it seems that the moron brigade has expanded.... It would seem that nearly every time I go into a truck stop to fuel.... there is some inconsiderate jackass parking his or her truck on the fuel island ....like its their personal parking place. Get your fuel....then get off the fuel island. You are not the only person on the planet. Be a little considerate and park the truck in a parking spot. If you are using transflo scanning and have a bundle of stuff to be scanned....park it in a parking spot, then go do it. Also, don't park on the fuel island and go take a shower, eat lunch, wander off chasing bees or smelling the daisies. Have a little consideration for your fellow drivers!

Also...truck stop parking lots are not NASCAR ovals....move through them slowly. It seems that alot of drivers think they are needing to race in parking lots. Its not "cool", its stupid and dangerous. It would be a real bummer to have to fill out all the paperwork and tell safety your little "story" how you tore up your truck or someone else's while "truckin" through the parking lot. Oh, yeah....if its a dirt or gravel lot....the objective is to see just how little dust you can create....NOT how much.

Act like a "grownup"...not some adolescent "puss-brain".

Remember...."Stupid is as Stupid does"!!

 

Unless, of course, you're at a PILOT... Then, the fuel island is the only available spot to park.

Most "REAL" truck stops have place you can park after you fuel. And, the exercise won't hurt you a bit, either.

 

Sometimes you go in for something that should only take 2 minutes like get your fuel receipt and scan a couple pages and you stroll in the door and there's 10 people in line because there's 1 cashier trying to take care of all the truck drivers fueling, cars fueling and everybody else walking in the door, so you stand in line for 10 minutes. Meanwhile the guy behind you on the fuel island is flipping out because he thinks you're taking a shower or something. This is definitely an issue but once in a while it's not done on purpose. This happens a lot at Pilot. Every time it seems you walk in the door and have to wait in line. They never have enough cashiers. You go in the bathroom and they never have soap and paper towels at the same time. They have one or the other but not both for some reason. I'm really beginning to hate Pilot. And WTF is up with $2 a page for sending or receiving faxes ? Big time gouging with that.

Anyways, I couldn't agree with you more about how fast drivers go through the parking lot. It really is sickening. Unfortunately these drivers won't change until they're sitting in jail for running somebody over by accident because they were driving reckless through a parking lot. :?

 

my latest is the lazy morons that can't park their truck....was at a ta west of denver last week and looked up on my way to take a shower and there was a kllm truck parked of crooked in a pull through ....in fact so crooked that she took up three spots....i'm thinking maybe the driver had a personal emergency and will come back and fix it ....when i left 11 hours later she was still in the drivers seat playing on her computer and still taking up three not two spots an unforgivable offense in my book

i'm thinking if she couldn't pull through straight what the hell would happen if she ever figured out how to put the truck in reverse

 

Every time I have been to that TA everyone just makes up their own rules.

 

How about getting a life-size doll, dress it up like a driver and pitch it out in front of a truck speeding through the parking area?

 

i have the same problems with morons like the ones skywalker has mentioned. it never fails that the dude i pull in behind at the fuel island, is messing around inside. i've been tempted to ask some of the fuel island cashiers if i can get on the p/a and say what's on my mind abotu those special cases. i'm sure it'll turn many heads. i'm also certain that many inside of there will nod in agreement and probably offer to buy me a beer since i become so high strung at times. i'll have to decline the beer offer.

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 take those slow without having to hit my brakes for any reason other than some tard cutting me off. yeah, truck stops with the mini-nascar ovals going on, especially during the night time and many plow through the lots without their headlights turned on.

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've sometimes let people cut in front of me just so i didn't have to be near that smelly bastard.

tk, pilot just plain sucks. i've also been behind that one driver who did their thing and got stuck in line. at pilot, i figured that out after my first time ever being at one to refuel. i'll wait patiently to pull forward. the pilot in ogden, utah is a royal piece of work. after weighing on the cat scale, there's really no place to park afterwards. just pull forward, set the tractor brakes, and walk/run inside. hopefully the line isn't TOO long. the pilot in springdale, arkansas is quite crappy as well. i will NEVER stop in there unless i really, really, really, really, really have to for some reason.

 

Those are my two greatest pet peeves.

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.

 

i can stretch to 2 days without a shower, depending on how i run and where i am.
into my 3rd day my skin starts to itch

 

And if these issues aren't enough ... I've had people scoop off the lug covers while parked, and going inside to get my advance. Was up north of Augusta, ME .. went in to get my advance at the local Pilot, snag a quick soda .. came out, lug covers removed on the passenger side. Didn't even touch the driver side. What kinda fool takes someone's lug covers on just one side of the vehicle? For that matter, what kind of fool takes those things at all?