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Originally Posted by briar rabbit
Steph83 my wife runs with me and she is a verry attractive lady. Best advice I can give is turn your radio off when you go to truckstops or will husband will prob. be in jail or worse.People in this buisness can be extremely disrespectful so save yourself the headache and turn it off.Truckers have a bad name and its sad to say but the government hands out money to retired criminals and low income for free cdl school so always assume there are lots of unsavory ppl where you park.They should do more screening who they train and less of our log books.
I have to take issue with your assessment that the industry is full of “retired criminals and [GASP] low income” individuals that are recruited en masse and offered free CDL schooling. If this is true, just where do all these serious criminals and, God forbid, low income folks go to put their free CDLs to use? None of the big carriers (which are pretty much the trainee’s only option) will hire trainees who are recent felons. Many of the big carriers have a “no felonies in the last ten or fifteen years policy”, and some even have a “no felonies ever” policy. Also, I’m curious about this correlation you’ve invented between folks who come from modest financial means and the likelihood that after they obtain a decent paying job they are likely to rape or rob other drivers.
I’ll agree about the trash that is prevalent on the CB. Mine broke two years ago and I never bothered replacing it until just recently when I bought my step-deck. I certainly never leave my radio on when I approach a truck stop, but none of that means I have ever felt threatened by another driver. Now the hookers and drug dealers that a very few drivers patronize are another story. Those criminals long with the homeless drug addicts and alcoholics that are drawn to the truck stops by the prospect of quick cash through panhandling or thievery are a completely different story.
You say truck drivers have a bad reputation, but that reputation isn’t for raping, robbing and pillaging. It’s because this new breed of non-driving trucker lacks any self-respect. They run over and damage private property (just look at the curbs and light poles in any Wal-Mart store or truck stop), leave bottles of urine on the ground wherever they go, throw trash on the ground and in general make a nuisance of themselves. That has little to do with whether or not they are likely to accost a woman walking through a parking lot. Frankly, I think most of them would be too lazy to get out of their truck and chase after a fleeing, fighting and screaming female… that would be way too much work and exercise. Now if they could hire a lumper to go chase the woman down, subdue her and bring her back to the truck… then maybe you’d have something to worry about.