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"B_R_E_A_K___O_N_E_-_N_I_N_E_!"... Calling all Truckers!
CodeTRUCKER:
Thank you, Sire. I, too, know you. The infamous "Metallic Mandible."
lanux128:
For anyone that hasn't guessed it yet, Calvin used to be known as Farmsteader before his change of profession prompted a change of nickname on the forum.-mouser (December 11, 2007, 06:46 PM)
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ah! no wonder you sound so familiar, not to mention the large number of posts already under your belt for a new member. i should have clicked on the "posts" link.. anyway, welcome aboard, again.. Farmsteader i mean CodeTRUCKER. :)
Ralf Maximus:
Also, for the rest of you that have not driven a BIG TRUCK, you might wish to take this opportunity to have any questions you may have addressed.
-CodeTRUCKER (December 11, 2007, 06:24 PM)
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Is it true truckers can drink 93 octane and urinate diesel, can strip down and reassemble their rigs blind-folded, and have the entire US road atlas memorized?
Actually, I'd like to hear some amusing/scary/interesting trucker anecdotes. Of the "you wouldn't believe the things I've seen" variety.
Got any?
CWuestefeld:
I once drove a rig.
It was back in college, when I worked at the Baskin-Robbins Ice Cream factory (sometime when I'm not hijacking someone else's thread, I'll tell the story of the time I was buried knee-deep in pistachio ice cream). One of the jobs I held there was loading the outgoing trucks. We needed to get a now-full trailer out of the way to make room for the next one to fill. Which gets me to the time I drove an 18-wheeler.
The boss asked another worker to move the truck. I asked if I can come along. When we got to the truck, I asked the other guy if I could try moving it, and he said OK. He showed me how the shifter works, and off we went, clear over to the other side of the parking lot. I drove that truck a good hundred yards, but I don't think I ever got out of 1st gear, or turned the steering wheel at all.
BTW, what's the right terminology: rig, truck, 18-wheeler, etc.?
BigJim:
BTW, what's the right terminology: rig, truck, 18-wheeler, etc.?
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They all work. Try to avoid the likes of "killer trucks" and such, though.
As for the hundred yards ... you gotta start somewhere! ;)
("A trip of a thousand miles ..." and all that)
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