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First you made it all about how some jackwagon assumed you, a female, needed help with your landing gear (that is the title of your post, you know), and how upset you were that he, a male, put his hands on your truck. Then, when it was correctly pointed out that some people just like to help with no underlying motive, you made it about the fact that he recognized you in some perceived creepy way. Big deal.

Well, which is it?

If you have a problem with men, or with men helping you, that's your business and totally acceptable. But human nature should be to help each other out, and I'm not going to stop doing that, even if it offends some people.

Meanwhile, on the subject of social media combined with the book, 1984:

...What Orwell failed to predict was that we'd buy the cameras ourselves, and that our biggest fear would be that nobody was watching.

🤔

That's powerful.

Yo T-11, what's up man! It's been a minute! Great to hear from you. You still skateboarding?

Our collective lack of care of your opinion doesn't change either.

Ryan tries to nitpick:

But, this doesn't mean that a driver shouldn't have an idea as to how far in the direction of one's destination a driver can go

I never said that, or anything like it. You should pay closer attention to the context in which I spoke.

I don't disagree with you, but I do think that you are not being intellectually honest in responding to the idea of planning a place to park at the beginning of one's trip.

That's because I wasn't responding to that at all. I was however responding to the notion that anyone who doesn't plan a place to park is a failure.

Try to keep up.

I agreed with everything you said.....until this:

To me the thought of starting a shift without knowing where and when I'm going to stop and how far I'm going to drive is a failure.

In my very successful OTR career, I almost never knew where I was going to park at the end of the day, or how far I would drive. There were far too many variables in my day for me to plan 14 hours ahead. Locking myself into a predetermined parking spot could cost me miles and productivity.

Rather, I'd do the best I could until just a couple hours before my shift ended. Then I would look ahead and map out a plan for where to park the truck. And I never had to park on a ramp.

The only exception is when I knew I'd make it to a customer's location for the night. Then it would just make more sense to stay there. Otherwise, I'm grabbing all the miles I can until it's time to start thinking of where to park.

Empty trailers were the product...does that count?

This wasn't my first week, but I was a rookie nonetheless...

Locked in

Difficult to snare, this one.

Old School sighting

But you didn't hit anything. That's a win.