Comments By Plumcrazy Preston

Are local driving positions with carriers tougher to get than OTR positions? What is the typical work schedule of a LOCAL driver? What is the greatest distance from home traveled on the job for a LOCAL driver? Are there plenty of good Local Driving opportunities in Texas right now?

Rob T:

Hoping to achieve something here?

I certainly don't get paid any money to type here. I just had too much time on my hands to burn, that's all. Winter cabin fever. I would otherwise be working on my plastic model kits, I have an AMT Kenworth W-925 tractor model under construction now, but the cold weather has me delayed on that. I can't comfortably open my windows in this chill to vent out the plastic cement fumes and the paint fumes with my fan. I have to watch this winter heating bill too. Too cold and snowy to spray paint outside also. I probably won't be creating a new thread here for at least a month.

Apparently enough drivers here have enough free time on their hands to post stuff here too. The Big Chill might have some of you folks holed up for a while.

The chronic Trolling has yet to be cured, though...

Bah!!

It's been a while so I thought I'd pay a visit here. Not much of a warm reception though. I don't make enough frequent new threads to be dubbed trolling material.

I just finished watching that 1979 made-for-TV film Willa last night about the young mother who drives trucks. I have nothing against women who drive for a living provided this is not a detriment to the proper raising of children. A semi's cab is simply no place for little babies.

Women naturally have babies. Women naturally feed babies. Men do neither of these things. This is why there has been a long-established division of labor between the sexes. There is no place for a mother with a baby in arms, or inside the womb, behind the wheel of a semi truck, inside an army tank or even at a fire house. It's not the proper environment for child raising. Women with young ones, in or out of the womb, should place child well-being above personal/feminist selfishness. Concern for child welfare is not sexist.

I actually agree with you; for the most part, to a point, and it's only IMHO. I've had my permit and driven w/the husband a couple summers, when our kids were 10 and 14, at home, with aunt and uncle AND my B.I.L. living next door. They still do. Never did take the leap; stayed home to take care of the kids.

The youngest is NOW 17, and my plan is to go back 'out there' next year, when he ages up.. Daughter is already going to college and working, and has her own place with 2 buddies. I've offered to 'flip' places w/the hubby, to his resounding "No thanks!" << of course!

I don't believe Kearsey HAS kids. (You're welcome for the link.)

Re: fire extinguishers; HAD to go out & check the rig before hubby left. It's a KIDDE brand, from Grainger ISC. Dunno how you got 'WalMart' ... ?!?!

Peace~!

~ Anne ~

I equate "Walmart" with cheaply-made products regardless of the brand name printed on the box.

Walmart-grade = inferior

Oh, and Walmart actually does sell fire extinguishers. I can't attest to product quality in that regard though. I can attest to a lot of damaged food items on Walmart shelves I've observed however. Cans of Campbell's soup with rust on the can tops. Many dented cans. Soiled milk containers. Spoiled produce.

I just finished watching that 1979 made-for-TV film Willa last night about the young mother who drives trucks. I have nothing against women who drive for a living provided this is not a detriment to the proper raising of children. A semi's cab is simply no place for little babies.

Women naturally have babies. Women naturally feed babies. Men do neither of these things. This is why there has been a long-established division of labor between the sexes. There is no place for a mother with a baby in arms, or inside the womb, behind the wheel of a semi truck, inside an army tank or even at a fire house. It's not the proper environment for child raising. Women with young ones, in or out of the womb, should place child well-being above personal/feminist selfishness. Concern for child welfare is not sexist.

I actually agree with you; for the most part, to a point, and it's only IMHO. I've had my permit and driven w/the husband a couple summers, when our kids were 10 and 14, at home, with aunt and uncle AND my B.I.L. living next door. They still do. Never did take the leap; stayed home to take care of the kids.

The youngest is NOW 17, and my plan is to go back 'out there' next year, when he ages up.. Daughter is already going to college and working, and has her own place with 2 buddies. I've offered to 'flip' places w/the hubby, to his resounding "No thanks!" << of course!

I don't believe Kearsey HAS kids. (You're welcome for the link.)

Re: fire extinguishers; HAD to go out & check the rig before hubby left. It's a KIDDE brand, from Grainger ISC. Dunno how you got 'WalMart' ... ?!?!

Peace~!

~ Anne ~

I equate "Walmart" with cheaply-made products regardless of the brand name printed on the box.

Walmart-grade = inferior

Picked this jockey term up from military service and the 1986 film, Top Gun. Goose thought about switching from F-14 Tomcat jets to more land-borne conveyances:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp6fiXarP5U

Is there really a telephone number to the "Truckmaster" driving school Goose was harping to Maverick about?

#11, we (he) sure do(es!) Every vehicle, every time.

#14, Read Davy's thread; he was NOT driving a semi at the time..and the 'crooked cops' hemmed him up {{{sarcasm}}} so he cannot drive a semi for a number of years, according to MOST desirable companies.

Speeding by Davy

being exposed to unsavory people: violent people, corrupt people, criminal people, mobsters, racketeers

Usually after I leave the yard I don't have this problem anymore.

Buy seriously I'm not in the mood to go line by line and answer each "negative" since it's a wasted effort on trolls. If anyone truly has these questions a 5 minute search of this site will debunk or answer them.

Maybe not number 8 though, hard to dispute a barber who used to eat at truck stops 35 years ago.

Same with my guy.. safe & fine upon departure. Daycabber just as B.Bob, but still have to stop to fuel & whatnot. Close to 20 years driving; nothing really to contend with.

ps: Regarding #8 , my dad would take me to the 'TRUCKSTOP DINERS' often, in my childhood days.. The prices and the regulars drew him in. We lived in NEW YORK at the time, too~

~ Anne ~

pps: The title of the thread 'threw' me.. I thought you were talking about 'Yard Jockeys.' Most truckers need experience before obtaining that position, with all the maneuvering, backing, and close quartering. Lots of the companies' equipment to 'destroy,' all in one place.

"jockey" = just a facetious term for any driver of a vehicle, like camel "jockey", fighter "jockey" and so forth

It's rather sad that I have accumulated many more minuses than pluses. Unfortunately, we are more apt to remember that bully that punched us in the nose at school than that nice lady in the school library who gave us a lollipop.

2 plusses against 14 minuses. Why are you here?

I really want to know what others think. I figure the "Raw Truth" can come from only those who have been there and done that. Those pluses and minuses are not what I cooked up myself: it's what I've been told or lead to believe by others. I really don't know whether any or all of those pluses or minuses are accurate fact or myth.