Solo

I'm getting ready to go solo next week and I'm trying to gather a list of things I'll need, I have pretty much everything except the list of lies I need to tell to hold a convo with the other truckers in the drivers lounge at the truck stops!lol how do those guys come up eith those outlandish stories?

Dejuan, you are so right about that - I literally used to have to get up and leave because I'd want to call em out for lying so crazily. Now, I just smile and realize this is just part of the crazy truck driver culture. I don't have to be like most drivers, and I guess it's too obvious that I'm not - I was at the "Spaceway" truck stop in Mississippi last week eating in their restaurant and the waitress asked me what my name was. I told her, but thought it a little odd that she would be asking me my name. Then she says "you live around here don't you? I recognize you from eating in here before." When I told her no, but I have been in here several times - I'm a driver. She was shocked - she must have said "I never would have taken you for a driver" at least four times in the next five minutes of our conversation.

I get a kick out of some of the tall tales that get told in those T.V. lounges and at the counters in the truck stop cafes.

Dejuan, you are so right about that - I literally used to have to get up and leave because I'd want to call em out for lying so crazily. Now, I just smile and realize this is just part of the crazy truck driver culture. I don't have to be like most drivers, and I guess it's too obvious that I'm not - I was at the "Spaceway" truck stop in Mississippi last week eating in their restaurant and the waitress asked me what my name was. I told her, but thought it a little odd that she would be asking me my name. Then she says "you live around here don't you? I recognize you from eating in here before." When I told her no, but I have been in here several times - I'm a driver. She was shocked - she must have said "I never would have taken you for a driver" at least four times in the next five minutes of our conversation.

I get a kick out of some of the tall tales that get told in those T.V. lounges and at the counters in the truck stop cafes.

Haha yeah man I hear people say crap like they went down a 30% grade with 78,000lbs going 80mph with no jakes with no problem!

I've heard lots of stuff this past year. I just smile inside and walk away. Not my thing. Old School I can relate. I wish I had a nickel for all the times I have been told I'm not the normal driver. I guess my prior proffesdion still is dominant. lol.