still truckin....

[truckerplp]

Hi here I am again...

I'm a great conversationalist, books, movies, and computers being some of my favorite subjects. I love to talk about almost anything you can think of, but I'm a great listener, too. Some say there's just not enough of that. I plan to be on my own farm in the near future. I'm a simple and natural kinda guy.. I like to be creative and have gotten back into leathercraft. I drive a truck most of the time and stay out for weeks on end. My bike is the one thing I have to come home to. I would like to get more out of life, and I know that there is someone out there for me. I have a great sense of humor and am very open- minded when it comes to most things, so I hope one of you ladies will take a chance with me. How do you know what you really want from life? I try to experience all the beauty it has to offer as I drive, and take each day as it comes along. I'm an honest kind of guy and hope to get that in return. Women have told me I have great eyes, a loveable nature and a debonair voice. I'm not bad looking either! So take a chance with me! if we don't click, we can still be great friends.
So PM me sometime ok?

 

[rydia57]

Hey,

Welcome to the open road truckerplp...

 

[rydia57]

Hi,

Just giving you a bump would love to hear more of your on the road stories!
Later,
El

 

[truckerplp]

Hi,

Just giving you a bump would love to hear more of your on the road stories!
Later,
El

One night, I'm coming through a construction zone where the lanes are so narrow that I can not wobble more than 2 inches, literally, or I will side swipe the cars running next to me. As the car on my left finally excellerates away, I realize that the young lady in the passenger seat has got the dome light on, her feet on the dash, her skirt around her waist and she had her fingers in the place. She had been putting on show for and I couldn't watch it. Is that the kinda story you mean?

 

[bamagirl]

Sounds like you lead a interesting life anyway

 

[rydia57]

that's the kind!

Hi,


I agree with Bama Girl... you definitely have an interesting life...more!
Later,

El

 

[truckerplp]

Among long haul drivers, we say that it's not a job, it's a lifestyle. Imagine reducing your house to the floor space of a king-size waterbed. That's what most of us have. I have gotten so accustomed to it that when I go home, I sleep in my truck. When I sleep in a normal bed, it's level, and there is so much space around me. Some thing we all like about sleeping in a normal bed is that we don't have to get dressed and go outside to go in the building to use the bathroom, ( In the old days, they used to do this to go to the out house ), and after a shower, we can just walk out of the room without freaking,( or grossing, depending on the build of the trucker ) out. Imagine every time you take a shower, you walk into your bathroom with a change of clothes and bag with all your toiletries. When you get ready to leave the room, you have to be fully dressed and have your bag back together. I have a long beard and last winter on one of those really cold days, I took a shower and when I was walking out to the truck, I was only one hundred feet from the building when I noticed that all the water in my beard was frozen.

 

[rydia57]

Mmmmm I love the way your stories make me soooo.... smooshy!
Why don't you bump me sometime trucker? Bump me realllly hard! I'd like it, I PROMISE! Then we can go knock ourselves out playing Tetris Attack and Donkey Kong...
Later,
El

 

[rydia57]

bump....

Hey, thanks for the "ride" ....

 

[truckerplp]

Re: bump....

Hey, thanks for the "ride" ....

It was my pleasure, catchya on the flip side.

 

[babydoll2u]

Hi Trucker...
I guess I'd like to add myself to your small list of "fans" here. Loved your stories above... would love to hear more.

 

[LorriLove]

Hi here I am again...

I'm a great conversationalist, books, movies, and computers being some of my favorite subjects. I love to talk about almost anything you can think of, but I'm a great listener, too. Some say there's just not enough of that. I plan to be on my own farm in the near future. I'm a simple and natural kinda guy.. I like to be creative and have gotten back into leathercraft. I drive a truck most of the time and stay out for weeks on end. My bike is the one thing I have to come home to. I would like to get more out of life, and I know that there is someone out there for me. I have a great sense of humor and am very open- minded when it comes to most things, so I hope one of you ladies will take a chance with me. How do you know what you really want from life? I try to experience all the beauty it has to offer as I drive, and take each day as it comes along. I'm an honest kind of guy and hope to get that in return. Women have told me I have great eyes, a loveable nature and a debonair voice. I'm not bad looking either! So take a chance with me! if we don't click, we can still be great friends.
So PM me sometime ok?

if you ever get a real long haul to uk let me know honey... i'll park alongside your rig and put on a show for you... you might even persuade me to try your bunk bed for size

 

[truckerplp]

We all have those trips where nothing goes as well as it could. My first was my second trip on the way to get my first assigned truck. I lived in St Louis, Mo and had teamed with this other driver to go to my truck near Youngstown OH. The other guys name was Terry. We got his load up to York, PA. It was a load of car batteries. We had run all night so we slept while they unloaded our trailer. Our next load assignment picked up in Fairfield PA. This was about 9am and the load delivered in Columbus OH, 4:30pm the same day. We didn't know exactly how many miles we had to cover, but we knew it wasn't a lot of time to do it. We hit the map book, (this was before I had a laptop and this wonderful mapping software) and the only Fairfield PA it listed was up by Erie PA. That was about 300 miles away. We really didn't have much time to pull this off now. I drove as Terry, who had only been over-the-road himself a month, stuck his head in the map book to plan a route. We knew we had to head north, so I hit north bound I-83. At Terry's suggestion, I went west on I-81 and north on 11/15. As I'm turning on to this highway, I see this big sign with a lot of small letters and got to read 96" and 102". In about 15 miles, I learned that the sign had said something about the road had restriction of trailers being only 96" wide. Not 102" like mine. We were moving right along, running beside a river, when I noticed that there were a lot of Big Trucks running on the other side of the river. I said, " Look at all those trucks over there, Terry. Think they know something we don't?" He said, "Maybe, but this is going pretty good so let's keep going."

We entered Duncannon PA. Half way through town, a chubby cop steps out in my lane, points at me and points at the wide spot on the side of the road where his and a couple other official cars are parked. I parked and shut the truck down. Terry was freaking. The officer told me about the restriction and seems it was a $360 education to read the signs more completely. A D.O.T. (Department of Transportation) officer was going over my truck and trailer while I continued conversing with the cop. He was actually pretty cool about the whole thing and I felt like things weren't gonna go to badly. Terry wanted to know if we should turn around and go back. I asked the officer, who said that I was halfway through town and might as well keep going. The comedian in me came out and I pointed up the hill to some houses and commented that maybe I could have gone up through the residential area and avoided this stretch of road. He smiled and said no, there was a 5 ton bridge up there and that would have been a $10,000 ticket.

After we were finally on our way again, we got up on I-80. Terry was feeling bad about my ticket and I just figured it was one more bill I had to pay. The first rest area I came to I pulled in. While I used the facilities, Terry called the shipper that had the load to get directions. When I came back, he said he had bad news. He had called four times to get the different recordings of directions. Each had mentioned coming from the north. I knew the only thing north of our Fairfield was Lake Erie. We called dispatch. Turns out that PA has three Fairfields. The one we were supposed to be going to was only 60 miles from York. We were now 200 miles from where we started. Dispatch gave us a route back, which put us right back through Duncannon. We didn't go back through that town but the routing got me out of paying the ticket I got. When I hit highway 30, per the route, I had to pass through Gettysburg. While it's a historically significant town, it's no fun in a Big Truck. I came into the town square. I thought that if you came in on one side, went out the opposite. I did a couple of those turns where you steer tire is on one sidewalk and the trailer tire is on the opposite sidewalk. I was going down a road that I thought was 30 when I see a sign saying that the road I was on had a 5 ton weight limit. Terry woke up from his nap and hit the map book to see where I was. I got lucky and saw traffic a block to my left. We got loaded at the time that we were supposed to be delivering.

Our routing had us continuing west on 30. Our truck is 13'6". We were on a two lane, one way road when we came up to an arched bridge that was 13'4". I parked on the side. We got out and did some measuring and decided that if we centered the bridge, we could make it. Terry stood outside and watched as I idled through. He said it looked like I cleared by an inch. I was looking at all the marks on the bottom of the bridge where other trucks had scraped along the whole length. We had a line of cars behind us but we made it and didn't have to back down the one way street.

We had a nine speed transmission. We hit an uphill grade. The sun was down so I didn't see how far up it went. I started downshifting. It's no big deal to down shift one or two gears, I downshifted about 6 times. I told Terry that I didn't care what the speed limit was on the other side of the mountain, we were going down in first gear since we had a really heavy load. We finally got back to the interstate and got me to my truck. It was really late and we both went to bed for the night.

 

[truckerplp]

Hi Trucker...
I guess I'd like to add myself to your small list of "fans" here. Loved your stories above... would love to hear more.

Thanks Babydoll, I'll keep putting up different experiences from over the years if you're really enjoying them.

 

[truckerplp]

Re: Re: still truckin....

if you ever get a real long haul to uk let me know honey... i'll park alongside your rig and put on a show for you... you might even persuade me to try your bunk bed for size

Thanks Lorri. If I ever get to the UK, and it is something I'd like to do, I would like a tour guide who can show me the stuff that the average tour guide won't show me. You could definitely show some interesting extra features, huh?

 

[Perry Pogue]

One time, while I was training new drivers, there was an accident ahead and we couldn't get around it. I had two functional laptops in the truck at the time, so while we had to sit, I set up a network and we shot at each other for about 2 hours. It was a great way to pass the time. When I saw traffic starting to move about half a mile ahead, we broke every thing down and got back in motion.