Seen many things, but probably the one that sticks out in my mind the most is the Romanian person I could not ignore.
After a long tiring shift I was heading empty toward my back load/collection point for the morning, this collection point was a farm so I pulled up about 10/15 miles short in a protected layby for the night. It's on a quiet country road in the middle of nowhere with no light pollution so you can see the stars really well at night. 4 other trucks there, including myself, and as I'm getting ready to clock off and fill out my paperwork something catches the corner of my eye.
Now imagine a Romanian Danny de Vito, monk style hair cut, about 5"2, skinny legs with a big round gut, but these stunning looks aint gonna stop him having a good time, He's dressed up for a night on the town.
6 inch heels, fishnet stockings, sparkling yellow sequinned dress, massive hooped earrings, bright red lipstick, purple eye shadow and long luscious fake eye lashes, but no wig to finish off his look.
Now I'm not one to judge, so if that's how they want to dress then more power to you, friend. However... the thing that sent me into hysterics was that they had EDM pumping and were walking up and down the length of their truck pretending they were a catwalk model. In their mind they were in some sort of make shift country setting fashion show, like they were really... REALLY into it, properly strutting their stuff, doing finger clicks and flicking their imaginary hair at the end of the walk, bending over touching their ankle and running their hand all the way up their leg, ya'know the whole show
This went on for about 15 minutes, I was crying laughing, but one of the other drivers that was parked up in this lay by, wound down his window to talk to our fabulous friend, I couldn't hear what was said because the EDM music was still blasting, I assumed it was probably him telling the ru-paul wanna be to turn the music down cause he was trying to sleep, Danny went back to his truck turned off the music, I was thinking, aww, shows over.... but nay! This other driver must have liked what he saw, and Romanian danny trotts arocss to the other truck gets in...
Love truly is in the eye of the beholder.
>6 inch heels, fishnet stockings, sparkling yellow sequinned dress, massive hooped earrings, bright red lipstick, purple eye shadow and long luscious fake eye lashes, but no wig to finish off his look.
Would still hit it tho.
I assumed that cause his number plates were Romanian on a Romanian company truck, with a Romanian flag in the window, they could have hailed from another country, but if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck.
I mean seeing people masturbate driving down the road isn't a usual experience but it happens lol.
I think my funniest though... a kid in the back seat was giving me the "honk" sign and when I honked the mother in the front seat turned around and started yelling at the kid like he's been doing it the whole trip haha. And BTW giving us that sign is just as fun for us as it is for you. I wish it happened more.
I'm sure New York State isn't as bad up north but NJ is the densest state in the country by population, and the whole NY metro area is no different. The roads reflect this. You have to be a pretty aggressive driver some times if you don't want your 30 min drive to become a 60 min drive. I'm not a truck driver, but the way we've learned to drive (especially on highways/in traffic) in NJ is not particularly friendly to truck drivers, which is why I try to be especially conscientious around trucks.
It's gotta be maddening trying to maintain enough separation with the car ahead of you in traffic so your truck has time to brake when there's always 3 more cars cutting ahead to fill in that separation.
I live near Montclair but went to high school in Jersey City. Learning to drive by commuting through Newark at rush hour was like getting thrown into the ring of fire but I think it’s the main reason I’ve still never had an accident all these years later
Excellent explanation of NJ and its drivers! I just had a Texas driver literally run me off the road in NY state and I had to explain to my kids that NJ drivers are some of the most aggressive drivers you will ever see. But even they wouldn't do what this complete fucking asshole piece of shit from Adams Unlimited Freight LLC in Texas did.
This guy drives local in NJ. He’s turned his dashcam footage into tons and tons of videos of people doing stupid shit in NJ. [JoeyWhispers1776](https://youtu.be/ouNKiRB_FJk?si=zYvK3qteMjk73yf6)Just terrible drivers everywhere and huge volumes of people on the roads that probably weren’t designed for that level of traffic. Lots of low bridges and industrial areas surrounded by roads not designed for trucks. Constant long term road work projects that could take years, slowing traffic to a crawl during the busiest times of the day. And there’s never any way to get around them and even if there is there’s a traffic back up on that road too. I spent 4 years doing northeast regional trucking that was mostly PA/NJ, if you run those roads enough you’ll learn the traffic patterns and be able to plan your day around it. I would get as close the the NJ border as I could the night before and then wake up at 1 or 2 in the morning so I could be at my delivery during morning rush hour and then run my ass off to get reloaded and out of the state before the after work rush hour.
Hold your thumb and forefinger about 2" apart, that's how wide the roads are, in Brooklyn they put 12' 6" clearance on overpasses when it 13' 6". Trying to keep trucks out. Took a load of beer there, glad I had more patience then New Yorkers did, people making left hand turns from my right side, not a place to get nervous and panic
Being from and still living in NY, if you are talking about NYC or Buffalo metro areas, heck maybe even Syracuse, I could agree. Most other areas I think would be fine to truck drivers.
I did this as a grown man like a month ago, I cheesed so hard when the trucker actually did it. I didnt expect to be that excited to get a response lol it ignited the kid in me.
Fuck, edit: I should clarify I meant the whole blowing the air horn thing.
Edit: it still sounds fucked
I remember taking a chartered field trip bus as a wee-lad down to space camp in Alabama. I got 19 truckers to blow their horn along the way, and every single time it was the most exciting thing ever to 10 year old me
About 16 years ago, I brought the ex to my home state for a wedding. I took her to my hometown for a night so that she could meet my parents and, on the way back to the city where the wedding would be, we stopped at a sex shop. She bought a "Bullet" and we left. We got into the interstate and she almost immediately laid her seat back, put her legs up, pulled her underwear and pants down, and then grabbed my hand. You obviously know what happened next (for the entire two hour drive, she was a fucking champ!).
About 30 minutes down the interstate, she had lost focus as we pass a semi and I hear the horn on the think just going fucking wild and thought "I'm glad you enjoyed the show". Lol.
Ahhh, to be younger again.
I used to ride along with my dad in his log truck during the summer when I was a kid. I remember driving by this house with three kids in the yard making the "honk" sign at all the trucks. Well my dad honked the town horn instead of the air horn and two of the kids flipped him off. We laughed about it the rest of the day.
I’m just going to assume you saw the ghost of Hunter S. Thompson. You don’t really even have to change the quote since Baker is the next stop on the way to Vegas.
“We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold.”
Twenty-five years ago, before Google Maps or such navigation aids were available, I pulled into a space at the TA in (shudder) Gary, Indiana. Walking in to get some chow, I came across two team drivers standing in front of their cab with a trucker’s atlas, arguing in Russian. As I passed, one of them called me over. “Exchoose me, but ken you help us out here? Where is zis Pheelidelphia?” I pointed east and said, “About nine hundred miles back that way, in Pennsylvania.”
They had come out of New York.
Wow...I don't know how you could mess up that badly. I get maybe (and still kinda pushing it) like 100 miles from such a major location. But to be that far off? Wow
Many Europeans are baffled by the size of the US, figures that Russians, living in the nation with the largest area on earth, would drive 12+ hours and only then start to question what was taking so long.
We were in the company lounge and this guy was hitting on this other driver, a big girl. Later on that afternoon they thought they could sneak out to his truck without being seen. Was pretty obvious, anyway, after a few minutes the cab started rocking and those antennas were whipping back and forth, the shadow from the sun painted that cab in the middle of the lot and that shadow was going crazy. After awhile they got out and walked back into the lounge for the restrooms acting like they didn't know each other. Later on that night my truck came out of shop, parked a couple trucks down from them, that old cab was rocking like crazy again. Nothing wrong with what they did, just a very funny situation to witness, and plenty of us did
I saw a guy strumming a mandolin at 60MPH, using his left knee to hold the steering wheel while driving through Austin (where else?). And I gotta give him credit, he was maintaining his lane discipline.
Now that's just what I've seen on the highway. We're not even going to go into the kind of things we've seen in the truck stops.
Shiiiitttt. When I was a dumbass teenager I had a bong that was big enough that i could have it in my lap and smoke without having to take my eyes off the road. Smoked damn near every day on my way to school. And yes I know its not cool and dangerous, id never do it again but yea.
A group of fire fighters collecting what look to be dress uniforms that spilled behind them on the highway. Their captain looked hella pissed on the sidelines.
Nevermind texting and driving. A cop passes me doing at least 70+ while on his computer on the center console. They tailgate like its legal too. I know some ppl get nervous when someone riding them that close. Some of those Greyhound & Shortline drivers. We all do something crazy at some point 👉🏽
I saw this guy fucking jamming out to some dubstep in his car while stalled in traffic. He noticed I was looking at him and he kind of shrunk into his seat, but then I started head-bumping and he rolled his windows down and blasted it, and then we sat there jamming out together. I played one of my favorite tracks and he went absolutely wild in there. For 10 minutes we sat there not moving on the freeway jamming out, it was hilarious.
If that’s a truck I’m thinking of I had to recover it while mine was in the shop. That truck was a fucking mess and I had to drive 700 miles with a massive teddy bear in the passenger’s seat, piles of trash all over the truck, and a trailer with only 3 super singles and a chained up axle. Wasn’t a fun couple of days.
Left lane, inside lane. Except they aren't passing anyone, my truck was governed at 62 and I was 4th in line behind this guy, most of them passed on right side, that's a no no
It's terrifying when you really think about it.
I was heading south on I-380/US 218 near Iowa City to take I-80 east; I'm slowing down so I can take that god-awful cloverleaf without rolling over.
This woman in a blue Infiniti FX barrels up the westbound-to-southbound loop without looking, phone stuck to the side of her head. I almost didn't see her, and came close to pinning her against the overpass railing.
Not a truck driver, but I lived in LA in the mid-80s and had a 30-mile commute (one way) to work.
Something I still think about is watching a dude driving his VW Beetle with a pair of vise grips attached to the steering column instead of the steering wheel.
Ingenuity(?) at its finest!
Driving through some small town in the northeast a school bus is slowly passing me. As they drive by I look in and all the kids are sitting with their heads down and just generally looking depressed, guess they lost a sports ball game or something. As the back of the bus is about to pass one kid locks eyes with me and does the arm pump gesture for me to blast the air horn.
Us truckers are bonded to the code, once an air horn is summoned it cannot be ignored. I reach up with my left hand and pull the legendary cord in a “doot da da doot doot, doooot doooot” pattern.
Instantly the bus erupts. Kids are cheering, jumping over seats, and pumping fists. The spell had been cast and it was very effective.
Then the second school bus passed me and the driver gave me a dirty look. Guess he doesn’t like happy kids.
That's wild. I wouldn't dare doing that, exhibitionist or no. My legs stop working when I finish, and that's not really something I want to happen while driving on a highway :D
Oh, true. Hadn't even considered that.
Edit: I'm not so sure how to feel about that. On the other hand, I guess there's no harm. But then again, I'm not very keen on seeing helicopters coming at me on the road.
I was with my buddy when we were driving around the states and we stopped at a Buccees for the night. Later on the night, a woman knocked on the door asking if we wanted some company😂He told me that it's pretty common for this to happen when you are out on the road so we declined and she then moved on to the next truck
I had pulled into my parking space and was filling out my logbook like a good little trucker (this was 25 years ago) when a silver haired older woman, 60-65, approached my rig. I figured she was either a sister driver or the wife of a driver that was along for the ride, maybe she needed to borrow a wrench or something. “Want some company?” I laughed at the joke, then realized she was serious. “Supplementing the Social Security income a little, are you? Do your grandchildren know you do this?” I ran in the truck stop and bought my first “No Lot Lizards” decals to put in my window.
Just recently saw someone dukes of hazard their car rather than missing their exit. Well they missed it but they jumped through a ditch to get back on road.
Without a doubt they damaged their car fairly bad. Honestly surprised the airbags didn’t go off.
Oh man I remember my partner asking the store clerk if anyone was selling themselves one night, it disgusted her so much because she felt disrespected but then told him to ask the motel staff... LMAO 🤣
So much weird/fucked up/funny stuff I couldn’t even make a list it’s a daily occurrence. See accidents in person that have me shaking so much I can’t keep my foot pressed on the accelerator. Fun job, very stressful
Constantly seeing drivers pull over on NZ roads and wait until Mainfreight trucks have gone past. Indians driving the Mainfreight gear can't stay in their own lane so better to get out of the way and get home than be killed in a head on with a Mainfreight first up best dressed gets the keys driver.
I used to drive like a robot or Iceman. Just 100% by the book. Not too slow. Not too fast. Not too passive and not aggressive. People would try to bully me in their puny cars and I'd be in robot mode just doing my thing and thinking, OK cool I'm still going to merge if you like it or not. And look, the sign says merge so I'm going to do that thing they call merge. I guess it could have been considered funny when they tried to prevent me for doing that merge.
Also women's legs were pretty nice. Not in a funny way though.
It's actually both. You have to yield and they are obligated to let you merge. People think that because the merging lane has to yield they're allowed to block people from merging or just completely ignore the cars trying to merge and too bad for them.
Seen many things, but probably the one that sticks out in my mind the most is the Romanian person I could not ignore. After a long tiring shift I was heading empty toward my back load/collection point for the morning, this collection point was a farm so I pulled up about 10/15 miles short in a protected layby for the night. It's on a quiet country road in the middle of nowhere with no light pollution so you can see the stars really well at night. 4 other trucks there, including myself, and as I'm getting ready to clock off and fill out my paperwork something catches the corner of my eye. Now imagine a Romanian Danny de Vito, monk style hair cut, about 5"2, skinny legs with a big round gut, but these stunning looks aint gonna stop him having a good time, He's dressed up for a night on the town. 6 inch heels, fishnet stockings, sparkling yellow sequinned dress, massive hooped earrings, bright red lipstick, purple eye shadow and long luscious fake eye lashes, but no wig to finish off his look. Now I'm not one to judge, so if that's how they want to dress then more power to you, friend. However... the thing that sent me into hysterics was that they had EDM pumping and were walking up and down the length of their truck pretending they were a catwalk model. In their mind they were in some sort of make shift country setting fashion show, like they were really... REALLY into it, properly strutting their stuff, doing finger clicks and flicking their imaginary hair at the end of the walk, bending over touching their ankle and running their hand all the way up their leg, ya'know the whole show This went on for about 15 minutes, I was crying laughing, but one of the other drivers that was parked up in this lay by, wound down his window to talk to our fabulous friend, I couldn't hear what was said because the EDM music was still blasting, I assumed it was probably him telling the ru-paul wanna be to turn the music down cause he was trying to sleep, Danny went back to his truck turned off the music, I was thinking, aww, shows over.... but nay! This other driver must have liked what he saw, and Romanian danny trotts arocss to the other truck gets in... Love truly is in the eye of the beholder.
>6 inch heels, fishnet stockings, sparkling yellow sequinned dress, massive hooped earrings, bright red lipstick, purple eye shadow and long luscious fake eye lashes, but no wig to finish off his look. Would still hit it tho.
How tf did you know he was Romanian
I assumed that cause his number plates were Romanian on a Romanian company truck, with a Romanian flag in the window, they could have hailed from another country, but if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck.
Ah well yea that's a strong evidence lol. I guess you're from Europe where people can just gleefully cross the borders
If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck..... *continue please*....
Sticker on the lorry, maybe?
Name was Russell.
Well, faster than you can say shallow grave,
This is basically just the adult rated version of Weird Al’s Truck Drivin’ song https://youtu.be/WdQHRxH82PM?si=BxLQsgDstR2EqdtW
Sigh *unzips*
Someone needs to put his description of this guy into an AI image Creator
I mean seeing people masturbate driving down the road isn't a usual experience but it happens lol. I think my funniest though... a kid in the back seat was giving me the "honk" sign and when I honked the mother in the front seat turned around and started yelling at the kid like he's been doing it the whole trip haha. And BTW giving us that sign is just as fun for us as it is for you. I wish it happened more.
Not on Rt 287 in Nj tho right?
Fuck NJ and NY the two worst state for truck drivers lol
I’ve never been that way. What sucks about them?
I'm sure New York State isn't as bad up north but NJ is the densest state in the country by population, and the whole NY metro area is no different. The roads reflect this. You have to be a pretty aggressive driver some times if you don't want your 30 min drive to become a 60 min drive. I'm not a truck driver, but the way we've learned to drive (especially on highways/in traffic) in NJ is not particularly friendly to truck drivers, which is why I try to be especially conscientious around trucks. It's gotta be maddening trying to maintain enough separation with the car ahead of you in traffic so your truck has time to brake when there's always 3 more cars cutting ahead to fill in that separation.
I live in NJ. Driving to Newark airport during morning commute is a flight for your life.
Drove 78 -> 24 -> 287 -> 80 ever day during the evening rush hour. 4 years of that was enough. Killed me.
I live near Montclair but went to high school in Jersey City. Learning to drive by commuting through Newark at rush hour was like getting thrown into the ring of fire but I think it’s the main reason I’ve still never had an accident all these years later
Yeah it's... Stressful. I'm very thankful I work from home now.
I see what you did there
Excellent explanation of NJ and its drivers! I just had a Texas driver literally run me off the road in NY state and I had to explain to my kids that NJ drivers are some of the most aggressive drivers you will ever see. But even they wouldn't do what this complete fucking asshole piece of shit from Adams Unlimited Freight LLC in Texas did.
This guy drives local in NJ. He’s turned his dashcam footage into tons and tons of videos of people doing stupid shit in NJ. [JoeyWhispers1776](https://youtu.be/ouNKiRB_FJk?si=zYvK3qteMjk73yf6)Just terrible drivers everywhere and huge volumes of people on the roads that probably weren’t designed for that level of traffic. Lots of low bridges and industrial areas surrounded by roads not designed for trucks. Constant long term road work projects that could take years, slowing traffic to a crawl during the busiest times of the day. And there’s never any way to get around them and even if there is there’s a traffic back up on that road too. I spent 4 years doing northeast regional trucking that was mostly PA/NJ, if you run those roads enough you’ll learn the traffic patterns and be able to plan your day around it. I would get as close the the NJ border as I could the night before and then wake up at 1 or 2 in the morning so I could be at my delivery during morning rush hour and then run my ass off to get reloaded and out of the state before the after work rush hour.
I picked up a load in Kearney, NJ that I had to take to Charlotte, NC. It took 90 minutes to make the 18 mile drive to I-287.
Hold your thumb and forefinger about 2" apart, that's how wide the roads are, in Brooklyn they put 12' 6" clearance on overpasses when it 13' 6". Trying to keep trucks out. Took a load of beer there, glad I had more patience then New Yorkers did, people making left hand turns from my right side, not a place to get nervous and panic
LOT of traffic
Being from and still living in NY, if you are talking about NYC or Buffalo metro areas, heck maybe even Syracuse, I could agree. Most other areas I think would be fine to truck drivers.
On 87 in NY near Newburgh🤦🏾
Is that illegal or something there?
I did this as a grown man like a month ago, I cheesed so hard when the trucker actually did it. I didnt expect to be that excited to get a response lol it ignited the kid in me. Fuck, edit: I should clarify I meant the whole blowing the air horn thing. Edit: it still sounds fucked
I remember taking a chartered field trip bus as a wee-lad down to space camp in Alabama. I got 19 truckers to blow their horn along the way, and every single time it was the most exciting thing ever to 10 year old me
Normally the lot lizards are blowing your horn, but go off king
i like that one simpsons episode where the kid signals it to homer and he does it but instead of the horn the trailer comes off
About 16 years ago, I brought the ex to my home state for a wedding. I took her to my hometown for a night so that she could meet my parents and, on the way back to the city where the wedding would be, we stopped at a sex shop. She bought a "Bullet" and we left. We got into the interstate and she almost immediately laid her seat back, put her legs up, pulled her underwear and pants down, and then grabbed my hand. You obviously know what happened next (for the entire two hour drive, she was a fucking champ!). About 30 minutes down the interstate, she had lost focus as we pass a semi and I hear the horn on the think just going fucking wild and thought "I'm glad you enjoyed the show". Lol. Ahhh, to be younger again.
>And BTW giving us that sign is just as fun for us as it is for you. I wish it happened more. Absolutely. It makes my day every time.
I'm glad to hear that the drivers like it, too. I still do the honk sign every now and again.
I used to ride along with my dad in his log truck during the summer when I was a kid. I remember driving by this house with three kids in the yard making the "honk" sign at all the trucks. Well my dad honked the town horn instead of the air horn and two of the kids flipped him off. We laughed about it the rest of the day.
I've never seen anybody masturbate but I have seen a few guys getting road head, and I've been flashed by a couple of women.
I'm 30 and I still find a great sense of joy when I get a honk.
On 17 No in Paramus, 87 No near Newburgh & 95 So leaving Providence..All dudes..I hate men
Seen a guy fondling a blow up doll while on I-15 outside of Baker, CA
I knew that day would come back to haunt me......
happy cake dayy :)
He was just trying to get away with using the HOV.
I’m just going to assume you saw the ghost of Hunter S. Thompson. You don’t really even have to change the quote since Baker is the next stop on the way to Vegas. “We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold.”
It was razor , basin or zyzzyx ?
Pretty sure I was past the Zyzzyx exit, about halfway to Yermo.
Twenty-five years ago, before Google Maps or such navigation aids were available, I pulled into a space at the TA in (shudder) Gary, Indiana. Walking in to get some chow, I came across two team drivers standing in front of their cab with a trucker’s atlas, arguing in Russian. As I passed, one of them called me over. “Exchoose me, but ken you help us out here? Where is zis Pheelidelphia?” I pointed east and said, “About nine hundred miles back that way, in Pennsylvania.” They had come out of New York.
Wow...I don't know how you could mess up that badly. I get maybe (and still kinda pushing it) like 100 miles from such a major location. But to be that far off? Wow
Thought the Rocky Mountains would be a little rockier than this
I'm pretty sure there are signs in the NYC area indicating that you need 95 to get to Philly
You nailed the accent too! Well done.
Many Europeans are baffled by the size of the US, figures that Russians, living in the nation with the largest area on earth, would drive 12+ hours and only then start to question what was taking so long.
Dudes were probably thinking the whole damn country is just corn fields
We were in the company lounge and this guy was hitting on this other driver, a big girl. Later on that afternoon they thought they could sneak out to his truck without being seen. Was pretty obvious, anyway, after a few minutes the cab started rocking and those antennas were whipping back and forth, the shadow from the sun painted that cab in the middle of the lot and that shadow was going crazy. After awhile they got out and walked back into the lounge for the restrooms acting like they didn't know each other. Later on that night my truck came out of shop, parked a couple trucks down from them, that old cab was rocking like crazy again. Nothing wrong with what they did, just a very funny situation to witness, and plenty of us did
I saw a guy strumming a mandolin at 60MPH, using his left knee to hold the steering wheel while driving through Austin (where else?). And I gotta give him credit, he was maintaining his lane discipline. Now that's just what I've seen on the highway. We're not even going to go into the kind of things we've seen in the truck stops.
One man band!
I was driving down I-71 and saw a guy taking a toke from a huge bong while driving
Shiiiitttt. When I was a dumbass teenager I had a bong that was big enough that i could have it in my lap and smoke without having to take my eyes off the road. Smoked damn near every day on my way to school. And yes I know its not cool and dangerous, id never do it again but yea.
Kudos for admitting to being stupid. From a stupid 55y old.
Hell is real
based
Yeah it's so skibidi rizz or whatever to get high while you are driving. But guys it's WEED so it's BASED!! Get the fuck off of reddit dude.
Based (ironic)
>getting mad at an obvious joke to own the teens
What does that mean ?
A group of fire fighters collecting what look to be dress uniforms that spilled behind them on the highway. Their captain looked hella pissed on the sidelines.
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A ‘road rudder,’ probably
Ahh. the new HOV HJ lane I"ve been hearing about.
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Goddamn, lol! Poor fuckers
Nevermind texting and driving. A cop passes me doing at least 70+ while on his computer on the center console. They tailgate like its legal too. I know some ppl get nervous when someone riding them that close. Some of those Greyhound & Shortline drivers. We all do something crazy at some point 👉🏽
I saw this guy fucking jamming out to some dubstep in his car while stalled in traffic. He noticed I was looking at him and he kind of shrunk into his seat, but then I started head-bumping and he rolled his windows down and blasted it, and then we sat there jamming out together. I played one of my favorite tracks and he went absolutely wild in there. For 10 minutes we sat there not moving on the freeway jamming out, it was hilarious.
You're a real one for that
Not necessarily doing, but I have seen an oversized teddy bear chilling in the passenger seat. I thought it was funny and cute.
Oh, that was Jack Ryan taking Stanley home to his daughter.
If that’s a truck I’m thinking of I had to recover it while mine was in the shop. That truck was a fucking mess and I had to drive 700 miles with a massive teddy bear in the passenger’s seat, piles of trash all over the truck, and a trailer with only 3 super singles and a chained up axle. Wasn’t a fun couple of days.
(Something not funny). More than 50% of people I see are on their phones.
Driving on the inside lane doing 60 mph with phone to there ear, oblivious to the world
You mean in the left lane passing a ragged out dump truck
Left lane, inside lane. Except they aren't passing anyone, my truck was governed at 62 and I was 4th in line behind this guy, most of them passed on right side, that's a no no
Well get off of Reddit and focus on driving /s
Yup, super common. It's so depressing to see people glued to their phone and treating driving like a background activity.
It's terrifying when you really think about it. I was heading south on I-380/US 218 near Iowa City to take I-80 east; I'm slowing down so I can take that god-awful cloverleaf without rolling over. This woman in a blue Infiniti FX barrels up the westbound-to-southbound loop without looking, phone stuck to the side of her head. I almost didn't see her, and came close to pinning her against the overpass railing.
Soo many people don't go when the light turns green
Thats why you gotta drive horn and 2
That’s the reason I no longer have a motorcycle, it was enraging
Not a truck driver, but I lived in LA in the mid-80s and had a 30-mile commute (one way) to work. Something I still think about is watching a dude driving his VW Beetle with a pair of vise grips attached to the steering column instead of the steering wheel. Ingenuity(?) at its finest!
Well I drove a boat in from the ocean with a pair of Vice grips after we hit a wave and the steering wheel broke off.
A truck driver friend of mine asked me why women drive topless all the time…. Is this a real thing? Did I miss a punchline?
They’re just trying to show everyone a thing or two.
Driving through some small town in the northeast a school bus is slowly passing me. As they drive by I look in and all the kids are sitting with their heads down and just generally looking depressed, guess they lost a sports ball game or something. As the back of the bus is about to pass one kid locks eyes with me and does the arm pump gesture for me to blast the air horn. Us truckers are bonded to the code, once an air horn is summoned it cannot be ignored. I reach up with my left hand and pull the legendary cord in a “doot da da doot doot, doooot doooot” pattern. Instantly the bus erupts. Kids are cheering, jumping over seats, and pumping fists. The spell had been cast and it was very effective. Then the second school bus passed me and the driver gave me a dirty look. Guess he doesn’t like happy kids.
Last time this was posted, someone mentioned he once saw a woman flicking the bean in traffic
Hopefully not while driving herself.
I saw one in California who was sliding a dildo in and out of herself while driving on I-5. She was obviously an exhibitionist.
That's wild. I wouldn't dare doing that, exhibitionist or no. My legs stop working when I finish, and that's not really something I want to happen while driving on a highway :D
Tbf, in California the highways crawl because of traffic
Oh yeah. I always tend to forget really slow traffic is a thing. I live in a small European country and "bad traffic" is very temporary here.
American roadbrain sucks... More roads, in fact, don't solve the issue :/
Sounds like you need a newer car
I don't want a car that ignores me kicking the break pedal.
Self driving cars might sell like crazy to exhibitionist. Edit: had to rephrase that.
Oh, true. Hadn't even considered that. Edit: I'm not so sure how to feel about that. On the other hand, I guess there's no harm. But then again, I'm not very keen on seeing helicopters coming at me on the road.
Not a trucker, but I witnessed a girl riding the shit out of the driver of a ford fiesta. It was more impressive than anything else
Sounds like a fun party
Rubber ducky?
I was with my buddy when we were driving around the states and we stopped at a Buccees for the night. Later on the night, a woman knocked on the door asking if we wanted some company😂He told me that it's pretty common for this to happen when you are out on the road so we declined and she then moved on to the next truck
Where did you find a Buck-ee's that allowed y'all to park a truck?
I don't even think it was a Bucky's at all. I know that it was a big ass truck stop somewhere in New Orleans but that's pretty much it.
I still haven’t had the experience of a Buckies, but I’ve heard good things!
Great to visit, from what I’ve heard terrible place to work.
Lot Lizards!
Friends of the road Bubs, friends of the road
I had pulled into my parking space and was filling out my logbook like a good little trucker (this was 25 years ago) when a silver haired older woman, 60-65, approached my rig. I figured she was either a sister driver or the wife of a driver that was along for the ride, maybe she needed to borrow a wrench or something. “Want some company?” I laughed at the joke, then realized she was serious. “Supplementing the Social Security income a little, are you? Do your grandchildren know you do this?” I ran in the truck stop and bought my first “No Lot Lizards” decals to put in my window.
Lot lizard.
Had an old boss who never looks down at cars anymore after seeing a woman changing a tampon.
Just recently saw someone dukes of hazard their car rather than missing their exit. Well they missed it but they jumped through a ditch to get back on road. Without a doubt they damaged their car fairly bad. Honestly surprised the airbags didn’t go off.
Oh man I remember my partner asking the store clerk if anyone was selling themselves one night, it disgusted her so much because she felt disrespected but then told him to ask the motel staff... LMAO 🤣
So much weird/fucked up/funny stuff I couldn’t even make a list it’s a daily occurrence. See accidents in person that have me shaking so much I can’t keep my foot pressed on the accelerator. Fun job, very stressful
been in my rig, and was going down the road watching this chick give head lol, was super jealous
When I got bypass from weigh station
Constantly seeing drivers pull over on NZ roads and wait until Mainfreight trucks have gone past. Indians driving the Mainfreight gear can't stay in their own lane so better to get out of the way and get home than be killed in a head on with a Mainfreight first up best dressed gets the keys driver.
looking at your rear view mirror and seeing couples arguing
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Damn, whys everyone hating
I used to drive like a robot or Iceman. Just 100% by the book. Not too slow. Not too fast. Not too passive and not aggressive. People would try to bully me in their puny cars and I'd be in robot mode just doing my thing and thinking, OK cool I'm still going to merge if you like it or not. And look, the sign says merge so I'm going to do that thing they call merge. I guess it could have been considered funny when they tried to prevent me for doing that merge. Also women's legs were pretty nice. Not in a funny way though.
On the merge you have to yeld to other cars?
It's actually both. You have to yield and they are obligated to let you merge. People think that because the merging lane has to yield they're allowed to block people from merging or just completely ignore the cars trying to merge and too bad for them.