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Post by trailboss on Sept 2, 2018 0:12:59 GMT -5
Back in the 80's, I regularly hooked up with my buddy on a north coast> Southern California run. I hauled swinging beef and he hauled potato chips for Granny Goose potato chip company. Back then, with the older air-tanks at the end of the day part of the procedure was to drain your air tanks with either a petcock valve or a cable you tugged to drain the air tanks...out would come a nasty concoction of greasy varnish and condensation resembling the nastiest huge pile of cat turds you ever saw.
Well my buddy thought..."It is a shame to waste this precious commodity" so he installed a relay valve to bleed it off from the comfort of the cab and with an angled valve to shoot it from the passenger side of his rig when he parked at night. As we were headed down highway 101 through Santa Barbara towards Oxnard, some Cholos in a lowrider Impala were on his right and decided to be A$$hats and not let him over when he activated his right turn signal for at least a couple miles, from my vantage point as his back door I could see that they were playing games as they yukked it up.......he keyed up on Channel 19 and told me "Time for dirtbag removal." I was behind him and watched the foul spray pepper them...instinctively the driver of the Impala hit the wiper switch...greasy varnish+ condensation= really bad windshield....they pulled over and as i went by, they looked like they had been peppered with grease from hell...(they were in a convertible...had a diamond tuck, white leather interior to boot ), a bunch of gangsters that looked like they were from the movie set of "Colors"... it was like something out of a comedy movie. Red Mulberry and I pulled into Long Beach, i smoked my figural meer with Stokkebye nougat and he had his cigar while we drank Myers Rum and laughed about it...good times.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2018 1:13:51 GMT -5
What memories! In one of my lives I had to hand load quarters of beef and unload the same way, carry them up steps to at least one customer. I didn't have any James Bond weapons like your friend had. I just remember asking to use the restroom in one store. Next time I had to use it I saw a sign, "No Truck Drivers." I went out and peed on their parking lot. Was a long drive to that place and back.
Best of times. Worst of times.
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Post by Legend Lover on Sept 2, 2018 4:53:27 GMT -5
That's a brilliant story. I love it when people get what's coming to them. It's not very gracious, but some people deserve it.
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Post by Darin on Sept 2, 2018 7:11:59 GMT -5
That story ended well ... the swinging beef and petcock references had me a bit unnerved at first.
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Post by oldcajun123 on Sept 2, 2018 7:17:57 GMT -5
Charlie I saw what truckers go thru when I had to run a flatbed with oil field equip. They call it Hot Shotting, trying to make a few bucks while financial trail was going on, Lump sum from Exxon 2/3 s gone. We won after 3 yrs, here’s my story, I got a call from my Lawyer, said Bradley we won, they’ve settled, after I hung up, I get a call from my Dispatcher, hot delivery to Houma La, I could of said I quit, but owner took a chance on me, I had no experience and I couldn’t leave him in a bind. Off I go, cold wet North wind blowing 20 to thirty miles an hr. I get there and pull in a big open warehouse, Recievers office a little shack inside, I had to shut my UD down, you couldn’t run it inside the warehouse, cold, cold I go to the receiver shack and opened the door warm inside, man runs up and shoulders the door trying to close it yelling NO TRUCKERS INSIDE. He almost got my fingers, I grabbed his wrist and pulled him outside, stepped inside and closed and locked the door, I was toasty inside, he was cold dressed in only a shirt, called my Boss, told him this was my last delivery and continued to hear profanity from man locked out. They unloaded my truck, I opened door and he rushed me, I gave him a parting shot, I thought it was pretty good for an old man. Driving back I thought of all the truckers who are thought of less than human and not treated right. Charlie you and your Band have my utmost respect.
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Post by pepesdad1 on Sept 2, 2018 7:24:27 GMT -5
" pulled him outside, stepped inside and closed and locked the door, I was toasty inside, he was cold dressed in only a shirt,"
Absolutely, love it. Laughed so hard my coffee went everywhere. Exactly what I would have done. Bradley, you win the prize for best post of the day. Congratulations, old man. (from another old man)
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Post by Pistol Pete 1911 on Sept 2, 2018 8:20:46 GMT -5
That story ended well ... the swinging beef and petcock references had me a bit unnerved at first.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2018 10:19:23 GMT -5
Some great, funny reading from a few of you above me.....thanks for sharing...I needed a good laugh👍
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Post by crapgame on Sept 2, 2018 10:56:41 GMT -5
A fellow trucker and I used to play tricks on each other doing things like hiding dead fish in the dog box...dog poop under the door handle..limberger cheese on the stack.. things like that.. well he gave up the day I bought large, no Very Large tire inner tube and attatched with large hose clamps to his stack... he came out of the truck stop near the shipper we hauled frozen items from and started up his truck. Well the inner that I clamped to his stack and shoved inside his stack started to fill with exhaust and grew and grew until it blew up!! He jumped out of his truck wearing nothing but his underware white as ghost thinking his truck was going to explode.. when he saw me and about a dozen of our friends laughing our butts off pointing to his stack where the innertube was shredded he said enough is enough and said i won..game over!
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Post by trailboss on Sept 2, 2018 11:43:58 GMT -5
Great story, Brad! A fellow trucker and I used to play tricks on each other doing things like hiding dead fish in the dog box...dog poop under the door handle..limberger cheese on the stack.. things like that.. well he gave up the day I bought large, no Very Large tire inner tube and attatched with large hose clamps to his stack... he came out of the truck stop near the shipper we hauled frozen items from and started up his truck. Well the inner that I clamped to his stack and shoved inside his stack started to fill with exhaust and grew and grew until it blew up!! He jumped out of his truck wearing nothing but his underware white as ghost thinking his truck was going to explode.. when he saw me and about a dozen of our friends laughing our butts off pointing to his stack where the innertube was shredded he said enough is enough and said i won..game over! That must have been hilarious!...I always went incognito, on such things because it could escalate pretty badly. I used to have customers give me chips and sodas, and while I might not necessarily consume them, the guy that drove the yard goat at night would rummage through the truck and consume everything that wasn't nailed down. I bought a bag of pork rinds and coated them with cayenne and talcum powder and rolled the bag up and put a rubber band on it, the next day they were gone, but they must have screwed up his taste buds something fierce. Another time I had a buddy give me a flip top box of Marlboro's with a couple cigarettes in it...I shoved 5 cigarette loads into it and put them up on the dash...I came to work the next day, his lips were blistered up, and his face looked like an angry cat took a swipe,...he was pissed off, and wanted to know why I would do something like that. I told him that I didn't know what he was talking about, after I asked him what he was complaining about..told him I didn't smoke and that the supervisor gave Reggie my truck the day before. Reggie hated Jimmy, and would peel Jimmy apart if Jimmy screwed with him, Jimmy knew it.
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Post by crapgame on Sept 2, 2018 17:27:35 GMT -5
Charlie I saw what truckers go thru when I had to run a flatbed with oil field equip. They call it Hot Shotting, trying to make a few bucks while financial trail was going on, Lump sum from Exxon 2/3 s gone. We won after 3 yrs, here’s my story, I got a call from my Lawyer, said Bradley we won, they’ve settled, after I hung up, I get a call from my Dispatcher, hot delivery to Houma La, I could of said I quit, but owner took a chance on me, I had no experience and I couldn’t leave him in a bind. Off I go, cold wet North wind blowing 20 to thirty miles an hr. I get there and pull in a big open warehouse, Recievers office a little shack inside, I had to shut my UD down, you couldn’t run it inside the warehouse, cold, cold I go to the receiver shack and opened the door warm inside, man runs up and shoulders the door trying to close it yelling NO TRUCKERS INSIDE. He almost got my fingers, I grabbed his wrist and pulled him outside, stepped inside and closed and locked the door, I was toasty inside, he was cold dressed in only a shirt, called my Boss, told him this was my last delivery and continued to hear profanity from man locked out. They unloaded my truck, I opened door and he rushed me, I gave him a parting shot, I thought it was pretty good for an old man. Driving back I thought of all the truckers who are thought of less than human and not treated right. Charlie you and your Band have my utmost respect. I cant take credit for this Brad, this was the guy i used to pull pranks on and would do the same to me. Anyway we went to a receiver that was notorious for being nasty to truckers. Well Opie went to use the bathroom and there was a sign on the door no truckers allowed.. well Opie asked if there was a rest room he could use and the dock supervisor said 'Yeah the pilot at the next exit". This did not sit well with Opie so he went to his truck, took the lid off of his pickle bucket place a plastic bag inside and took a dump. His next step was to go into the waiting room and throw away his garbage since the outside dumpster was locked and had a sign beside it reading "Truck Drivers Are Not Permitted To Dump Trash in This Dumpster."
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Post by trailboss on Sept 2, 2018 19:40:32 GMT -5
I cannot say it is the case with Brad and Mike’s experience, but there are some real scumbags in the transportation industry that cause companies to initiate unfriendly policies. Dumping blown tires on company property is common fare.
It was nowhere near as bad back in the day as it is now, going into a Love’s truck stop is like the Star Wars bar scene...and piss filled bottles litter the highways.
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Post by crapgame on Sept 2, 2018 21:55:44 GMT -5
I cannot say it is the case with Brad and Mike’s experience, but there are some real scumbags in the transportation industry that cause companies to initiate unfriendly policies. Dumping blown tires on company property is common fare. It was nowhere near as bad back in the day as it is now, going into a Love’s truck stop is like the Star Wars bar scene...and piss filled bottles litter the highways. I agree Charlie..There are some real scum truckers out there, and I have worked with some myself. It is a shame when a driver has to go above and beyond just to show a shipper or reciever that not all drivers that work for XXX transport Inc are not assholes. there was a beer distributer that had a cork board in the security booth with pictures of drivers not allowed on the property, and there was one guy that would sit at the gate in a jockey truck that he owned and charge the Wall of Shame drivers 50 bucks to back a trailer into a door. some days he could make 300 bucks doing that.
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Post by puffy on Sept 2, 2018 22:17:32 GMT -5
The thing that bothers my son the most is when he busts his his tail to get a delivery some place on time..Then has to wait 3 or 4 hours for them to start unloading to his trailer.
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Post by Dramatwist on Sept 2, 2018 22:18:18 GMT -5
OUTSTANDING tale, Charlie! I love it!
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