| Look...... the country goes bonkers over tomatoes making 120 sick, but we hear very little if anything at all about 44,000 truckers parking their trucks last month. I just wonded how much more American truckers will take before they start pushing back.
The same questions are being asked here.....
European truckers are protesting, doing the job that American truckers should be supporting.
This is a true story
After my Dad left the Navy in 1946 he got a government loan and bought his first truck. He was leased to North American Van Lines then. During summer vacation from school I would travel all over America with him for two and three months. This was a time when trucks weren't much larger then many pick-up trucks today. There were no Freeways in the country at the time. I remember like it was yesterday. We were just west of Texarkana Texas, pulling out of a gas station. Dad was going through the gears and was about to shift again when a patrol car came up behind with lights and siren going. Dad pulled over. The cop walk up to the truck and asked for license. Dad asked what it was all about. "You were speeding". "Hey I was still in third gear with a full load, how the hell could I be speeding?" Well anyway the Cop hauled Dad off to the judge, while I sat in the truck. Dad ended (now this is 1947-48) paying $75.
Dad dropped his load off the next day in Dallas, we laid over that night. Dad picked up a half load, and headed east to pick up another load going to North Carolina. We were going back through the same area of Texas again when the same Cop pulled Dad over again for speeding. But this time the Cop said that Dad could save some money if he just paid him $50. I think Dad was white knuckled and a red as a beet, and would have beat the hell out of the Cop right there and then, but because I was there .... he paid the money.
That night we stayed at a motel on just on the west side of this small town Dad got pulled over in. During the night Dad woke me and said he was going to fill up the truck. Dad dropped the trailer and told me to stay in the motel room.
About two hours later at first light Dad come back to the motel. He hooked up the trailer while I was getting dressed, and then we headed east out of town. We were about a mile of so out of town when we past the Cop's patrol car that was setting on the side of the road, as we past the car I looked back afraid Dad might get nailed again. The front of the patrol car was pushed in, and in the set sat the Cop with his head down.
That day while we were driving I noticed that Dad kept looking in the side mirror. I also notice that the knuckles on both hand were cut up. He never said a word about what had happened that day except to say "Never take shit from a asshole twice." A day or two later I asked Dad if he had killed the Cop. He said the Cop wasn't worth killing, he said he just wanted to make sure we had time to get out of the state.
In later years Dad ended up with a company with eight tractors, twelve trailers, and ten drivers.
How much longer are American truckers going to take this shit. Anyone out there got the answer?
Last edited by Greyfoxx; 06-12-2008 at 10:59 AM.
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