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dabluzman1

dabluzman1

Veteran Expediter
Retired Expediter
greg334 said:
The more important question is this;

Seeing you didn't make any bones about how you got where you are, if you saw what I saw, would you call FedEx immediately and report them?
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I am sure this question somehow relates to the long long off topic post you made here.
( I know I will regret this ) Maybe you could pontificate on the
hidden meaning, say what is really bugging you.
 
Yesteryear

Yesteryear

Expert Expediter
:confused:
dabluzman1 said:
At age 57 and counting, I rarely get surprised at things I come across.
But, over the past two years of over the road driving, I have more than once been caught off guard, by what has been described to me as an "experienced team" manuever.
Yep, I am talking about the "rolling switch" the "moving driver swap" or "suicide move #1" (as I call it).
Naive I may be, but I see no reason for this ever to happen.
I would not expect anyone to admit to practicing this highly
unsafe manuever and think their carrier would retain them.
All I can hope is that everyone who practices this stupid trick
gets caught and their CDL revoked for being a moron.
Suspending them couldnt happen fast enough to help keep our roads a little safer.
The hundreds of things that could potentially go wrong as two
drivers vie for control of the wheel scare the hell out of me from ever even considering doing a bonehead thing as that.
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:eek: Your kidding right? No one really does something like that? Well, since I was born and raised in Missouri, that is one I would have to say "show me" cause I'm not going to believe it could be done unless I see it with my own two eyes! And let me tell you right now, if I see it with my own two eyes I'm a thinking I might just have to report that team to their company and I have never reported anyone for anything. I try to mind me own business but something like that would be putting others to risk of harm!
 
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Poorboy

Expert Expediter
Yesteryear said:
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:eek: Your kidding right? No one really does something like that? Well, since I was born and raised in Missouri, that is one I would have to say "show me" cause I'm not going to believe it could be done unless I see it with my own two eyes! And let me tell you right now, if I see it with my own two eyes I'm a thinking I might just have to report that team to their company and I have never reported anyone for anything. I try to mind me own business but something like that would be putting others to risk of harm!
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I saw It Being Done One Time down by Dallas a Couple of Years Ago, It took me And my Co-Driver completely by Surprise! The Truck was Leased Onto a Well Known Expediting Company. Unfortunatley for them the Texas State Patrol Also seen it and Stopped them..I Don't know what the outcome was But you Can Rest Assured they didn't get a Slap on the Wrist!!
 
Yesteryear

Yesteryear

Expert Expediter
Poorboy said:
I saw It Being Done One Time down by Dallas a Couple of Years Ago, It took me And my Co-Driver completely by Surprise! The Truck was Leased Onto a Well Known Expediting Company. Unfortunatley for them the Texas State Patrol Also seen it and Stopped them..I Don't know what the outcome was But you Can Rest Assured they didn't get a Slap on the Wrist!!
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Well! I should hope that trooper gave them a pounding on the bu##! Just hard to believe there could be people that hare brained but I guess there must be! OMG what next? :confused:
 
OntarioVanMan

OntarioVanMan

Retired Expediter
Owner/Operator
Automatic transmissions, A/C, power seats.....none of ya are real truck drivers.....just a big SUV!!! Just because ya log doesn't make ya a truck driver.....:rolleyes:
 
iceroadtrucker

iceroadtrucker

Veteran Expediter
Driver
OntarioVanMan said:
Automatic transmissions, A/C, power seats.....none of ya are real truck drivers.....just a big SUV!!! Just because ya log doesn't make ya a truck driver.....:rolleyes:
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Well I do not have no Automatic Tyranny, hows a 13 speed for now. I don't have a power vibrating and Heated seat, but it is a manual slide with air up and down. I may have AC but hey Sometimes the line must get drawn some where. I don't have a big ole condo just a simple 1/4 piece of Foam sitting on a canvas sheet taught to the metal frame bunk and my Sleeping bag. Yup I do log and I am for sure a Tractor Trailer Driver. I wouldn't have it any other way. Ya Ontario man I'm for sure a Tractor Trailer Driver. one last thing, at the end of my day and If I have a layover I go work out !!!! well I guess me working out makes me not a truck driver. As real truck drivers don't do that so I've been told on here. Many just make cat calls on the CB or play on their lap tops in the Cyber World.
sorry my mistake I stand corrected I guess I'm not a truck Driver.

Now you have the rest of the story good day. :p
 
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Yesteryear

Yesteryear

Expert Expediter
OntarioVanMan said:
Automatic transmissions, A/C, power seats.....none of ya are real truck drivers.....just a big SUV!!! Just because ya log doesn't make ya a truck driver.....:rolleyes:
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:eek: What TRUCK DRIVER! Your dang right we're not no nasty truck driver! Why such an insult! Heck, don't know about the rest of ya but I'm no truck driver, no siree! Me, I'm an expedite driver! Yep, that's what I am! An expedite driver not to be confused with a truck driver! :D
 
cheri1122

cheri1122

Veteran Expediter
Driver
Agree with Yesteryear: I'm an expediter who drives a truck. That doesn't have an automatic transmission or power seat - but I too draw the line at AC, cos leaving the window down really snarls my hair, lol. ;)
 
Scuba

Scuba

Veteran Expediter
OntarioVanMan said:
Automatic transmissions, A/C, power seats.....none of ya are real truck drivers.....just a big SUV!!! Just because ya log doesn't make ya a truck driver.....:rolleyes:
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I am a trucker and i am **** proud of it. I have 26 years on the toad give or take a few years it is 0227 after all. I have driver 9, 10,13,15,speeds and a double stick 4x5. And now i have an automatic and i don;t feel it makes me any less of a trucker at all. i started driving a 78 gmc cabover and once i got into a hood i never went back. I for one don't need a 13 speed to prove i am a man. But hey if you want to drive an old cornbinder with a creat for a seat and an 18 speed to make you feel good go for it.
 
OntarioVanMan

OntarioVanMan

Retired Expediter
Owner/Operator
Scuba said:
I am a trucker and i am **** proud of it. I have 26 years on the toad give or take a few years it is 0227 after all. I have driver 9, 10,13,15,speeds and a double stick 4x5. And now i have an automatic and i don;t feel it makes me any less of a trucker at all. i started driving a 78 gmc cabover and once i got into a hood i never went back. I for one don't need a 13 speed to prove i am a man. But hey if you want to drive an old cornbinder with a creat for a seat and an 18 speed to make you feel good go for it.
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You earned your automatic! Like me an ole double stick Diamond T......:D
 
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