TRUCK DRIVERS WANTED FOR A NEW TELEVISION SHOW ON

CLMCasting · Nov 3, 2006

Hello eveyone...

I heard about your website through the grapevine, and I thought it might be a good place to get the word out about a project I'm working on. I know this probably isnt a typical post that goes up on your message boards, but bear with me- you might be interested! My name's Jessica Kiernan and I'm a Casting Assistant at City Lights Television. We're doing a unique show for a new series we have about Manners and Etiquette, and we're looking for truck drivers for our pilot episode. I'm going to post the breakdown about what we're looking for exactly below. If anyone is interested, please contact me @ [email protected] as soon as possible! Thanks so much!

Are you, or someone you know, a TRUCK DRIVER (can be male or female) who would benefit from top notch etiquette training for an upcoming event (wedding, black tie function, fancy dinner) that maybe you feel ill-prepared for? Is your spouse/friend/employee a TRUCK DRIVER (who drives ANY kind of truck or delivery vehicle) and spends so much time behind the wheel that when they finally get home exhausted... proper etiquette is the last thing on their mind? If so, City Lights Television is looking for you to perhaps be a part for our brand new series about manners and etiquette on a well-known cable network. Etiquette is a lost art and you'd be surprised at what a renewed set of manners can help you accomplish! If this kind of personal improvement interests you, please contact [email protected] and tell us about yourself and why you think you (or someone you know) could greatly benefit from etiquette coaching. You MUST include a picture in your e-mail. Thank you!

RichM · Nov 3, 2006

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Personally I would be pretty carefull about this one. Could be money involved going from you to them.It could also portray you as a simple buffon that they remake into a" Gentleman".Looks like the classic portrayl of the truckdriver slob,who are they to assume we are not educated,refined,decent family guys.

davekc · Nov 3, 2006

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I would agree. I don't think we need someone trying to portray our industry in a negative light. I feel these people know very little about the people in the expedite industry.

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greg334 · Nov 3, 2006

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Rich
I somewhat agree with you but remember that 80% of people don't have a clue what to do or how to act in many situations. I find just opening a door or saying please/thank you is something that is beyond a lot of people but not really truckers just general population. Truckers I find in general are better than most kids and many more people in the general population.

Now if they can teach some of these truck drivers how to; wash their hands, wear clothes that are not showing their a** and teach a few how to wash dirty clothes it will be a worth while show. These are only a few of millions.

On the other hand if they can teach people proper phone etiquette that would be good.

Oh a serious question with a few people on this side of the screen is has anyone every seen a truck driver in a suit? I can say I have seen one and only one.

chuckwagon · Nov 3, 2006

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YOU SHOULD DELETE THIS GARBAGE OFF OF HERE.

To participate in something that will make you and the industry look like a group of fools and rude SOB's is idiotic.

To even allow this OUTSIDER to post on this site is not much better.
There should be some sort of delay after registration before someone is allowed to post.

If the ain't in the industry - then they more than likely do not care about our issues - why the hell should we care about theirs!

greg334 · Nov 3, 2006

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Relax Chuckwagon,

The thing is that if they were serious about casting people for a show, they would not use a yahoo email address - it shows that they don't know a thing about proper business/recuriting etiquette which is not to use a genaric form of communications.

terryandrene · Nov 3, 2006

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A google search reveals a CLM Casting. The issue is about trucks so they should be welcome to announce an opportunity for a trucker. On the other hand, I agree that we don't need to have one of our own being portrayed as a buffoon turned socialite on nationwide TV.

fastman_1 · Nov 3, 2006

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Wedding Etiquette means after you say I do, you can't date anymore.
Black Tie Function, Zipper Up
Importaint Dinner, Don't Pick your Nose
There you go Guys all you need to know about Etiquette and I didn't require a picture.

Owner/Operator since 1979
Expediter since 1997
B Unit Semi Retired
Somedays are Diamonds and Somedays are Stones
Home is Wherever you Park.

lanier1 · Nov 4, 2006

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Frankly I think the industry would be better represented by someone from this forum rather than what they might dredge up from the local truck stop. If they are for real they will find someone somewhere so why not put a good foot forward.

cheri1122 · Nov 4, 2006

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Here's your chance to be on tv! As a modern day 'Beverly Hillbilly'...Me, I'll pass - no black tie events in my immediate future anyway. Guess I'll just have to risk falling in the 'cement pond' if one appears...

silverdollar · Nov 4, 2006

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If they wanted truckdrivers, why not go to a trucking website?

CLMCasting · Nov 4, 2006

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Hello all...

I didnt mean to cause such a stir with my posting! I certainly didnt mean to offend anyone at all - I just wanted to put the breakdown up where I felt alot of people in the trucking community could see it; this was the first trucking site I found that had an extensive forum. While you are all absolutely entitled to your opinion of the show, etc., let me clarify a few things- we are in fact, a real casting division at a real company, City Lights Television. We set up a yahoo e-mail address for this project so that the submissions that we get would all go to the same place instead of to a bunch of different people's work addresses here at City Lights. And we're not out to drag the trucking community through the mud at all. I just wanted to put the opportunity out there fo anyone who was interested- if you do have an event coming up that you feel you're not prepared for etiquette wise, please do contact us, we'd love to hear from you. Again, I apologize if I offended anyone with the posting - that was certainly not my intent.

Jessica

sixwheeler · Nov 4, 2006

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If this show ever does make the airwaves what other possibility could there be, other than to show a truck driver as an unclean, uncouth, semi-literate, excuse for a human being? That is pretty much the stereotypical media portrayal , is it not? Everyone knows what animals we are, ratings will be great for you.

tec1959 · Nov 4, 2006

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Well I think that the trucking community needs to do alot of Inhouse cleaning of Its own,I've been In the Industry for over 20 years an I can say that I'm not an outsider.No wonder the rest of the world see's us as sixwheeler stated.There's alot of drivers acting like this and hurting our Industry.I think alot of them need all the can help they can get to find the showers and walmarts for new clothes...

panthervanman · Nov 4, 2006

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wow I don't know what truck stops you are going to but the truck stops I've been in could use this guys help.Maybe they can teach some drivers after comming out of the stall in the mens room where the sink and soap is!!! Maybe they can teach them how to cover their mouths when coughing,or how to throw away their nasty pee bottles insted of just throwing them in the lot. Come on if you can't see why the public thinks the way they do than maybe you ought to take off the blinders. Turn on your cb and listen to the foul and ignorant talk,a black man can't even ask for direction with out someone calling him the N word.I meet alot of great people out here,I'm not at all saying that everyone in our buisness is like the ones that just don't give a darn. Sometimes when I run into a freind I haven't seen in a while and they ask what I'm doing now days,I'm almost ashamed to say. I hope if they do a show that it helps our image. I hope it shows that drivers are normal people trying to make a living for their families, and not just a bunch of foul mouth dirt bags.

Panthervanman:7 :7 :7 ;-)

Dreamer · Nov 4, 2006

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Panthervanman,

People may see the stereotype, but it is up to us to show them a difference. I think drivers are slowly gaining a better reputation. Walk thru a truck stop, and you see the difference. Yes, we still have the lazy ones who pee on the fuel isle, (NO PEE THREADS PLEASE..LOL), but many drivers are tired of that bad image.

We'll always have the bad element, but, those are the 'tweeners'.

I usually see the old drivers who still take pride in their ride, the "cowboys" as it were, who respect the old ways, and live the "code of the road". These guys have been at it a while. They still wear jeans and boots, maybe even the cowboy hat. They sometimes still wear the finger gloves out of habit, because they drove when the vibration of the steering wheel wore calluses on your hands. They remember the 23 Channel CB's, and still know all the 10-codes. You'll hear them answer a request for a 10-36, and talking about where the 33 was up the road. They've still got their own language, that so called 'trucker slang'.

Then, you've got the 'tweeners'. This is a group who have only been in it a few years, got in driving because they had no choice, lost a job, it's what they could find, etc. These people have no respect for the job, no respect for themselves, or the traditions of trucking. These are the ones you see in the sweats, flip flops, foul mouthed, trash talking etc. They make fun of the 'old guys' and the way they talk, the way they look, and think a CB is for a power struggle over a captive audience. "The biggest radio wins".

Then, there's the new breed. These are usually educated, well dressed folks who come from another career, and CHOSE this way of life. They are smart, polite, hard working businessmen (and ladies) who take pride in their work. Some may look like cowboys, some rednecks, some look like a day at the country club. The connecting factor is they take pride in themselves, what they do, and it shows. They have respect for the profession, respect for traditions, and they generate respect from those around them.

I'm proud to say we have many of these here on this site. I've met many of them. Will it ever be like the 'old days', when the "Knights of the Road" were respected, and looked up to? Maybe not, but we can do our part to change how the public sees us.

Bring back the respect. Wasn't that a slogan somewhere a few years ago?

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are12 · Nov 5, 2006

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Very well said, I think you covered it all!!

jaxtrucker · Nov 5, 2006

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WTG Dreamer,

You hit the nail right on the head, in all three catagories! Too many times, as with most everything, a few people (loosely stated) ruin it for the rest, we spend 90% of our time dealing with 10% of the problems. As I am new to the expediting world, I can't answer for most of you, however, I have plenty of T/T experience to draw upon.

Like many of you, I have seen the "bad actors" and just have to shake my head, kind of makes you wonder, what did their parents teach them? Self respect, common courtesy, and pride are just a few things that come to mind when I conduct myself.

I may be speaking out of class, but am correct in assuming that most expediter types are older, married/divorced, doing this as a second retirement etc? If the answer is yes to all or most, then you can probably say that from our upbringing, we were taught/shown by example, the proper manners.

Not to make excuses for bad behavior, but if the minority has not learned, we need to show by example and bring them into the fold if you will......

I will stop now, went on a tangent, sorry.

runningturttle · Nov 5, 2006

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Runningturttle
Me thinks that perhaps the one who wrote this should go to some truck stops. Perhaps some of us truckers are classed as slobs and lack "GOOD MANNERS" but we are a group unto ourselves. I hear a lot of "thank you, please, your welcome, Yes Mam and No Sir's, every day at truck stops all over this Great Country of ours. I have also seen big rigs take to the ditch in an effort to miss the 4 wheeler that pulled out in front of them. Often times loseing their own life to save the life of the "polite ones". I have also seen the dirty, uncoth trucker trying to remove kids from a burning school bus laying in the ditch, totally unmindful of the burns they were getting in doing so. Pehaps we don't wear a suit and tie, but we do wear our honor. Keep on trucking drivers.

guest · Nov 5, 2006

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Wow. As a fan of "What Not to Wear", etc., I am amazed at the reaction to this. I guess I expected expediters to be a little more classy in their response, but I guess truckers will be truckers, no matter what type truck they drive. You're doing a pretty good job of reinforcing the scumbag image with your narrowminded comments. I think most normal people could do with some expert advise when it comes to social events. I don't think your daughter wants to be marched down the isle on the arm of Larry the Cable Guy.

Mike & Cindy