Trucking USA

See if you can guess these locations. I’ll add more pictures as we go. You have to click on the Title or the Pic and go to that posts page, to get to the comments section.

In going through some of my pictures, taken on the road in recent years, I discovered that I don’t remember where some of them were taken. So I decided to bring them out where you guys can see them and see if you can identify the area, state, maybe even the highway.

I’m starting with something easy. Come on in, make your comments and see if everybody knows where this is.

This one’s a little harder. See if you can place it.

What you think? Can you guess this one?

I think I remember where this was but for the life of me, I can’t remember the highway. I think I was through there once.

This photo put an end to some really stupid stuff, going on in the container division. I too this photo and dressed it up with wording and sent it straight to the safety dept.

Here’s what happened. I,like a fool, signed on as a lease driver. I knew better but for some dumb reason I did it anyway. Long story. Continue reading Just One of my Many Stories

I’ll have to fill you in on who or what I am, before I go on. I started driving in the 70’s. Actually, I started out pulling mobile homes and it just seems like it was a natural development, that I eventually went into long haul.

I actually went to a school the company provided. Two weeks and I was sent out to pick up my own truck and get to work. One thing I always remembered was the head instructor, who happened to spend years driving semi, himself, said that once you’ve pulled mobile homes, you can drive anything. He was right. After managing something 14′ wide and 70′ long, I had no problems shifting over to semi. Continue reading Folks, I hate to add something of any serious nature but….

Setting: Back in the late 70s

Back then, I kept trying to get on with Yellow Freight. The first time I went in the guy told me their insurance wouldn’t cover a woman unless she had 6 months verifiable on the road. I couldn’t offer verified miles so I went back on the road and drove 6 months. I came back in and the guy told me the insurance had just recently made some changes and now it had to be a year.

When it got up to 2 years, I told him to kiss my ass.

I went out with a small outfit, out of Albuquerue. He only had 5 trucks and a friend of mine worked for him. That friend kept trying everything under the sun to get me to work for this guy so we could drive teams. Continue reading Christianson Trucking Nightmare Story

OK,now this one will kill ya Not like things happen today.

I happen to go with a friend, who hauled a flat bed with containerized furniture. He was having eye surgery and would take something like 6 months to heal, before he could go back to work.

He was leased out to Cartright Van Lines and there was no way he could stop the truck, long enough for him to sit home for 6 months. Payments had to be made. So he made a deal with me. Go with him for about a month and train on the job, then take over his truck for that 6 months. I could keep all the proceeds in exchange for saving his truck for him. OK…cool deal. Continue reading My First Driving Test