SargeW
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Is it just me, or has the professional truck driver population decreased as of late? It used to seem that truckers used to be the sharpest ones out on the road. Anymore I think there is a new breed out there. IE, we pulled into a Loves Travel Center on I/S 10 in Texas just outside of Kerrville. It was a Monday, about 4 PM. There was not enough room for us to fit in the auto pumps, so we went to the truck pumps. All of the lanes were full, and some were stacked 2 deep already.
We picked one that only had one truck in it, a heavy duty tow truck that did not have a tow. He was in the #2 lane away from the fuel desk. We pulled up and stopped a ways behind him. He was outside the truck, and no fuel hoses were in the truck. He was picking at one of his tires, not paying any attention to us. After a minute, he looked up at me, and walked into the fuel desk. I assumed he was going in to pay, or have the pumps started.
He was gone about 10 minutes. When he came back, he was holding a Subway sandwich bag! He looked at me again, and walked to his truck. He sat in it about 5 more minutes, at the pump. Finally he started up, and finally pulled out. When he pulled out, I could see another truck in front of him that had already pumped and was just sitting there. He turned and easily drove around the front truck and drove off. What an idiot.
So I pulled up, fueled, paid and got in to leave. The front truck was still there! I pulled up, drove around him and drove out. As I passed by, the driver was sitting in the drivers seat on the phone.
What the heck ever happened to common sense and courtesy?? Pretty sad. I think that there is a new breed of driver out there. In stead of being professional drivers, they are just people that couldn't get another job. It's too bad.
And this is a few months after a guy in a Bimbo Bakery Semi truck pulled out of a line of trucks at the weigh station on the 5 fwy in Castiac from a dead stop directly in front of me. We were in our MH driving at 60 MPH pulling the Jeep.
Be careful out there....... (end of rant)
We picked one that only had one truck in it, a heavy duty tow truck that did not have a tow. He was in the #2 lane away from the fuel desk. We pulled up and stopped a ways behind him. He was outside the truck, and no fuel hoses were in the truck. He was picking at one of his tires, not paying any attention to us. After a minute, he looked up at me, and walked into the fuel desk. I assumed he was going in to pay, or have the pumps started.
He was gone about 10 minutes. When he came back, he was holding a Subway sandwich bag! He looked at me again, and walked to his truck. He sat in it about 5 more minutes, at the pump. Finally he started up, and finally pulled out. When he pulled out, I could see another truck in front of him that had already pumped and was just sitting there. He turned and easily drove around the front truck and drove off. What an idiot.
So I pulled up, fueled, paid and got in to leave. The front truck was still there! I pulled up, drove around him and drove out. As I passed by, the driver was sitting in the drivers seat on the phone.
What the heck ever happened to common sense and courtesy?? Pretty sad. I think that there is a new breed of driver out there. In stead of being professional drivers, they are just people that couldn't get another job. It's too bad.
And this is a few months after a guy in a Bimbo Bakery Semi truck pulled out of a line of trucks at the weigh station on the 5 fwy in Castiac from a dead stop directly in front of me. We were in our MH driving at 60 MPH pulling the Jeep.
Be careful out there....... (end of rant)