slow drawl
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My old man was a long hauler in the late 60s early 70s, straight as they come didn't even drink. Could stay up for hours on end without help other than coffee. He talked a bit about some of his buddys popping cross tops and black beauties just to keep up. He ran coast to coast and didn't have time to be in anybody's business, always a deadline to meet. Never heard much of them purposely causing grief for others back then.You wouldn't even be able to wipe your ass it weren't for truckers.
I don't want argue but I see and hear these kind of comments all the time. Do understand why they line up? Load differentials, engine displacement?
And do you honestly believe that guys that spend yrs of their life on the road have time to mess cage drivers? C'mon now, lol.
And its damn near impossible to "fudge" log books. That shit is all computerized wired into the trucks system. They know when its idling, they know when its running.
The misconceptions that float around one the most highly regulated industry in the US still leaves me baffled.
Things just aren't that way anymore. Truckers are the heart of american hauling and always will be, can't do it all with trains a planes.