Question:
As a new driver you will end up hearing all sorts of "pearls of wisdom" in the truck stops, at the docks, in your terminal break rooms, and on the CB. Some of this advice is going to be good, but some if it is going to be what I call trucker logic.....or in other words garbage.
Here are some examples of trucker logic that I have encountered at one point or another.
A driver doing more than 20 mph over the posted speed limit yelling at every one to get out of the center lane because they are holding him up and he couldn't use the far left lane because it was restricted. Guess he figured the speeding ticket would be better than a lane violation ticket. Hmmm I wonder what the fine would be for reckless driving in a big truck....especially a tanker hauling haz mat as this guy was. (15 over in a commercial vehicle is an automatic reckless driving offense)
A former co worker said he never scaled loads under 36,000 pounds because he couldn't afford the scale tickets. When asked how many over weight tickets he had had in the last year he said 5. The company reimbursed for all scale tickets but wouldn't pay anything on overwieght fines, and 75% of all loads this company hauled was under 25,000 pounds. I asked him how he figured saving $7.50 every month or so on average on scale tickets put more money in his pocket when he had to pay all those fines. He told me I just didnt get it.
Driver at dock: Reciever told him to drop his trailer and wait for it to be loaded because the dock it was going into was too tight for a road truck to get into. The yard driver would put it in the dock for him and bring it to him when it was done. Driver went out to truck and proceeded to try to put it in dock himself. He ended up damaging his truck and trailer and the truck in one dock next to him and another trailer in the dock on the other side. When asked why he didn't drop his trailer as told, his reply: "It was too much work".
Driver at truck stop griping about getting a ticket for doing 75 in a 60 mph zone in a truck governed at 65 mph. When asked how he got a ticket for 75 said he let it coast going down a big hill cause he didnt want to have to downshift coming up the other side.
Two drivers in truck stop talking at resteraunt counter. first one makes a comment about how he needed to cut back on his eating and get some more excercise because he was starting to put on weight. Second driver agreed enthusiastically with the first. Waitress comes up and takes the orders of drivers. Driver 1 orders a chefs salad. Driver 2 orders the all you can eat steak and says to bring him a triple order off the bat. Driver 1 says "Thought you said you wanted to loosse weight" Driver 2 says "Yeah I do. Thats why I didnt get the buffet."
As you can see from these examples trucker logic is a unique brand of thinking....if you can call it thinking. As I am fond in saying....Trucker Logic is enough to make a Vulcan commit suicide.
Only two things I know of are infinite. The universe and human stupidity, and I am not real sure about the universe.
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Seems like I've heard nearly all of those scenarios myself at one time or another.
You'd be surprised at some of the things trkrs come up with.
"Trucker Logic", gotta luv it!
While we're at it, let's not forget the Most "Infamous" of them Allll.....
I called the U.S. Marshalls out to the weigh station when the scale master tried to break the seal off my trlr....AND they showed up yeah, right.

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You are not lying. While I am still a wannabe, I listened to some of the "trucker logic".
The sad part is these people actually believe themselves.
The best one was the "U.S. Marshall" story one guy told us on the docks in Port Manatee. He told that tale like it was gospel. Nice fella, just living in another world after all those years on the road.
Geez...I hope that doesn't happen to me.......

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I heard a variation of the U.S. Marshal story at the Petro (I-75) in Florida this week. I bout fell off my chair trying to keep from laughing.

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The next time I hear the story about the scalemaster/DOT opening up the back of the truck that had the loose ping-pong balls in it... it ain't gonna be pretty!
"No reason to get excited," the thief he kindly spoke.
"There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke!
But you and I are different, and this is not our fate.
So let us not talk falsely now, the hours' getting late!" - Bob Dylan