Question:
"As a new driver the most important thing you need to know when you are on the road is, your map is your only friend. The dispatcher, he sits at a 100MPH desk. You have a 60MPH truck. The terminal Manager, he has a 150MPH desk, you still have a 60MPH truck. The Safety Director what can I say he is from New York. The Fleet Manager and shop supervisors, they think they own the trucks and it is all your entire fault if you breakdown, regardless of the reason.
The broker's, they set up the delivery appointments for your freight two days before you even get the load and want it there at 0800 tomorrow, regardless of the distance. Shippers and receivers, they want to overload you, give you confusing directions and make you wait and wait and wait and......Other truck drivers,they double park at truck stops just so you cant maneuver. The motoring public, they cut you off, flip you off and tick you off.
Your only friend is your map. Be kind to your map. Fold it gently. Hold it lightly. Get intimate with your map. Know every line and symbol and number. Spend time with your map. Good maps are the second best investment you can make after you have allotted the max % of your pay to the 401K plan. When a map has reached the end of its useful life, ceremoniously and humanely dispose ot it. Then get a new one. Remember, Your map is your friend."

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remember no drinking at least 12 hours prior to driving.......getting close to last call aint it??
CD
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Please go to chat CD!!

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I dont know. I am hoping that I will be released by the backing trainer to get going. I feel very much in limbo right now. I would like a day or 2 longer to practice. But I want on the road also. Hell give me my truck and I will move trailers till a load can be had. But get me out of her truck and into mine!

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Originally posted by Bearbell:
Get intimate with your map.
Well, I don't know if I'd go that far, you know,,,there's other ways to find intimacey,

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LOL I can not take credit for thinking this up. But when I read it this afternoon I got a smile out of it.

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Bearbell, I know what you mean. The map can be a very important thing in the arsenal of a truck driver. That was cute though, I like the way you described caring for your map.

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A good friend will lie for you.
A best friend will help you bury the body...
Dave Wadsworth
'wombat'
dwew@montana.com
There's no sense in worring about it, Nothing is going to turn out OK.

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It wasnt me that thought this one up. It is actually in my companies training manuel..

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Perhaps whoever wrote your companies manual was lonely. HAHAHA sorry had to add that in. What is intimacy, oh yeah something you get once year on New Year's. A big wet smootch!!!
Sweet Whiskey