Keep On Truckin (720 hits)
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Submitted by RoadSong (View user info) at 2009-06-30 14:27:37 EDT
Truckers have names they use on Citizen Band Radio.
Here are:
Blueman
Tail Gunner
Tu-che Turtle
Glocker
Tin Man
ToxicRunner
El Satan
One of these men was in New Orleans when the levee's broke. He swam to save his mother and then went back for many others. He says that swimming while wearing tennis shoes is hard. FEMA sent him to truckdriving school.
One of these men has spent a lifetime running from his past. Seems he went fishing and capsized his craft, and faked his death leaving his wife and kids with a large insurance policy.
One of these men was distinguished in battle.
Here is El Satan-reputed to have horns under his hat and a tail inside his pants.
ToxicRunner contracts to dispose of the most hideous experiments and substances, if he told me what he hauled he would have to kill me.
One is a polygamist with 3 wives and a houseful of kids.
Here is a man who ripped the door off of a burning wreck with his bare hands to snatch a child out of it's carseat.
If not for these drivers and the thousands like them, this nation would wake up some morning with no:
cheerios
diapers
beef
beer
toilet paper
milk
medicine
The store shelves would be skimpy within 24 hours, empty soon after.
Chaos.
Drivers I salute you!
Keep on Truckin!
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Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2009-07-02 05:54:41 EDT (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by RoadSong (user info) at 2009-07-02 03:38:36 EDT (#)
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Submitted by joedaddy (user info) at 2009-07-02 00:11:08 PDT (#)
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Submitted by X54 (user info) at 2009-07-02 01:39:35 EDT (#)
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The only thing I hate about truckers is when they pull into the fast lane right in front of me to pass another truck and then take forever and I have to slow way down.
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that's illegal in cali, they're not supposed to be in "hot-lane" ever
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joedaddy?
Why am I not surprized at you. You know all KINDS of stuff and things.
Submitted by RoadSong (user info) at 2009-07-02 03:34:18 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Ducky (user info) at 2009-07-01 23:55:33 PDT (#)
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This is Jack Burton in the Pork Chop Express, and I'm talkin' to whoever's listenin' out there.
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Well 10-4 good buddy!
Submitted by joedaddy (user info) at 2009-07-02 03:11:08 EDT (#)
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Submitted by X54 (user info) at 2009-07-02 01:39:35 EDT (#)
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The only thing I hate about truckers is when they pull into the fast lane right in front of me to pass another truck and then take forever and I have to slow way down.
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that's illegal in cali, they're not supposed to be in "hot-lane" ever
Submitted by Ducky (user info) at 2009-07-02 02:55:33 EDT (#)
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This is Jack Burton in the Pork Chop Express, and I'm talkin' to whoever's listenin' out there.
Submitted by RoadSong (user info) at 2009-07-02 01:45:16 EDT (#)
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Concerning "El Satan".
It sounds like this when he says it: El Say-Tahn' . It is important to him how the name is pronounced. I have kept in touch with a couple of these road dogs.
Submitted by X54 (user info) at 2009-07-02 01:39:35 EDT (#)
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The only thing I hate about truckers is when they pull into the fast lane right in front of me to pass another truck and then take forever and I have to slow way down.
Submitted by RoadSong (user info) at 2009-07-01 21:07:54 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Merlina (user info) at 2009-07-01 12:47:53 PDT (#)
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I wan to be a trucker
THE TRUCKINATOR
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That is a perfect "handle" for you!
Submitted by Merlina (user info) at 2009-07-01 15:47:53 EDT (#)
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I wan to be a trucker
THE TRUCKINATOR
Submitted by SullyThePirate (user info) at 2009-07-01 14:34:10 EDT (#)
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Eastbound & Down is fine television programming.
Submitted by forensicgirl3 (user info) at 2009-07-01 14:32:07 EDT (#)
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Submitted by HellRazer (user info) at 2009-07-01 13:14:53 CDT (#)
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EAST BOUND AND DOWN
LOADED UP AND TRUCKIN'
WE GONNA DO WHAT THEY SAY CAN'T BE DONE
WE GOT A LONG WAY TO GO
AND A SHORT TIME TO GET THERE
SO PUT THOSE EARS ON AND RUN BANDIT RUN!!!
Good luck getting that one out of your head today. :)
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That was the first thing that popped into my mind when I saw this post.
Submitted by RoadSong (user info) at 2009-07-01 14:21:08 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Jack_McCallum (user info) at 2009-07-01 08:00:07 PDT (#)
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I wish I had the balls to do this - walk up to complete strangers and get their photos. These are great. How do you do it? Seriously. Just ask?
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The enchanted and the insane live somewhere between the borderlands of this world and the other. There is no reasonable answer for your question, but I have never once been turned down with a polite request to talk and take photos.{this includes my "body art" portfolio}
Example. A few days ago there was a post on this site titled "Summer Reading". There was a Christopher Moore book mentioned with a photo of his book. I started thinking about how much I liked books Mr. Moore wrote, "Coyote Blue" being my favorite. I Emailed a query to Mr. Moore right after I read the Uber post and requested that I be granted a interview. He replied "When and where?". I wrote him back and asked him if he would like to come to the TV studio or if he wanted me to come to San Francisco to film. He replied that he was jetting to Seattle in a day or so to present some sci-fi awards and he would be going on tour this winter. I was to be leaving for an extended road trip to pick up some ponies in Kentucky, so when his tour schedule permits, we will do the interview. You may know Mr. Moore, as he lives in your area.
These days I make short films to be broadcast as half hour segments on ComCast CH8, and that gives me some street cred. They treat me wonderfully well and I get to pick my own assignments and have use of their wonderful cameras and mics.
The photos here of these truckers were taken several years ago, and who knows why they would take time out of their schedules to tell me the stories of their lives right down to the illegal details. One reason may be that I am interested, really interested in people and the world around me. Also I pay attention. I have always been the curious sort, and I am honest when I make requests. There is a child like quality in my eyes {http://www.ubersite.com/m/122006} and I see things with wonder and delight. Perhaps flatlining as a child really did change the way my brain processes things...
It helps that I am not the kind that thinks she knows everything. When I first posted here, I payed attention to people who pointed out my lackacommas and my nospacing blocks of text. I appriciate when someone takes the time to help me be a better person, or a better writer, or assists me in any way.
In closing, it is said in Kentucky that I have "more nerve than Jesse James".
ps
Tu-che Turtle is spelled wrong. He is Touche' Turtle and it was him who was in New Orleans when the levee's broke. He is in frame 9 of this collage. He saved many lives that terrible day.
Submitted by HellRazer (user info) at 2009-07-01 14:14:53 EDT (#)
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EAST BOUND AND DOWN
LOADED UP AND TRUCKIN'
WE GONNA DO WHAT THEY SAY CAN'T BE DONE
WE GOT A LONG WAY TO GO
AND A SHORT TIME TO GET THERE
SO PUT THOSE EARS ON AND RUN BANDIT RUN!!!
Good luck getting that one out of your head today. :)
Submitted by haikumikoo (user info) at 2009-07-01 11:42:36 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Jack_McCallum (user info) at 2009-07-01 08:31:21 PDT (#)
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Submitted by haikumikoo (user info) at 2009-07-01 11:05:27 EDT (#)
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Roadsong is a woman, I'm guessing that helps. I would probably let her take my picture if for some odd reason she asked me. If some creepy ginger guy in his 40s wearing a leather jacket with greasy long hair asked me?
I'd run.
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YOu'd be easy to find.
"Hey, I'm lookin for someone. Tall. Thin. Like, cadaver thin. Head like a tombstone."
"He went that way."
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You're mostly right, but their response would probably be more like, "Oh, that guy? He's probably drunk, pissing and throwing things off his balcony again."
Submitted by EmissionImpossible (user info) at 2009-07-01 11:32:56 EDT (#)
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EI Satan!!!
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Submitted by Jack_McCallum (user info) at 2009-07-01 11:31:21 EDT (#)
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Submitted by haikumikoo (user info) at 2009-07-01 11:05:27 EDT (#)
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Roadsong is a woman, I'm guessing that helps. I would probably let her take my picture if for some odd reason she asked me. If some creepy ginger guy in his 40s wearing a leather jacket with greasy long hair asked me?
I'd run.
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YOu'd be easy to find.
"Hey, I'm lookin for someone. Tall. Thin. Like, cadaver thin. Head like a tombstone."
"He went that way."
Submitted by DrogoRoch (user info) at 2009-07-01 11:12:44 EDT (#)
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See now I am just looking at them trying to guess who is who.
Submitted by haikumikoo (user info) at 2009-07-01 11:05:27 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Jack_McCallum (user info) at 2009-07-01 08:00:07 PDT (#)
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I wish I had the balls to do this - walk up to complete strangers and get their photos. These are great. How do you do it? Seriously. Just ask?
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Roadsong is a woman, I'm guessing that helps. I would probably let her take my picture if for some odd reason she asked me. If some creepy ginger guy in his 40s wearing a leather jacket with greasy long hair asked me?
I'd run.
Submitted by Jack_McCallum (user info) at 2009-07-01 11:02:55 EDT (#)
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Submitted by no1hasdis (user info) at 2009-06-30 14:49:14 EDT (#)
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My grandfather is a trucker. He is now 76, and still drives rigs as well as temp jobs running construction equipment.
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Wow. Sounds like a cool old dude. Were you like, adopted or something?
Submitted by Jack_McCallum (user info) at 2009-07-01 11:00:07 EDT (#)
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I wish I had the balls to do this - walk up to complete strangers and get their photos. These are great. How do you do it? Seriously. Just ask?
Submitted by TuTs (user info) at 2009-07-01 07:58:42 EDT (#)
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I like your photos.
Submitted by Lib (user info) at 2009-06-30 20:34:47 EDT (#)
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Submitted by joedaddy (user info) at 2009-06-30 18:08:57 EDT (#)
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during a few summers, i drove a 4X4 KW and a 4X5 Pete with never less than 100k GW of tomatoes
i always managed to drive around the scales and was lucky enough to miss the "porta" ones
hurry and wait, hurry and wait...good times
Submitted by RoadSong (user info) at 2009-06-30 17:23:07 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Ballare (user info) at 2009-06-30 13:50:24 PDT (#)
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http://pbfcomics.com/archive_b/PBF189-Keep_on_Truckin.jpg
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Hey thanks! I copied this one.
Submitted by RoadSong (user info) at 2009-06-30 17:18:11 EDT (#)
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Submitted by nitty34 (user info) at 2009-06-30 13:52:15 PDT (#)
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Does being a journalist entitle one to write in 4 different tenses?
Here we have your rating:
-2
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PHOTO journalist? Hey, I only know "before" and "after".
I was happy BEFORE, I am contemplating tenses AFTER you have mentioned them.
I really did spend a lot of time taking these photos and listening to the stories of these truckers...
Sunburned my lizard skin and everything. Got rats in my big hair and dirt inside my high heeled sneakers. My wrists changed colors because of those cheap bangle bracelets from WalMart, and my eyes felt all gravel gritty.
I had fun and I made a friend or two which is nice because I have been known to drive long haul and I have a C.B. in my rig.
Is that 11 long haired "Friends of Jesus" ridin in a chartruese mini bus?
Submitted by icarus1987 (user info) at 2009-06-30 17:04:10 EDT (#)
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High heeled sneakers, bangels and big hair... huh. You could be from an 80's hair band. Oryou could just be female. The two are hard to tell apart sometimes.
Submitted by nitty34 (user info) at 2009-06-30 16:52:15 EDT (#)
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Does being a journalist entitle one to write in 4 different tenses?
Here we have your rating:
-2
Submitted by Ballare (user info) at 2009-06-30 16:50:24 EDT (#)
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http://pbfcomics.com/archive_b/PBF189-Keep_on_Truckin.jpg
Submitted by RoadSong (user info) at 2009-06-30 16:43:05 EDT (#)
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Submitted by scourge (user info) at 2009-06-30 13:22:31 PDT (#)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYS0Epyyu3k
here you go, fruitcake.
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I have always loved this one! Thanks. I subscribed and left a video comment.{must be approved}Scratchy vinyl, ya gotta love it.
I would prefer "cupcake", but "fruitcake" will do.
Submitted by monkeyswithguns (user info) at 2009-06-30 16:25:31 EDT (#)
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Just keep in mind many truckers are also full of shit. That being said, they do an enormously under-rated, under-paid, and over-dangerous job, that we literally depend upon for survival, therefore I second your motion.
Submitted by scourge (user info) at 2009-06-30 16:22:31 EDT (#)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYS0Epyyu3k
here you go, fruitcake.
Submitted by SullyThePirate (user info) at 2009-06-30 16:03:18 EDT (#)
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+2 because I just got an email in my spam folder from someone calling himself "Earl Skinder."
Its title poeticly read, "Who can resist buying a cheap, unbroken classy watch!"
No one, Earl. No one.
Submitted by RoadSong (user info) at 2009-06-30 15:51:04 EDT (#)
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Submitted by messmind (user info) at 2009-06-30 12:47:27 PDT (#)
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Submitted by SullyThePirate (user info) at 2009-06-30 15:36:42 EDT (#)
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You're really weird.
I CAN DIG IT.
But it needs more warped thinking.
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More warped than a snake in the pants? How bout a weedeater in the Fruit of The Looms?
Submitted by messmind (user info) at 2009-06-30 15:47:27 EDT (#)
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Submitted by SullyThePirate (user info) at 2009-06-30 15:36:42 EDT (#)
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You're really weird.
I CAN DIG IT.
But it needs more warped thinking.
Submitted by SullyThePirate (user info) at 2009-06-30 15:36:42 EDT (#)
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You're really weird.
I CAN DIG IT.
Submitted by skrapmetal (user info) at 2009-06-30 15:10:39 EDT (#)
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My first Uber post was about a truck driver.
Weird.
Not really, though.
Submitted by RoadSong (user info) at 2009-06-30 15:07:53 EDT (#)
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Submitted by no1hasdis (user info) at 2009-06-30 11:49:14 PDT (#)
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My grandfather is a trucker. He is now 76, and still drives rigs as well as temp jobs running construction equipment.
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That is amazing and cool. Tell your grandfather a lizard with a tape recorder and a camera says hi!
heh
Your grandfather is not Toxic Runner is he?
Submitted by rob_berg (user info) at 2009-06-30 15:05:21 EDT (#)
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wow
there
was
some
crazy
spacing
going
on
up
there
Submitted by Doodles (user info) at 2009-06-30 14:59:58 EDT (#)
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you are not a journalist.
Don't lie to yourself.
you're hardly better than bubba.
Submitted by no1hasdis (user info) at 2009-06-30 14:49:14 EDT (#)
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My grandfather is a trucker. He is now 76, and still drives rigs as well as temp jobs running construction equipment.
Submitted by RoadSong (user info) at 2009-06-30 14:48:00 EDT (#)
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Submitted by sicosemen (user info) at 2009-06-30 11:32:49 PDT (#)
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You're a lot lizard, aren't you?
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Was it El Satan with the snake in his pants that tipped you off?
heh
Hell no I am not a lot lizard. I am a journalist?
woo
I interviewed and photographed these truckers.{people will tell their secrets if they think they will never see you again}
I must admit that some of them thought me to be a lizard at first when I came up to them at the truck stops with my high heeled sneakers and bangles, big smile and big hair.
Submitted by FATMANTPK (user info) at 2009-06-30 14:47:26 EDT (#)
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Where are Rubber Duck and PigPen?
Submitted by Bubba2341 (user info) at 2009-06-30 14:41:36 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2009-06-30 14:39:09 EDT (#)
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THIS WAS SUCH AN ENTERTAINING POST- SO MUCH SO THAT I JUST POOPED MYSELF.
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That's why your wife gets you those Depends.
"If you bought it, a truck brought it."
Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2009-06-30 14:39:09 EDT (#)
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THIS WAS SUCH AN ENTERTAINING POST- SO MUCH SO THAT I JUST POOPED MYSELF.
Submitted by sicosemen (user info) at 2009-06-30 14:32:49 EDT (#)
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You're a lot lizard, aren't you?