lot of drivers

As I have mentioned I am or was a trucker, you know one of them fallers who drive the big rigs. Eighteen wheels a Rollin, sixty thousand pounds of steel and fright, headed down the highway. Your never home long, always alone, never at rest, just moving down the highway, praying that nothing gets in your way and they make it safely home, However thing do get I the way, from deer’s to trains, and people drives all kinds of vehicles’. Cars, motor cycles, bicycles and recreation vehicles’ all on the highways getting in the way. A trucker gets paid on average twenty eight cents per mile, some more and some less, but to get paid the wheels have to be Rollin.

Controlling one of those big rigs is not the easiest thing I have ever done. They take a quarter mile to stop; they won’t turn around a dime. Someone wrote as song about that called “Give me forty acres and I turn this rig around.” How driving one does have some perks, well you do drink a lot of coffee, and you do see a lot of the country. But the big problem is the traffic you come across. The week drivers of recreation vehicles, you see they don’t know they are big rigs too. They don’t know they can’t stop, or turn on a dime. They don’t know to change lanes or when to pull back into the lane. Now I drove what they call heavy haul, that’s hundred feet long, hundred five thousand pounds, and twenty eight wheels rolling down the road.  The one of the thing that will makes you that orifice down there by your tail bone get real tight and small, is to have some bone head with a truck load of kids, a twenty eight foot trailer, and a twenty four foot boat and trailer, trying to pass on a two lane road.  Their trucks breaks were design to stop the truck and maybe a trailer.

A commercial truck driver has to pass a written test and pass a driving test showing they know rules of the road and how to handle the big rig. Six month and five thousand dollars later they have earn a license to drive a big rig. The fellow that has not gone through the train and only drives a pickup around town is a danger to himself and all on the road when he tows a trailer.  For a big rig truck driver to drag more than one trailer he has to show he knows how and be certified.

It’s past the time that the state laws should be that a person that drives a combination of truck and trailers be required to pass a test and get an endorsement on their license to put a recreation vehicle on the road.

Thank you and god bless