Post by Mahnarch on Jan 5, 2008 6:39:28 GMT -5
Ha. I've been driving for my company for just about 2 years now and my mum finally got to see what her boy does all day.
This was also her first time riding in a tractor-trailer.
A few notes from her experience:
She has the hots for my boss. (He has beautifull eyes, apparantly.)
She's never taken three steps to get up into a vehicle.
She's never seen a street sign at eye level before.
"WOW!! You can see right down into those cars!!"
"Why is everyone so short, here?" (forgot she was sitting 7ft in the air)
"What's that noise?'' (12ft exhaust stack right outside her window)
"I'll share your fries". (we stopped at McD's for lunch)
"WHOA! That guy was close! (typical 'guy cuts off semi on hi-way)
Ma learned all about why it takes a Semi so long to get moving from a stop.
She also learned how ticked off a Semi driver gets when he's casually/slowly approaching/timing out a red light and a bunch of cars cut in front of him, causing a traffic bunch up.
And, why Semi's don't like to stop at 4-way stop signs.
She also learned that if she's sitting at a stop sign and a Semi stops in the middle of the road with a blinker pointed at her, she better get the heck out of the way.
At the end of the day, if my mum pulled anything out of the experience it's a new respect for what Semi drivers have to put up with on a daily basis and she's seen what the road looks like from a different perspective.
She knows what different light flashing signals mean.
She knows that: if all the trucks start acting like boy scouts, to expect something is up.
She even learned how to respect trucks as she's trying to enter the highway.
All in all, if not just a good day spent with her son, she learned quite a few lessons that every driver should: why trucks HAVE to buttonhook intersections. Why trucks HAVE to wait and block traffic.
How ice affects how a trailer pushes a tractor when the combination comes to an intersection (the trailer will push a tractor out of the way if the ice is severe enough)[Ma saw it at 5mph in a parking lot, though as I demonstrated - just increase it to 30mph for the right effect]
She also got to hear what an air horn sound like from the inside of the cab (I honked at a co-worker [not quite as loud on the inside as out])
***
Overall, my mom loved the ride and if I get a run out of state she wants to ride along, again.
Only, she want's to have more CB time but, she needs a 'handle'.
Any help?
She's all of 5f 4i 85lbs and loves hunting and camping.
She's basically a little 'guy'.
Not afraid of blood.
Can start a fire from little more than leaves and twigs.
Can gut a deer.
If a plane load of 'manly men' and her crashed in the woods, she'd be the only reason they'd all survive.
She's also a bottle blonde....OOOHH!!! Not supposed to say that!
My ma taught me to drive a manual transmission car and to shoot a gun.
Any handle ideas, not taken from movies?
[my dad was a third shifter most of my life. I saw him on weekends and during hunting season's 2 weeks of deer camp once a year.
Not a 'bad dad', just a sleepy, hard working one......just wanted to throw that in there.]
This was also her first time riding in a tractor-trailer.
A few notes from her experience:
She has the hots for my boss. (He has beautifull eyes, apparantly.)
She's never taken three steps to get up into a vehicle.
She's never seen a street sign at eye level before.
"WOW!! You can see right down into those cars!!"
"Why is everyone so short, here?" (forgot she was sitting 7ft in the air)
"What's that noise?'' (12ft exhaust stack right outside her window)
"I'll share your fries". (we stopped at McD's for lunch)
"WHOA! That guy was close! (typical 'guy cuts off semi on hi-way)
Ma learned all about why it takes a Semi so long to get moving from a stop.
She also learned how ticked off a Semi driver gets when he's casually/slowly approaching/timing out a red light and a bunch of cars cut in front of him, causing a traffic bunch up.
And, why Semi's don't like to stop at 4-way stop signs.
She also learned that if she's sitting at a stop sign and a Semi stops in the middle of the road with a blinker pointed at her, she better get the heck out of the way.
At the end of the day, if my mum pulled anything out of the experience it's a new respect for what Semi drivers have to put up with on a daily basis and she's seen what the road looks like from a different perspective.
She knows what different light flashing signals mean.
She knows that: if all the trucks start acting like boy scouts, to expect something is up.
She even learned how to respect trucks as she's trying to enter the highway.
All in all, if not just a good day spent with her son, she learned quite a few lessons that every driver should: why trucks HAVE to buttonhook intersections. Why trucks HAVE to wait and block traffic.
How ice affects how a trailer pushes a tractor when the combination comes to an intersection (the trailer will push a tractor out of the way if the ice is severe enough)[Ma saw it at 5mph in a parking lot, though as I demonstrated - just increase it to 30mph for the right effect]
She also got to hear what an air horn sound like from the inside of the cab (I honked at a co-worker [not quite as loud on the inside as out])
***
Overall, my mom loved the ride and if I get a run out of state she wants to ride along, again.
Only, she want's to have more CB time but, she needs a 'handle'.
Any help?
She's all of 5f 4i 85lbs and loves hunting and camping.
She's basically a little 'guy'.
Not afraid of blood.
Can start a fire from little more than leaves and twigs.
Can gut a deer.
If a plane load of 'manly men' and her crashed in the woods, she'd be the only reason they'd all survive.
She's also a bottle blonde....OOOHH!!! Not supposed to say that!
My ma taught me to drive a manual transmission car and to shoot a gun.
Any handle ideas, not taken from movies?
[my dad was a third shifter most of my life. I saw him on weekends and during hunting season's 2 weeks of deer camp once a year.
Not a 'bad dad', just a sleepy, hard working one......just wanted to throw that in there.]
