Happy Thanksgiving Ya'll!

Thank goodness we have some traditions left. I'm not a Christian, but please let's save the "real" Christmas. There is nothing wrong with
"Merry Christmas", Christmas (not holiday) trees and front lawn displays of the Christ child in the manger with loads of Christmas lights along with Santa and his reindeer. Throw in 9 candles (8 plus one for good luck) for Hanukkah and it's a real holiday. OTR truck drivers work their butts off - hopefully you're home and enjoying a hearty turkey dinner with your family and friends. Bless you all and enjoy the season. Happy Thanksgiving and Merry Christmas to all our readers.

GARY IN

Just re powered a load here at the FJ off I80/I94. It seems the other driver had to get back to Michigan for the opening of the deer hunting season. I thought he wanted to get home early for Thanksgiving. Apparently not. Well, I just don't get it. He said he was hoping it would snow so he could track the wounded deer with all the blood it leaves. And this is fun? Deer in his mind are 125 lb. rats that need to be controlled. He thinks of them as a menace. On the radio this morning someone talked about deer and lime disease. Kill all the deer they said. I certainly see a lot of dead deer on the side of the road. But in my mind, it is still a beautiful animal. That's what's new from Gary, IN. The deer photo is from the web site http://www.travel2canada.com/

Veterans Day

Are you off? I'm not. The majority of Americans aren't. No weigh stations open. "They" have the day off. Many folks don't even know it's a "holiday" - a day for remembrance and thanks. I can't do much for our Veteran's driving on the shitty 55mph Illinois interstate headed to Indianapolis. I've done nothing but drive for the last four weeks since leaving the house. No days off. That's my job. I'll take Thanksgiving off and maybe Christmas. Thanks Vets, but we ALL need to have the day off.

What was this idiot thinking?

Duane "Dog" Chapman: I don't care if she's a Mexican, a whore or whatever. It's not because she's black, it's because we use the word nigger sometimes here. I'm not gonna take a chance ever in life of losing everything I've worked for for 30 years because some fucking nigger heard us say nigger and turned us in to the Enquirer magazine. Our career is over! I'm not taking that chance at all! Never in life! Never! Never! If Lyssa [Dog's daughter] was dating a nigger, we would all say 'fuck you!' And you know that. If Lyssa brought a black guy home ya da da... it's not that they're black, it's none of that. It's that we use the word nigger. We don't mean you fucking scum nigger without a soul. We don't mean that shit. But America would think we mean that. And we're not taking a chance on losing everything we got over a racial slur because our son goes with a girl like that. I can't do that Tucker. You can't expect Gary, Bonnie, Cecily, all them young kids to [garbled] because 'I'm in love for 7 months' - fuck that! So, I'll help you get another job but you can not work here unless you break up with her and she's out of your life. I can't handle that shit. I got 'em in the parking lot trying to record us. I got that girl saying she's gonna wear a recorder... "

What all female truck drivers...

need to do is get in shape. I have never seen so many disgusting women in all my life. Less than 1% of you are even minimally acceptable. Forget what guys look like - all men look like crap. But, you women, you've been given a gift from the creator - please stop abusing it. In the last three days, I have seen some of the most horrible looking females. Do these women ever look in a mirror? It's not just the weight - there are plenty of beautiful "heavy" women out there - but the unwashed grey hair, the dingy clothes, the missing teeth, the smoking, the triple chins and muffin tops sprouting over the dirty sweats - horrible! I did a double take at some truly ugly broad stuffed into a chair watching the TV at a FJ. Until I started driving a truck I had only seen women like this in NYC who were homeless, living out of a shopping cart in the streets. Please ladies, get your collective act together. Make America beautiful, get a makeover, go to a dentist and for goodness sakes, wear a bra that fits.

So is this where we're headed?

Stephen Flynn in the November 2007 issue of Popular Mechanics: "According to the latest figures from the Federal Highway Administration, 152,480 bridges, or just over one-quarter of the country's total, are either structurally deficient or functionally obsolete. Our new face to the world is increasingly one of a superpower that is rotting from within. Our electricity comes to us through a decade-old system of power generators, transformers and transmission lines - a system that has utility executives holding their collective breath on every hot day in July and August. Our transportation system, once the envy of the world, is now known for congested highways, second-rate ports, third rate passenger trains and a primitive air traffic control system." The photo is from the movie Planet of the Apes - it is the last scene in the movie and shows the remains of the Statue of Liberty.