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From: carlc@teklabs.UUCP (Carl Clawson )
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: [some] Truckers ARE nice people !!!
Message-ID: <2773@teklabs.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 26-Mar-84 18:40:43 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 26 18:40:43 1984
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**** is this the line that gets eaten? or was it the last one? ****

Oh yeah?  Well I don't exactly drive a semi but I do drive
(with great pleasure, I might add) a 70's vintage two-and-a-half
ton (curb weight) Chevy truck.  From this, I have gleaned insight into what
a giant pain it must be to drive a semi.  Everywhere I drive, idiots
in their little death-boxes are swerving in and out of traffic,
cutting people off, tailgating, and just generally driving in an
unsafe, obnoxious manner.  They don't even realize that you just
can't cut in in front of a large vehicle and slam on the brakes
with any expectation that he can stop as fast as you can.

In the case of trucks carrying hazardous materials, did it ever
occur to you that the juice your little death-box drinks so daintily
has to be carried to your neighborhood gas station by such vehicles?
And that the driver has a terribly hard time keeping track of
all the crazoids in their datsuns who are swerving madly in his
vicinity?

My gas-guzzler may be slow, but I like it because when one of
you cuts in front of me and slams on the brakes, I don't even want
to feel the crunch.  My regrets will be less for the nasty blot
you leave on the pavement than for the nasty blot you leave on
my driving record.

Long live the two ton gas guzzler!