Reply #44: Pal, I drove over-the road for twenty bloody years. I know the business, ok?

[A HERETIC I AM]

I have dealt with truck drivers of all stripes for a very long time and I'm telling you, this is not going to happen on a large enough scale to be noticed.

As I said in my post, they are expressing a sentiment that is widely held but there is no national organization to the truck drivers in this country. The talk will go on, it will get heated and animated but the likelihood of a major, National shutdown is minuscule.


Regarding the movie "Convoy" - it has been seen by truckers as a joke for decades. The over usage of the expression "Good Buddy" in that movie and it's subsequent over usage by the general public has given it a derogatory and pejorative connotation in the industry. Call a truck driver a "Good Buddy" face to face and you're likely to get smacked. Plus, the idea that the CB Radio is somehow this nationwide communication system is ridiculous. If a driver tried to pass a message down the road further than his radio transmits - about 10 miles on average - he has ZERO expectation that the message will be delivered by other drivers, further on down the line. That concept espoused in the movie you mentioned is poppycock and has no basis in reality. There might be similar conversations going on at the same time around the country, but there is abosolutely no national dialogue between truckers on ANYTHING.

"Convoy" did not accurately reflect truckers and trucking any more than "Knight Rider" reflected secret Government programs.