Craziest Truck Story

I saw a guy who had a parrot. He also had bird poop on Hi back because he let the parrot perch on his shoulder!

I've seen 5 Indian guys in a single truck pulling containers from Elwood to the rail yard 20ish miles away
they were all drivers

was in a shop in Indiana 3 non English speaking guys came in they were all in the same truck
the mechanic finally figured out they wanted him to look at something under it
he was under there about a minute and came out mad and made them
leave they had sawed a hole in the floor of the sleeper and made a road commode

For some reason someone was carrying a pallet of 20 oz. plastic bottles of soda pop on a flatbed trailer behind a pick-up. The pallet tipped over at an intersection and the bottles were shooting off like missiles as they were being run over. (Memphis).

A dumb-ass driver on e-logs was parked in the end spot at a rest area, legitimate spot, but not enough room to get past him. He wouldn't move because he was out of hours. I swear! I backed out and the cops were confronting him as I went by. ( I/74 Indiana).

A used machinery hauler must have missed the warning signs about width in some bridge construction and wedged his combine (tires) between the concrete barrier walls. I watched as he jacked and blocked and jacked and blocked until it was free. Then back out. Probably 200-300 yards. No kidding. I was impressed. Made me wonder if he had done it before. (PA Turnpike).

We may all be eating catfood soon if the market keeps going down.

When Hwy 5 finally opened.. There wasnt much out there.. .actually very little. At the Collinga turn off there was a gas station and a roach coach.. Where you could get something to eat and drink.. One day a bunch of drivers came in not saying hi or anything as they walked past.. Right to the bathroom at the gas station.. When they came back and got a cup of coffee they started to talk... About the camel caravan going along near the freeway.. Started to compaire notes.. And they all ran back to the garbage can in the bathroom where they thought they got some bad stuuff and were hallucinating about the camels.. And had thrown their stash in the garbage... In reality there was a movie set shooting a desert movie... And they had a bunch of camels on the set.. Camels in California?

Sure sounds like it..

I drove an old B Mack a few trips with hot mix asphalt. The truck wouldn't go fast enough on the route to outrun the heat from the hot mix. It would fry you, obviously pre A/C. One of the trips I took off from a stop light in the middle of nowhere and a hitchhiker walked along side of me and asked for a ride. I said no and he replied that he could probably out run me anyway.

Art Pfluger

Trucks I wish I could find
Early 70's 4300 IH
Early 70's 4070B cab
Early 70's KW
Seeing how we are wishin I would like them to have either a 3408 Cat or a KTA motor or a V12 detroit.

One last wish a Mack Superliner with a V8 Mack

Lmao! I was wondering how long it would take you to fire back on my Volvo trashing! I agree 100% with why you run them. Same reason I'm so hesitant to stick a hired driver in anything of mine, I try to take a little pride in my ride, fix everything in house when things break(it has moving parts- it has to break/wear out at some point) but when stuff gets torn up or broke from a lack of caring I would struggle with maintaining my composure.

my son-in-law has a superliner v8 blown motor.i think he will sell it for the rite price. also there is a few early int.4070's in the weeds in md. pa.& nj. i will talk to my son-in-law if any body is interested.

well there is 5 on truckpaper right now

scott ya'll have some old hay balers in your yard now don't you , I know ya'll used to have a couple.

lol , i call internationals hay balers, actually high speed hay balers or cornfield corvettes , or 13 letter shit slingers. all in fun though , i made many miles in a 4070 , a 4300 , and a 9670

You asked for a crazy truck story: It was 1980 something and I was hauling office furniture to an insurance company in Colorado Springs. I was scheduled to arrive at the end of the workday when the building was nearly vacant and meet a crew who would off-load my truck and carry the desks, file cabinets and chairs all inside while at the same time removing the old stuff. This meant a lot of labor and a crew of 10 or 12 men. The wages for this crew were to be paid in cash by me. The hourly rate according to the contract was $15.60 per hour, paid to the hauler.
I was carrying too much cash to feel comfortable, I know that. I had every intention of paying those guys $15.60 an hour. But it didn’t turn out that way. Seems they had decided in advance to demand what they thought was fair. The guys all arrived together and were from the same moving agency. Before I had a chance to say much of anything, the apparent leader of the group, a broad-shouldered, bald-headed man who looked like he might be a wrestler in his other job squared off in front of me, with the rest of the crew fanned out behind him like that old football formation they called the Flying Wedge.
If only he had started with a polite question. Instead the man looked me straight in the eye and said, “Driver, you’re going to pay us $10 an hour. He waited for my response which took me a few moments. Dropping my eyes in submission and strangling my smile, I mumbled weakly, “all right.”
I could see the nods and pats-on-the-back the guys gave him as they set to work.
Those guys worked hard and the work went smoothly. I guess because they felt like they owed it to me after pushing me around the way they did. Like I said there were a dozen guys and so I cleared around $400 on the labor that evening.

That's a good one! I can picture the biker bunch from the movie "Every Which Way But Loose".

giggity giggity....

Joanna i don't know about your loads but in general most times a short load doesn't pay enough to fool with. Too much time gets involved

Brokers need love too, they just got to pay.