Re: RC: RE: Fearless Travel

[Teddy Lancaster <Teddy@runningbear.com>]

Used to be you could trust a trucker like your own grandmother.  Now, there are a
ton of idiots out there.  Truckers USED to have a good reputation, they USED to be
courteous, they USED to help anyone on the road.

Now, they are ttrained poorly, get drivers licenses (CDL's) illegally, and know
nothing about the actual rig they are driving. I know, I've asked.

I travel America via truck-stops (I drive a Freightliner pulling a big horse
trailer with LQ).  They have changed, too.  Mostly blue collar idiots with foul
mouths.  I USED to rely on my CB, now it's a cell phone.  I USED to get truckers
to help with a flat tire, now I call 911.

Yes, my dogs have detered many...who know what difficulties they have protected me
from.  I will NOT travel without them.  I have my 357 (always loaded) but have
never used it (except in target practice).  But there is always the fera of it
being discovered by the cops.  I live in Ohio where there is NO such thing as a
gun permit.  Many states I travel through would NOT view my having a gun very
nicely.

30 years ago I hitch-hiked America and met tons of wonderful people.  Now, not
only would I not hitch-hike, I won't stop for anything other than another
horse-trailer to help.

To top it off, I just got my 1999 insurance renewal.  I have a 100% clean
record.....NO CLAIMS, accidents or ANYTHING, yet my insurance goes up and up to
pay for all those idiots...

We are losing what America was meant to be.....

Teddy

Bluebirdpr@aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 3/24/99 12:26:02 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> Teddy@runningbear.com writes:
>
> <<
>  I broke down (my  old DODGE truck years ago-fuel injector) on a mountain in
>  Arizona at sunset with a snowstorm coming (pulling a horse trailer to boot).
> at
>  least a dozen people stopped to help...I was wary (in the middle of nowhere)
> but
>  everyone was great.  When the highway partol finally found me, I had a LONG
>  conversation with the cop.  He said certain types of people are "victims" and
>  that I was not one of them.
>   >>
> My sister-in-law recently thought a tire was going flat on her horse trailer
> and pulled over on an interstate and was checking out the tires and a trucker
> pulled in behind her and walked up and asked if he could help.  She said she
> thought she had a tire going flat but realized it wasn't.  She opened the door
> to the dressing room to throw in a light she had been using and this truck
> driver tried to push her into the trailer.  Luckily she squirmed away from him
> and ran to the truck and jumped in and locked the doors and took off.  She now
> travels with a Rotty and a Jack Russell.  It scarred her to death.  You can
> never be too sure.  I absolutely will not let my wife go on a long trip
> without our dogs if I can't go.  I don't blame any women who travels by
> themselves for showing up at a ride with a companion dog.  Any you are right
> Teddy, guns will only get you in trouble and possibly get you killed if the
> intruder takes it away from you.


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