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I decide to roll into the Petro at Effingham, my favorite of the chains. But that’s another story, and it never happened to me.
#Truck s lut driver#
The US government regulates how may hours a professional driver is allowed to drive in a given 24 hours period, you have to maintain a continuous rolling logbook clearly listing start location, stop location, time spent driving, miles driven, and hours not driving, subject to audit by the DOT at anytime. You get audited and are found in violation, your ass is grass.
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I decided to take a break for a bit, get some rest and let my hours roll over on my log before I hit the next stretch of road. As a major crossroads for over the road travel, with multiple main highways running through or nearby, at any given time hundreds if not thousands of trucks can be found parked amongst the lots with more trucks going in and out all the time. Minus the booze.Įffingham is a trucker mecca. These days, what with satellite phones and internet and cheap laptops and T1 connections to the truck, it truly is a good representation of college dorm life. You pop in, get a meal, take a shower, do your laundry, sit down and chill out watching a movie, hit the gym, and then back out to your truck for some sleep before hitting the road.
#Truck s lut movie#
The really big truck stops not only have the “free shower with fill up for truckers” that is pretty standard, but they’ve got movie theaters in the truck stop, TV rooms with stadium seating, massive video arcades and you name it.īasically, a big truck stop is kinda like a massive shared apartment where your roomates work different shifts.
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But you still want a nice meal, a shower, a place to relax and watch TV or movies, and socialise. Yeah, that’s right, after a long day of trucking most truckers sleep in their trucks, they don’t get motel rooms. Acres of parking lots around central trucker facilities, facilities so large they had their own movie theater for truckers, I think at the Petro. Oh well, whatever.īack then they had a Petro travel center, a Flying J, two of the biggest truck stop chains around, and a ton of smaller mom and pop outfits all around that area. What I’m saying is, you see a LOT of bad flannel and too tight tube tops over stretch shorts in flourescent colors. Perfectly placed along my path is the oasis of truck stop heaven known as Effingham, Illinois.Įffingham is to truck stops as Wal-Mart is to rednecks. I was heading on north through southern Illinois, heading generally towards Chicago, but my intention was to cut over towards and around Indianapolis before reaching the I-80 corridor and barrelling on through to my eventual destination, a pet food processing plant near Allentown, Pennsylvania. I was driving my skunk truck north, rolling along I-57 after having spent a hellish morning making deliveries and pickups in the back alleys of St. It was a fine, sunny summer day in Illinois. It remains in my mind as one of the biggest “WTF” moments of my life. On this lazy Friday I’d like to share one story in particular, a story that I can personally verify as having actually happened. I’ve got the ones that I personally saw or did and thought “WTF”, and then there are the ones that were told to me in truckstops by other truckers over a cup of coffee that sounded great, but who knows if they’re real or not? I’ve got two different types of trucker stories to share. CDL, 18 wheeler, the Bear with the most rolling along coast to coast.ĭuring those two years, a lot of things happened that could be blog fodder, if looked at in the right way. I’ve mentioned a few times here that I spent two years immediately after leaving the Marine Corps as a cross country truck driver.