Mark, keep on trucking.

[Glenda]

Mark when I was young my grandmother owned a small truck stop. I used to work serving coffee at a very young age to truck drivers. The truckers became my best friends. They were wonderful. They treated me like their own little daughter. When we traveled we would always follow a big truck at night because we knew if we broke down, he would stop to help us.

There are bad apples in the profession, just as there are in every profession. But people must know that trucks today are driven by professional men and women who have a lot more to sacrifice than you think. Being away from family on holidays for little pay has to be the worst.

Then there is the stress of driving a large vehicle that size all day every day, 11 hours a day to get to a destination, having problems unloading, getting loaded, getting stuck into traffic, etc.

I believe that ninety percent of truckers have families that they are far away from and are trying to support by doing this job. Next time you see a trucker, wave at him, show some appreciation for the long hours he puts in to everything you see and buy at the stores. Without trucks, America would stop.

 

[Mark Wagner]

Mark when I was young my grandmother owned a small truck stop. I used to work serving coffee at a very young age to truck drivers. The truckers became my best friends. They were wonderful. They treated me like their own little daughter. When we traveled we would always follow a big truck at night because we knew if we broke down, he would stop to help us.

There are bad apples in the profession, just as there are in every profession. But people must know that trucks today are driven by professional men and women who have a lot more to sacrifice than you think. Being away from family on holidays for little pay has to be the worst.

Then there is the stress of driving a large vehicle that size all day every day, 11 hours a day to get to a destination, having problems unloading, getting loaded, getting stuck into traffic, etc.

I believe that ninety percent of truckers have families that they are far away from and are trying to support by doing this job. Next time you see a trucker, wave at him, show some appreciation for the long hours he puts in to everything you see and buy at the stores. Without trucks, America would stop.

Hi Glenda,
That was very moving and I am so appreciative of your thoughts and words. I remember driving on Christmas Eve, and getting stuck in the mountains.

Talk about bummed. Earlier that morning, trying to get home from Oregon to Washington state, a family drove by and took the time to smile and wave, around Le Grande, OR. You cannot imagine how much that met to me. Funny, but after all these years I still remember that small act of thought fullness shown to me during the holiday. When I was stuck in my truck later that night in the snow on Snoqualimie Pass, in Washington State, another family whom heard me on the radio, brought dinner up to me. I finally got out of their, and ended up getting home if I remember around 6 or 7 in the morning Christmas Day. (my wife was upset, but glad I was alive)

Your right, there is good and bad. But it is hard to add to your words. Thanks again and I hope that those whom read this will ponder your thought the next time a truck comes rolling by.

Mark

 

[Ross]

Oh no, now your going to give him that "Big Giant Head" complex again.

Good Morning Mark!

 

[Mark Wagner]

That's right Ross!