I Think We Can Do Better. Who's Up To The Challenge?

Love ya Mamma Anne! Yeah your right about this site and I will ALWAYS love this site and community for what we have here and Brett Aquila is an incredible man and leader well as others in the moderators. Never did I think I would find a site that told as much reality and truth as this community! So yes I am thankful and grateful.

I agree and dont. I see Realdiehl's point because if a new person who has been told a bunch of lyes as facts comes in here and then states what they think is the obvious, and then some in here jumps on them, I can see where they would think that just confirms what the others are saying because of the defensiveness and then on top of that, it would also or could turn them away from driving altogether because who wants to deal with impatient people when they are just inquiring about something or stating what they have been told or experienced? No one. I think I would side with RealDiehl.

RealDiehl, I see your point, but on the other hand I personally appreciate the free spirit of this group - not a day care or some other institution bound by dozens if not hundreds laws and rules, but a community of very different people. Some are polite and soft, some are just the opposite, and some only read and keep silence, so we don't know much about them :-) And all together this is exactly what we call real life.

Victor, man, ya know I luv ya, kiddo . . . but keep in mind; because sometimes this is where YOU get askew. It's not about right/wrong, NOR taking sides. RealDiehl put shiz in perspective, and Brett supports WHOLEHEARTEDLY his theory....AS WELL as Andrey's.

Point being, this is a helluva site, geared to helping new folks peruse AND pursue their professional career, becoming a truck driver. This place was the 'Bees Knees' to you, back in the day. AND IT STILL IS, and will continue to be, to many!!! (Stay FOCUSED, man!)

Sometimes, politics DO intertwine with trucking; ie: the Vax mandates. Follow some trucking news channels; it's rampant. This is why Brett (the owner/developer/admin of this awesome site) ALLOWS some mixed emotions/theories/posts, regarding such.

Personalities are NOT cookie cutter fashioned, as we all know. FMCSA rules are, as we all know.

I wasn't going to even comment on this thread, but.. here I am, haha!

@RealDiehl (I know, the ampersand doesn't work here, oops!) I was ENAMORED with your original post in your thread. I had a reply typed out, but:

a.) Didn't want to be the first, because... um... I'm not a trucker!

b.) Brett beat me to it, and I'm SO GLAD for that.

c.) I read it thrice (or more?) and kept saying 'DAYUM!! NAIL ON HEAD!' to myself, in my sickly state.

d.) I'd had a bad winter cold; I'm at 80% BETTER .. YAY! (Non Covid... haha!) So... I'll be back around, Momma Anne will !!! (And haters will hate, haha!)

I could go on and on....

Best Wishes, Victor Jamie. I'm not picking on ya!

~ Anne & Tom ~