Campaign #36 is in the books. Only 5wks so I could get a break before early September Dr's appt. Made pretty good money. PS steer tire cupped all to shit though so that's money I didn't get to take home. Too damn hot in TX as usual. Finally got to Rock City IL. #TruckerLife

First song of the new campaign augurs well for smooth sailing. Heading to Michigan with a load of some bullshit. 🤣 #TruckerLife

Worth noting this is EXACTLY the same argument living wage advocates employ. When people complain that raising working class wages will drive up retail prices activists invariably respond that the C-suite and investors can simply not extract so much money to cover the difference.

Unblockable at the Bosselman in Grand Island. 600mi day. Finna' roll inside for some chow and to hit up the vape shop. Wind's picking up. Gonna be nice to be rocked to sleep tonight. #TruckerLife

Yo @bigbird14.bsky.social! Meet The Bee!

Dinner last night at the Prime terminal grill in Springfield, MO. Barbacoa and rice bowl. $7. It was delicious.

Campaign #34 is in the books. Got some of those long loads I like (San Antonio to Minneapolis; St Louis to Denver). Made good money this go-around. Trucking volume and rates appear to be picking up just in time for summer. #TruckerLife

If I'm reading this situation correctly the son/daughter and spouse of a Schneider driver brought his granddaughter to the truck stop to get some hang time with Poppop in the lot. He adores her; can't stop smiling at her. The things we do...that we endure. #TruckerLife

“The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism.” Hannah Arendt

Fucking company tried to get me to haul a heavy load from Laredo to Oxnard in 3d for $1/mi. Predictably I called bullshit on that. Now I'm hauling 10k# of fancy-boy Starbucks food from San Antonio to Minneapolis for a rate that at least hits my Mendoza line ($2/mi). #TruckerLife

NOTE FOR NEW CDL HOLDERS: The guy who completely blocks a busy yard to open his trailer doors instead of laying up perpendicular to the docks and doing it before beginning to maneuver? Yeah, rookiebro. Don't be that guy. #TruckerLife

For reference: the 'bologna steak' biscuit:

Got a couple of corn dogs and a completely unblockable parking spot. The #TruckerLife is good.

Things you find on the ground in your fuel lane at the West Memphis Petro. #TruckerLife

...but we progressives have been repeatedly scolded that our candidates --and presumably our selves-- are "not even Democrats." There's a term for people who only want to be your friend when they need something from you. @sanders.senate.gov

Fucking 'Sentimental Street' by Night Ranger came on in the truck stop just now and my dudes I am scarred. If ever there was a song I'd have been 100% okay never hearing again it's that one. #TruckerLife

Last night I encountered two flatbeds from Duran Trucking of Garland TX side-by-side at the fuel pumps. I guess that makes them...

Wait, WHAT now?! Cargill Northpark in Fort Worth. #TruckerLife

I've lived in Oklahoma off and on since '86. Can any rightist/republican point to any positive outcome of the years of Republican 'leadership'? Anything? Trains run on time? Rightist governance has turned this state into a rival for Mississippi as 'shithole of the Union.' Prove me wrong.

Unbelievable 'brown-out' dust storm conditions just west of Fort Worth right now. Sickly yellow sunlight and stiff winds. Yo Texas! Y'all need some rain, my dudes! #TruckerLife #LifeOnArrakis

The Bee spotted in the wild by my Twitter buddy @haulin_cowmobil at the Petromart in Missouri Valley, IA. True to my habit I was already conked out in my sleeper. It is such a small world out here sometimes! 😁 #TruckerLife

When I was a kid growing up along the Atlantic flyway I remember seeing duck/goose migrations numbering in the multiple hundreds. Enormous, seemingly endless chevrons. Haven't seen anything like it in probably 30y. It worries me.

Just saw a truck based out of Emo, ON. I imagine an entire town where everyone goes around with black dyed hair and eyeliner looking at their shoes. 🤣

So fucking stoked for the next season of Dark Winds on Netflix I kinda can't see straight. The series is based on Tony Hillerman's Leaphorn-Chee detective novels, all set on the Navajo/Diné reservation. So thorough and sensitive...so gripping and engrossing. You should watch the series, my dudes.

Usually run 0300-1300. Had an overnight tonight. Pulled into a mom & pop truck stop I like about 20mi from my 90 and found one beautiful perfectly unblockable spot. Now I know how my preferred schedule amounts to a blessing for other weary drivers. Biscuits & bed. #TruckerLife

"You better bury Ned right! Better not cut up nor otherwise harm no whores, or I'll come back and kill every one of you sons of bitches."

21hrs awake and somehow it works according to FMCSA regs. No matter. Just pulled into a mom & pop truck stop I really like, hit up the hot bar for a couple of biscuits (including fried bologna), and am fixing to put the phone on DND and claw back my shut-eye. #TruckerLife

Smokies all over I-70 in Ohio today and working hard. DOT cars too. If you're rolling through watch yo azz. #TruckerLife

I like a nice slow boat load but 41hrs from pick to drop for 340mi is a little ridiculous. I'm going to pick the load at the beginning of the 24hr window, drive 4/5 of the way in, and find a Love's so I can take a mess of free showers while I wait. Pays okay not great. 🤷🚚🥱 #TruckerLife

Peter Brian Hegseth's name anagrams to "Get the herpes brain."

I don't know any trucker who doesn't have nightmares about the work. The good ones have responsibility drilled into their minds so diligently the dread of noncompliance becomes a pervasive personality tic. #TruckerLife

Invested in one of these because I'm weary of trying to add antigel to fuel tanks and having half of it end up on my hands/the ground. Anticipating it'll be the among the most useful $17 purchases I've ever made. #TruckerLife

Funny how months-long stretches of enforced sobriety make one a total lightweight. Started eyeballing that 12-pack of longnecks a little while ago and I'm ready to dance on the tables. 🤣

Forgot to mention it, but apparently we had a little hail in Springfield while I was on the road. Ask me how I know, and how I know what it costs to replace the windshield of a 2005 Ford F-150 in 2025.

You know the ice is bad when I choose a Starbucks over a local coffee shop because Starbucks can afford to salt their parking lot/sidewalk. If you're delivering/picking in OKC today unless it's on a major thoroughfare my advice is to stay parked and wait it out. #TruckerLife

Heading in for home time after 4wks. Nonstop snow/ice and frustrating routings. Getting out of VT was possibly my worst day of driving ever. I stay out 6-8wks by driving to minimize stress. This is the first time I've failed myself in that regard. Beer, friends, and BBQ inbound! #TruckerLife

#BlueMAGA is as cancerous as #MAGA.

Someone called me last night. They were crying. All they said was "Dad?" between sobs then the line went dead. Immediately called both of my kids. Wasn't either of them. About scared me to death! Whoever you are, I hope you find your daddy so he can fix whatever's the matter!

Begged them to find me a southbound load yesterday morning. What do they do? Send me to goddamn St Albans, 30mi S of the Canadian border. Not enough time to get S and find parking so now I'm fucking stuck here waiting for the S to HTF. I am so fucking angry I can't see straight. #TruckerLife

@bruceleestewart.bsky.social Rolled through the Cester of Wor this morning around 1030 on my way to Maine. If my return trip has me stopping anywhere in the general vicinity I'll LYK ASAP. PS: I had none of the associated Shire sauce.

Snow forecast along my route for tomorrow in central and eastern PA. Old-timers will scoff but fuck 'em. I'm not Canadian. I don't fuck with that shit, especially when it means truck stops fill up early. I'd rather be safely/legally parked than have no recourse. #TruckerLife

$4.84/mi. A day's pay for a scant 4h of driving. When it rains it keeps raining I guess. #TruckerLife

"Well I hate your crowded cities with their sad and hopeless mobs. And I hate your grand cathedrals where you try to trap God. 'Cause I know God is here in the canyons with the rattlesnakes and the piñon pines. And they never found my body boys, or understood my mind."

Spent the night last night at one of my favorite truck stops (Abbyland in Curtiss, WI). Now I'm heading to eastern PA with a load of frozen sausages paying $2.70/mi. Having pizza & an Italian beef from Rosati's in Minooka IL tonight. The #TruckerLife is a good life indeed.

"I can hear the wind whisper my name, tellin' me it's time to head out again. My horses are trailered and the lights are shut down and I'm long overdue for headin' outta town."

"Just cause I'm ready to die for you baby Doesn't mean I'm ready to stay. What good is livin a life you've been given if all you do is stand in one place? I'm on a river that winds on forever follow til I get where I'm goin. Maybe I'm headin to die but I'm still gonna try I guess I'm goin alone."

"If I thought about it long enough I just might make some kind of move. Watchful lies are too hard on the soul. With a smokehouse just across the way and this fog upon the light of day I'd be hard pressed comin' up with where to go."

Suddenly remembering a night playing poker in the dining car of an Amtrak from Philadelphia to Richmond, drinking whiskey out of a pint in a paper bag and sharing my Kools with everyone sitting in. The only thing the conductor told us to 86 was the money on the table. I was 15.

My neighbor on the yard doesn't know she's not a puppy anymore. 🤣 #TruckerLife

Got to my drop on time. They're closed. Fuckers. 😡 I pulled right up to the truck gate. Nobody's getting in or out until they honor my appointment time. 🤣 #HappyNewYear #SameShitDifferentYear #TruckerLife