A. As a truck driver, it is discouraging when I hear someone make a comment about "those dumb@$$ truck drivers". First off, I bees calledge ejukated--second, most drivers are just trying to make a living. RVers seem to have a bit of a love/hate relationship with their bigger brothers :BB. As a person who enjoys RVing, I always get a chuckle when towing my TT and I hear some recent truck school grad on the C.B. commenting how I should have a special license---and probably can't even back the trailer up. I chuckle because I never went to any fancy 6 week school---I learned the old way, with the guy who owned the truck next to me, threatening to beat me in the head if I wrecked his truck. I probably have more miles backing up, then that smart@$$ has going forward (he doesn't know about "A").HOWEVER... Stupid is STUPID. Please note the parking spaces to the left & the spots to the right. The angle wasn't the best, but this RV is squarely parked in the travel lane between the parking spaces.Please don't be this person...

You could get a box of these and hand them out

I've read plenty of posts here on this forum.I'm not surprised at this pic at all.

They didn't have time to park it correctly. The special on the chicken fried steak was about to run out!

Truck drivers are just like any other group of people....some of them are great, some OK, and some are less than OK. I've had a lot of truck drivers signal me when it's ok to pass into a lane or provide an opening to get over. In return, I try to return the favor when I see that a truck needs to merge in front of me. I've never encountered any grief when parked in a truck stop area where it's the only place for RVs to park. And, I know it certainly isn't an easy way to make a buck! For the drivers that are less than OK, after saying a few "not so nice" words to myself....or to the DW, I just ignore them as they're not any worse than a lot of folks driving cars!

At least they didn't leave the RV parked at the diesel pumps while they ate in the restaurant, before they did a little shopping.You can't fix rude/stupid.

Don't be this person--PIC | Good Sam Community

gaymeadowsman
Explorer
Apr 14, 2016
Old-Biscuit wrote:
You could get a box of these and hand them out

I don't know who holds the copyright to this, but i operate a commercial digital printer at work. I just converted this to business card size and printed me a few.:W
hawkeye-08
Explorer III
Apr 14, 2016
Keeps life interesting...
Dandy_Dan
Explorer
Apr 15, 2016
I too was a truck driver for 13 years before going to the other side- Police officer- and an RVer so what gets me is when you pull into a Cracker Barrel and all the spaces reserved for trucks, buses and RV's are parked full of cars. Kinda makes you think about pulling in behind them set the brakes and and go in and enjoy dinner. :B
creeper
Explorer
Apr 15, 2016
There were probably a couple of trucks parked to his right which left, making him stupid. Hey even truckers do stupid things, like filling up the RV parking at the truck stop.
Bucky_Badger
Explorer
Apr 15, 2016
creeper wrote:
There were probably a couple of trucks parked to his right which left, making him stupid. Hey even truckers do stupid things, like filling up the RV parking at the truck stop.

Or parking in the car area at a rest stop...
RLS7201
Explorer II
Apr 15, 2016
What really hurts is, he/she is a fellow Bounder owner. :o

Richard
95 Bounder
KampingKris
Explorer
Apr 15, 2016
My experience surrounded a gas pump and a very rude family. It was a regular station and the diesel was at only one pump. The family pumped gas and sat... and went in the store... and sat... and went to the bathroom and sat... All while I was idling the diesel right behind them patiently waiting. I had the ATV trailer attached and was at such an angle that backing up was an issue and besides, it was obviously the only diesel pump..
I'm the DW and that family had some rather beefy grumpy men among them so I decided I would just wait rather than push the issue. But luckily after 10 minutes and me getting ready for battle, the attendant got involved and told them to MOVE. I do not understand the mentality.
Homer1
Explorer
Apr 15, 2016
KampingKris there is no logic. The mentality, well there is none. Some folks advance with civilization, others just mutate but remain mostly innate. You have not seen the end of them you will run into these Neanderthals for as long as you are on the highway.
mpierce
Explorer
Apr 16, 2016
Bucky Badger wrote:
creeper wrote:
There were probably a couple of trucks parked to his right which left, making him stupid. Hey even truckers do stupid things, like filling up the RV parking at the truck stop.

Or parking in the car area at a rest stop...

Those are almost always caused by the truck area being full at night. And, the car area essentially empty, with lots of space. When one runs out of hours, as required by LAW, the truck driver MUST stop, or face a $1000 fine for being over hours.
Homer1
Explorer
Apr 16, 2016
GaryWT x 2