Thread: Should Have Been More Than a Warning

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

as one of those "fornacating truck drivers" myself I will answer.....yes we have heard of bluetooth,some of us have trucks fitted with it......however some of us have bosses who are so tight they need operation to fart and those tight bosses declinded to tick the box when ordering a new truck as it "costs us money" eg my scania truck has all the swicthes etc on steering wheel but cant use it as not installed. in case where I NEED to use phone I stop dial number then chuck on my earmuffs and jam phone inside one ear..holds it in place and can talk fine n dandy.
if boss rings me while Im driving I answer on the R.T. that confuses the crap out of them.

A mate of mine who was a truckie was being pulled over at a random booze stop when his phone rang, He ignored it while moving partly because the cops could hear it ringing. He passed through the line having the caller (his boss) try several times straight away. When he pulled over after exiting the line of cops and answered the call the boss was yelling and giving him an earful for not answering. Meanwhile one of the officers came over to see if he had been told to pull over and he heard some of the comments like the boss yelling "I dont care if you're driving, answer the god-damned phone when I call" The officer indicted to the driver to give him the phone and listened for a bit. When the boss stopped for air, the officer then proceeded to rip the boss a new one regarding his disregard of the law and suggested that he may receive a call from higher up the chain and that he would likely be getting the ticket instead of the driver..(No actual ticket issued as the driver had pulled over to answer, but the boss didn't know that)...It was about then that my mate decided he didn't like working there anymore so he told the entire workplace about that chat before leaving.

having met that employer, that story still makes me smile....