Trucks Stories

Well here I am 5 weeks later reporting to the yard office. The senior trainer has an attendance list that must be signed to indicate that you are present and ready for instruction, forgetting to sign in will cause you to be reassigned to another instructor and to a task that you may not like as much. After signing in we report to the gazebo to enjoy our Morning coffee and cigarettes amid robust debate about current events...

I didn't go on the road. In the morning, I stayed back and did chores. I burned manure, did dishes, got fuel for the generator, dumped the used shower water out on the driveway and filled the shower tanks. At night, I pulled extra shifts of guard duty, and four hours of radio watch every night. I averaged six hours of watch a night. In the hot middle of the day I did things like taking parts off broken trucks so that the...