Drivers Daily Comics
What’s Inside:
• Cartoons for Truck Drivers
• Truck Drivers Dictionary
• The Bear Mechanic
• Pre-Trip Inspection Step-By-Step
• Truck Washing Tips and MORE!
Drivers Daily Comics
© 2021 by Bill Stanford
Guides You Step-By-Step Through A Pre-Trip Inspection
• Step 1. Check Lights
Just to make sure the lights are all there. Everyone knows they never all work. If you aren’t sure where all the lights are located, just stroll around the truck and occasionally stop and stare at the vehicle seriously for several moments. This creates a favorable impression on your dispatcher, because he doesn’t know where all the lights are located either.
• Step
2. Check Tire Pressure
Be sure to kick all the tires vigorously. (It is a very good idea not to be wearing sandals or flip-flops during this particular step in your pre-trip.) Kicking the tires will give you the opportunity to walk to the other side of the truck to get away from your dispatcher while he is asking if all the lights work. If a tire is flat, this will also present an opportunity to go back inside for another cup of coffee.
• Step 3. Air Line Check
Check to see if there are any air leaks. If there is an air leak, check the air hose connections thoroughly. While tightening the airlines you may find a hot tire. You must cool this tire immediately! While cooling tire, look curiously at the back of the cab or front of trailer. This will make people passing by think you are checking out a real problem. Looking up at the clearance lights will make your dispatcher very happy, thinking you are doing a thorough inspection. It will also make everyone else look up.
• Step 4. Safe Operation
Now that your truck is safe to operate, you may proceed safely to the closest truck stop. Because you cannot rush through a rigorous pre-trip inspection, it is now afternoon and delivery across town would just be impossible. But your truck is safe! So you may as well stop for coffee and flirt with Mabel the waitress. If you decide to safely proceed with your trip after coffee and flirting, it may be imperative to stop and check the tire temperature along the way. Step three may be repeated as many times as necessary.
Presents: Today’s Episode: Truck Care Corner Truck Washing Tips
2. Borrow the truck stop managers shovel. Replant shrubbery and flowers. Rake up broken twigs and stems.
3. Soak a truck stop shower towel you have been saving in soapy water. Remove dirt from roof, hood, and stacks. Move rear wheel off hose and rinse.
4. After washing and rinsing both sides, spread another dry truck stop shower towel across drivers seat to soak up water. Close driver side window.
5.Use a putty knife to remove bugs from truck, be very careful not to scratch paint.
6. Wash dirt and mud off of driveway as far as hose will reach. Plan to buy a hose repair kit very soon before the truck stop manager finds the hose pulled lose from the spigot.
7. Remove shoes, empty water from them, and place in sun to dry. Practice curling your toes upward to fit your dry shoes.
Final Word: If you are unable to accomplish the preceding, take your truck to a reputable truck wash and for a rather marginal fee you can watch them empty their shoes. They are also experts at scraping bugs off using a putty knife and leaving few scratches.
Bear in the Air: (noun) - bār ĭn thē ār
1. A large clumsy animal falling out of a tree.
2. A police officer chasing the Dukes of Hazard.
3. A Speed Cop in an airplane looking for big trucks in the hammer lane.
The G.W. : (noun) - thŭ jē dŭb-yŭ
1. The gateway to the Rotten Apple.
2. You leave most of your money at the G.W. so that when you get mugged in the city, the thieves don’t have as much to carry, and then the lumpers get any cash that you may still have.
3. You only pay on the way into the city because no one has any money coming out. And it’s ok that you don’t have to stop because you want to get out just as fast as you can - and who wants to pay to enter New Jersey...
Dispatcher: (noun) - bĭg dŭm-mē
1. A person with no actual trucking experience at all - but tells you how it should be done.
2. The only person in the world who thinks driving from Miami to Reno only takes six hours.
3. A person who thinks Truck Drivers should only get home once a year and NOT on a weekend.
Chicken
Coop: (noun) - chĭk-uhñ koop
1. A place where the chicken master or head rooster hangs out and arrests truck drivers.
2. A place many Large Cars “go around”.
Chicken Lights: (noun) - chĭk-ñ līts
1. The lights of a chicken.
2. A dim light that is turned on at night because you are scared of the dark. You are “chicken” so you need a “chicken light”.
3. Lights that a freight hauler sticks all over his/her truck that when all lit up at night, makes him/her look like a chicken hauler.
Large
Car: (noun) - roost-r krooz-r
1. A big, fast, shiny truck with a long hood and lo-o-o-o-ots of chrome.
2. A big truck equipped with two or more alternators and a minimum of eight extra batteries in order to keep hundreds of chicken lights glowing.
3. A Large Car is never dirty, never home, and never paid for...
Pickle Park: (noun) - pĭk-l părk
1. A place to sleep, do a nature call, or cuss at that ELD for making you stop.
2. A place to pick-up girls that you wouldn’t take home to mother.
Turtle Race: (noun) - slō pōk
1. Two reptiles with a hard outer shell, each trying to reach the lettuce before the other.
2. A large truck governed at 66 MPH passing another large truck governed at 65MPH. It can take up to 6-1/2 hours to accomplish this maneuver, usually with a 12 mile long traffic back-up behind both trucks. Often both trucks will come to a complete stop during this maneuver, plugging both lanes, for their mandatory 1/2 hour break.
I just can’t figure out why your bucket of bolts won’t start
I don’t Want to tell you How to do your job, but have you tried plugging it into your Computer?
Well, No
oooooh, got some crumbs in the keyboard
Can’t let good Crumbs going to waste!
wha-wha what kind of a critter are you?
the name is dot Com I’m a blue goo this tru C k has a green goo and it’s gooing up the i njeCtors
A blue goo is a good goo gray goo’s and green goo’s are bad news
now, plug this wire into that truck’s Computer
what’s a goo?
“?”
hold this funnel over the air intake and I’ll connect it to the shop computer, then hold on tight!
