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Today's Thoughts 7/7/11 Next

It is often believed that sooner or later each man and each woman will have to face judgment day. Over the years there have been all kinds of beliefs and ideas as to whom one would have to account to and what they would have to answer to. Well in the made up world of my mind, I often wonder just how this day would be for truck drivers as they enter into their new career into the trucking industry. As they approached the bench and gave account of what kind of trucker they would be.

As each driver walks into the courtroom, he sees on his right sitting behind a banister at a table a Mr. He B. LaHood. Now Mr. LaHood is a fine old man who takes great pride in doing his job because as he sees it, he is keeping our highways safe from outlaw truckers thereby saving the life's of many people. Nothing is more important than this to Mr. LaHood. And most would agree with this. A safe highway and a safe working environment is most important to all concerned.

On his left sitting behind a banister and table much like the one on the other side of the room, is a Mr. I. B. Trump. Now Mr. Trump being a young ambitious man sees things a little differently. Being the leader of many of great companies, he employees thousands of people and keeps them that way by keeping his businesses moving. After all, a company cannot survive if it has nothing to do. Therefore he expects the truck drivers in his employ to be of the most diligent kind. One that can get the job done so that his companies can keep producing and his employees can stay employed and his customers indeed stay very happy. He believes that an employed country is a happy and healthy country.

Found sitting between the two in the middle of the room, high up behind a large old wooden judges bench, sits the judge. For years people have wondered the name of the judge. No one was ever able to find out. When asked, "We The People" was all that was ever answered. You see the judge always believed that he was a complex mixture of all the people. Everything that people believed in their dreams and also their fears was who the judge was. The judge knew that somewhere between truckers being safe and legal out on the open highway, it was also most important to keep the nation employed and fed.

And now back to our trucker, the hero of our story, as you will remember we left entering the court room. The trucker approaches the bench and the judge quickly calls the court to order. The judge then looks down upon the trucker with glaring eyes and in a loud echoing booming voice demands to know, "What kind of trucker shall ye be?" A second or two the judge pauses and the continues, "Will ye follow Mr. LaHood and keep our highways safe even though you know you will be drummed out of the industry by Mr. Trump because his loads are not delivered on time?" And then another pause is giving by the judge. "Or will ye follow Mr. Trump and be run out of the business because your driver's record was destroyed keeping his companies up and running and the country employed?" Another pause as the judge gets ready to make the final statement. "This We The People demand to know"

Standing there, shaking from the fear of knowing that whatever answer is giving, the trucker knows that sooner or later, one way or the other, the career worked for so hard, will end. If Mr. Trump is not followed and obeyed, another trucker will be found to do the job. If Mr. LaHood Is not followed, the trucker's licenses will be revoked. Round and round in the truckers head these thoughts go. One answer followed swiftly by the next until the drivers head start to produce smoke and finally a loud "POP" is heard throughout the courtroom. Then the three great men sit in their respective chairs and watch what remains of the trucker crumple to the floor.

Mr. LaHood exclaims, "Wow, what a silly trucker" Followed by Mr. Trump saying" Well, they are a dime a dozen you know" And the judge shouts in his large booming voice, "Bailiff, remove this trash and send in the next trucker"

The Bailiff that has been all too quite through this whole process mostly because years have been spent watching it over and over again, quickly sweeps up what remains of the trucker and disposes of the mess in the nearest container. Then the bailiff turns towards the door with thousands and thousands of waiting truck drivers stretched just outside in a line as far as one could see and simply hollers' "NEXT".

Be safe peeps

Jeff Head.
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