What Difference Does It Make

Today's Thoughts. By Jeff Head 9/16/14 What Difference Does It Make

Today, I did what I normally do not do.  When I went inside to get a little something for breakfast instead of walking past the counter up front I actually sat down at it.   Now everyone knows where the bull flows at a truck stop restaurant and sure enough, I sat right down into a big pile of it this morning.  One particular conversation I found myself into really got me caught up into it.  "You see driver" I said, " When a driver takes a loaded eighteen wheeler and follows less than two feet behind a family at highways speeds. I think that is dangerous and someone needs to speak out about the problem."

As luck would have it my new found friend believed that even though it might be dangerous,  we should simply let the drivers company and the police do their job and stay out of it.  To each their own I say but I had to ask.  So If someone took  a loaded pistol and started waving it around in front of a group of people, you are saying that that is perfectly fine and that you should say or do nothing, just walk away and mind your own business.  My friend said"well no, it is a gun and no one should be waving around such a dangerous thing in front of people, someone might get killed by accident."

So I ask my friend, "What difference does it make if it is some clown with a loaded gun or a truck driver in a eighty thousand pound truck endangering the lives within just feet of them?  Think about I said, What is the difference in the kind of danger that makes you say one I should speak up and ask that the gun be put down while on the other hand you would look the other way because you do not want to rat out another driver?"  

A perfect deer in the head lights glare.   So I ask you, what is the difference?  We would not stand idly by while some one plays with a loaded gun around people.  We would not stand there and watch Granny get bullied by some punk would we.  Then why do so many truckers just sit there while some bully in a big truck endangers the life of who could be our own loved ones and say absolutely  nothing.  I have to ask, what difference does it make the weapon used that some truckers feel it is ok for a truck to be used to bully their way through traffic?   

What difference does it make, to me none at all.  If you are a bully behind the wheel of whatever you drive it is time for your to stop it.  Our jobs a s professional truckers is to keep that highway safe for those we share them with. If you are not up to the challenge, go sit on the porch with the puppies until up can learn to play nice with others out on the highway. 

God Bless America

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