Wild Stories from Truck Drivers 

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Ive been driving for ten years plus 7 in the US Army and the biggest piece of advice i give new drivers is to go slow, no matter how confident you think you are go slow when backing, connecting to your trailer or go slow when doing your pre/post trips, because its on you when something happens and the slower you go the less likely it is to happen and you can react faster and safer.

My dad was a truck driver for the last 12 years. He just passed away 3 weeks ago after a brave battle with cancer. He loved trucking and it gave him the opportunity to spend weeks at a time with his children and grandchildren, and when we would pick him up at the truck, the kids always loved investigating the living quarters of his truck, they thought it was so cool, and he always let them beep the horn. ❤

My husband has been driving truck for along time. We met when he was driving over the road. He is now an owner operator of his own truck. I’m very proud and grateful for all truck drivers and I pray for your safety.

The energy in this video is DELIGHTFUL.

I don't comment often but I appreciate it as a proud wife of a truck driver! He's done OTR and is now local. Truck drivers are superheros and backbone of the economy! I also talk to my husband constantly when he's driving. Thanks ladies for this episode and shedding light on the life of a trucker

I worked as a server for a truck stop for 2years and it was still one of my favorite jobs, just like every other profession you got some crazys, some pervs, stinkys, but also the sweetest most caring and funny people ever. I still keep on touch with a couple of my regulars because they turned to family

The part about the accident and the man's soul already being gone before the accident made me bawl my eyes out My sister in law was 9 months pregnant and got in an accident last week. She died on impact and they revived her and kept her body alive for a few days while they figured out the baby situation and life support. She deserved to meet her baby boy. She was only in her 20s. I miss her so much

Why does it not surprise me how you are treated by coworkers and customers because of your beautiful femininity and im so sorry that those bad apples are so ignorant. KEEP TRUCKING GIRL YOU A QUEEN FOR REAL! ❤❤❤❤❤

I’m glad she mentioned all the stuff truck drivers haul. Our modern society would be nearly impossible without truckers.

I used to have a bumper sticker on my car that said "If you got it, a trucker brought it. Thank a trucker." I have gotten a new car since, and I keep looking for a replacement of that bumper sticker.

❤Time Stamps!❤ 39:51 Story about dog barking 41:53 Story about lot 🦎 1:04:52 Story about truck driver by military base 35:49 Most viral story 46:19 Story about being approached while the truck is stopped 1:07:53 Planning for a long drive

I'm only 9mins in, and girl I understand the energy regarding not being respected in a male-dominated field. It's so frustrating when you know what you know and still be told "because you're a woman you don't know {xyz}" Love this episode!

Clarissa is like a gust of fresh air, a force of nature! I really enjoyed watching as someone who is new to your channel. I definitely want to follow Clarissa on social media and watch some of her videos. The stories from both of you were so entertaining. In Australia, they are hiring women to drive trucks in the mines because women treat the trucks better 😂😂 Clarissa, your story about having to brake because of the unforeseen, made me think of something else that’s happening here in Australia. A large trucking company wants their drivers to fill out “near misses” reports” which is totally ridiculous when nothing actually happened and it adds more paperwork for the drivers. I have so much respect for Truck drivers. My Great Uncle was one and he had a heart attack at the wheel. He took his truck off road, over the side of the infamous Bulli Pass in NSW. He’s a hero in our books. Clarissa, add Slim Dusty’s song “Lights on the Hill” to your country repertoire. It always reminds me of Uncle Brad. It’s a truckers song. 🎵 Thank you Clarissa, for being a gorgeous, glamorous inspiration to women everywhere that they can and should do typically male jobs and earn the dollars that go with it. They have to be prepared, like you, to put in the work to do it. I think you are a bloody Legend! ❤️🤗🎵🦘🐨🇦🇺💕🐊🩵🙏

So I'll never forget how proud I was to drive all the way from north Indiana to Kissimmee Florida over 1k miles no stops to sleep, no driver change, part of me wishes i wasn't too nervous to drive Rigs cause I truly belive it would fill so much of my soul.

I LOVED this episode!!! It was so interesting and the stories were all wonderful ❤❤❤

She’s an absolute queen 👏👏

The ending of the story is that the truck driver started his car and drove away, basically said nope, not today, and drove to the nearest truck.Stop and then the man started chasing the truck like a dog.You're welcome

These are so entertaining!!!! Keep up the good work Rodger’s!!!!!!

39:51 the dog story, for anyone who came for this clip

Rebecca I just wanted to say that I love your videos and how educational they are, I drive an hour to get to work everyday and your podcasts are the only podcasts I can stand to listen to because they are so insightful and the energy you bring to every episode is amazing I can’t get enough of your videos I love your content.

Idk what it is about you Rebecca, you enthrall me with your sit-down and talk format vlog. Your intense empathetic personally is such a light to this world! Keep up the excellent attitude towards life and be a blessing and example for others 💛🙌🏾

Wow I'm early btw I love your videos!!❤ going to be the best 1 hour ever ❤

I’m so excited to see my girl on here!!

Just love how she call all kids babys that a Mama. Ya I believe that she was there to help all of them in that car that day her husband maybe didn't know that something was going to happen where she was the one who helped but still this story is so good and sad at the same time and good because sometimes to get tho something like that we need help and support and the love of a mom the man needed someone to help him understand what happened and how he felt she being a mom knows how to help him in it all . We all need to talk about how we feel and he even as a man needed someone to help him and the babys needed a mother touch . Good job.

My dad is a truck driver and has some wild story’s like his truck just going into flames for no reason

Super fun to learn about!

Miracles are definitely real. My boyfriend and his sister was driving back from their aunt's after work and got hit by a semi truck. Neither of them had a scratch on them, both of them were completely fine, physically. They were pulling out to get into the main road, there's a hill on the right side and a straight road on the left, he pulls out and all of a sudden his sister starts screaming "Semi, semi, semi!" Next thing they know BOOM they're hit. To this day I am still very thankful that they are okay. My boyfriend was going to pay for damages since it was his fault but the truck driver told him not to worry about it since he was at fault to for going way too fast over the hill.

Loved this guest!

I drove cross country twice with a friend of mine. It was WILD 😂

This was so delightful! Love her and of course Rebecca ❤

I drive OTR locally for my company going site to sight, but most of my job is as a yard driver on-site at the warehouses. These are some of the problems I've encountered doing this for the last 2 years. 1) Many drivers, particularly males, are rude!They'll cuss you out or cut you off when trying to setup a maneuver to park. Some will treat us women like we're beneath them or ignorant of how this all works. 2) One guy asked me if I could reach the door latches on the trailers to open/close them. I'm 5'2" and can reach standard trailers just fine. The shipping containers (intermodals) are higher and I have to reach a bit more. 3) There is some sort of unspoken dress code to wear all dark colors at night in a poorly light yard. Some dudes straight up vanish into the shadows! 4) many won't wear the class 2 safety vests on the yard, even when it's required by the company's yard rules. The reflectors increase other driver's visibility of your presense. They will give you attitude about it or say they'll put it on but don't. I've seen many drivers just drape the vest around their neck, put them on inside out, or put a jacket over the vest. So no reflection possible. 5) No concept of a safety bubble when around other trucks. Drivers will walk right up to my yard truck (hostler) WHILE I'M STILL MOVING to ask me a question. Or they'll dart behind your truck and/or trailer just as you start reversing with no heads up. They'll park in the spot immediately next to you when you are walking around inspecting the trailer that you're about to move. This is a major safety risk of getting pinned, and I've had many instances where the truck has no backup alarm. So I had no knowledge that the trailer was close until I physically saw it or nearly walked into it coming around my trailer!! 6) OTR, drivers will ride up on your tail or pull in front of you and not accelerate to create that following distance (6-8 second gape between vehicles) for safety and crash prevention. Loaded trailers goingnover 40 mph can take 350 feet (1 football field) or more to stop! An empty trailer that stops quickly has the greatest risk to jack knife. 7) Men, especially the foreign drivers, don't know how to park!! Whether in a parking slop or on a dock door, they park at an angle. So the dock plate can't set correctly or the trailer is too far to one side, and you can clearly see the dock door along the edge of the trailer. The door should be completely covered and NOT visible if parked correctly. Most of the time this is caused by impatience with multiple drivers trying to park, and now the yard drivers will have to spend time realigning the trailers to the doors so work can begin on them. 8) Dumping trash or human waste (used adult diapers and bottles with urine) on the trailer yard!!!! 🤢🤢🤢🤢 Not bothering to toss these into one of the many dumpsters or at the bathrooms.

I love Clarissa’s energy! I’m definitely going to have to check out her videos. I’ve never had interest in driving a truck, but I’m actually sitting here saying… hey, why not?

I LOVE YOU REBECCA! i love your podcast! keep doin what your doin cause your amazing at it!

lol what I do instead of sleeping

Are we gonna gloss over that Mrs Rogers said "shit"! Haha😅😅 I rmbr when teacher would slip in class!

I love this duo ❤

I’m a truck driver, I would absolutely love to do an interview with you, i have some crazy stories to tell.

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Oh yeah, the desert tarantula migration! Poor things cross the desert in October. It's pretty cool, but also I'm fine with spiders, especially tarantulas. I undertsand not everyone can do that. But when I was a senior in high school, one of my friends lived out in the desert and caught one from the migration path and brought it to school, and I held it. It was a wonderful experience and I made sure he was going to release it back on the migration path because it was important he got where they were all going. Tarantulas are awesome, but I totally get it when people are just not into spiders. If you're one of those people who can't do spiders, I hope you never witness the migration because it's a lot.

7:02 I literally thought she said 70 years. I had to rewind😂😂❤

I drive to Greensboro at least once a year for work and I have to be strategic about how many liquids I drink and when I need gas because I’ve ended up in sketch situations in Virginia and West Virginia

All the doctors I have talked to have told me it is fine and probably a good thing if you fall asleep during the concussion because it helps your brain repair it’s self faster

I have respect for truckers as someone who works in a warehouse truckers are one of the professions I have respect for

Female here and I come from a family of farmers and truckers. I have drove semis from the field to the co-op, drove tractors, combines, been the truck with hazards on behind or in front of the caravan heading home from the field at midnight and the amount of disrespect people give us on the road is unreal. I will always signal over a trucker on the 4 lane, I will block people from passing to let a trucker over bc his signal has been on for half a mile trying to lane change for their exit, I will slow down to 10 mph behind a tractor and not give a damn bc they have 2 wagons filled with corn or beans. We share the road and as farmers, we help feed the world and 2 of the 15 family members that drive truck haul animals and they get beat to hell and back (broken bones are not uncommon for them when loading cattle or buffalo and getting ripped to shreds by hogs and hands smashed by goats and sheep) but they love their jobs and someone has to do it. I decided to be the first one in my family to fall into the trades and become a welder. Now I am a Weld fabricator for specialty projects on farms and for livestock as well as a robotic programmer and operator. And I love my job and I also help farm as much as I can and will gladly get covered in every type of bodily fluid to help save a cow with a stuck calf or a nanny with a kid twisted up.

I love your videos

She's such a delight! My guy is a semi (car hauler currently) mechanic and we're starting our own company of it. And her attitude is exactly why. Some of these old driver men are just bums with 6figure paychecks..trash humans. Won't do pretrips, won't respect anyone, act like the only one able to fail at the job enough for them to break even...... Realize I sound like her and absolutely love it. (I'm former aquatic so get that "get all the certs for the check", before I was a momma. Think I quit in 2006 as a LGTI-WSI2/life guard able to cert others and swim lessons making like 18$ just for funsies) And if in PNW and willing to do car hauler for insanely high pay.... I know where to work. We like the guy he's currently working under but the drivers cost in carelessness/attitude. Would love to find him better drivers before we venture on our own

The knife story is at 49:54

Question…How does car driver let a truck driver know that their trailers turn signal/break lights are not working? In front of me I had a semi turning on to the entrance ramp for a highway. I saw the break lights and turn signals working on the truck but nothing was lighting up on their trailer. What can I do if I ever see that again?

Yay a new background

IM FROM NORTH CAROLINA, about an hour from Raleigh

Your 1st sponsor message gave me a weird feeling like we are in The truman show.

u should do one about dogs like rescue dogs

Wait what? Right to work states don’t have unions? Why is there a teachers Union in Arizona?

The food pantry I go to has Bombas socks.

48:43 As someone who lives in Greensboro, thank you for officially terrifying me

One point of order: unions are not exactly politics only, they can be compared to insurance. When you need them, and don't have them, you regret it.

Hi Rebecca so I saw your RU-vid short and I was like shot

My neighbor is a truck driver. I think she's a local driver.

40:50 Girl, let me tell you, the amount of uncomfortable I got at this moment.

I don't have the beat experience with track drivers unfortunately. I live in a place where I see probably more trucks then regular cars, cuz my parents house is on one side of the road, the other side of the road there's a package delivery hub, and if you take the road one way there's a high way, and the other is one of the biggest cities in the country, so quite a lot of trucks going I all directions, and I don't have a drivers license, and the bus are rare and quite expensive, so going to school or work in said big city, because I only live 2km away, so I would usually either walk or bike. And like obviously I see those bad behaviours so often ,because I just see a lot of trucks it's not all drivers, but it does happen so often that I just feel weary of them instinctively. But the amount of times I had truck driver stop, just to harass me, and follow me (cuz I'm fem presenting) just slowly drive behind me and ask me inappropriate questions, especially in the summer. And when I take the bike it's like they're just triggered by bikers, because the amount of times I was put in denger by a truck driver. I once even got into an accident and injured my foot, cuz the truck that was stuck in traffic, while I was biking in the side of the road skipping the traffic, the truck suddenly started pulling to the side right as it show me approaching, and It happened so suddenly I didn't menaged to break so I just fell of me bike, and fell into the roadside trench or however they are called in english, and I just saw the driver laughing while slowly driving away with the traffic. And that was not the first time something like that happened, this time I just didn't menage to break in time cuz they did it so quickly, but it's like they're allergic to bikers skipping traffic. The road is huge it's not like there's no space for me, I can pass easly, but so many of them will see me approach and just starts pulling over to block me, and I saw it happened to other bikers too, so it's not just me. Like, what is this weird spite against bikers?

26:30 hey my mom is from Louisiana

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Go to 43:27 and pause😂😂

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If you came from the short, the dog story is at 40:00 mins. Your welcome 😈

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Interesting how the older guys have her crap for being a woman. When I was a mechanic, it was the YOUNGER guys who said the most or gave me the most crap. The older guys would help me with ANYTHING at all!

My family just recently started getting factor meals I don’t like them😖

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“You gotta understand the fundamentals of the English language,” she says in Ebonics 😂

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