Nice Attack

[Nowhere Man 1966]

Originally Posted by swaghauler

My prayers go out all of our French forum users and those who suffered a loss in Nice France.

The latest count is 73 dead, 100's injured when a truck driver drove through a crowd and then got in a shootout with police.


Today I'm ashamed to call myself a "trucker...."

Why should you feel bad for being a trucker because of what this criminal did? I place the blame on the criminal/terrorist not the truck or the trucking industry.

[swaghauler]

Originally Posted by Nowhere Man 1966

Why should you feel bad for being a trucker because of what this criminal did? I place the blame on the criminal/terrorist not the truck or the trucking industry.

Unfortunately, you are in the "level headed" minority. Truckers are a fraternity like cops or the Army. When one member of the brotherhood does something stupid, it reflects badly on the rest of us. I have already heard people making ignorant comments about truckers and "road rage" based on France. It saddens me that truckers may face prejudice just like the Dallas cops (and now Baton Rouge) who are paying the price for a couple of cops who screwed up half way across the country.

[Nowhere Man 1966]

Originally Posted by swaghauler

Unfortunately, you are in the "level headed" minority. Truckers are a fraternity like cops or the Army. When one member of the brotherhood does something stupid, it reflects badly on the rest of us. I have already heard people making ignorant comments about truckers and "road rage" based on France. It saddens me that truckers may face prejudice just like the Dallas cops (and now Baton Rouge) who are paying the price for a couple of cops who screwed up half way across the country.

You have a point there, I work in a call center and everyday it proves that H.L. Mencken right where "no one has gone broke overestimating the stupidity of the American (really all over the world) people." Saw you comment about the Baton Rouge cops and one of my junior high buddies, we were in homeroom together, is now the police chief of a small borough west of Pittsburgh and I've talked to him and his wife and they fear for his safety.