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Old 01-28-2008, 04:55 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Re: Trucker Slang (revised 1-2008)

CB Town - Council Bluffs, IA

Camera - Police radar or laser

Cash Box - Toll booth

Cash Register - Toll Booth

CB Rambo - Wannabe tough guy on CB

Cheese Wagon - Yellow school bus

Chicken Coop - Weigh station

Chicken Lights - Decorative marker lightson truck and/or trailer

Chili Bowl, the - Chillicothe, OH

Choke-N-Puke - Greasy spoon restaurant

Choo Choo - Chattanooga, TN

Cigar City - Tampa, FL

City Kitty - Local police

Constitution, the - Connecticut

Cornhusker, the - Nebraska

Comic Book - Drivers’ log book

Commercial company - Prostitute

Corn Flake - Consolidated Freightways truck

Cow Town - Calgary, AB

Comedian - Median strip

Coal Bucket - Dump Trailer

Cooling a Tire - Truck on shoulder, driver urinating

Coops - Weigh Station

County Mounty - County Sheriff or police

Covered Wagon - Flatbed trailer with staked sides covered with tarpaulin

Cowboy, the - Texas

Crotch Rocket - Japanese street motorcycle

Curtain Sider - Trailer similar to a box trailer except that the sides are movable curtains.

Deadhead - Drive an empty truck

Derby, the - Louisville, KY

Diesel Bear - Commercial Motor Vehicle police; Aka revenue collector

Dirty side - East coast

Disco Lights - Lights atop police car

Dispatcher Brains - Light or empty load

Dog is Barking - Signal on radar/laser detector

Dolly - Detachable front axle assembly

Dome, the - Houston, TX

Donkey - Behind rear of truck

Double Nickle - 55 MPH speed limit; Interstate route 55

Dragonfly - Truck going slow uphill and fast downhill

Dragon Wagon - Tow truck

Drom Box - A Box mounted behind the cab and forward of the 5th wheel

Drop Deck - Trailer on which the floor drops down a level

Dry Box - A plain truck box or trailer, i.e. no refrigerator

Ears - A CB radio; as in “have you got your ears on?”

Evel Knievel - Police officer on a motorcycle

Flat Face - A cab over engine (COE) tractor

Flip side - Return trip

Flying Hook - Flying J truck stop

Freightshaker - Freightliner truck

Friendly, the - Philadelphia, PA

Front Door - First truck in a convoy

Full Grown Bear - State Highway patrol officer

Garden, the - New Jersey

Gas Hole - Rear end of a 4 wheeler

Gator or Gator Tail - Blown tire pieces in roadway

Gateway, the - St. Louis, MO

Georgia Overdrive - Neutral gear

Go-Go Juice - Fuel

Golden, the - California

Good Buddy - Homosexual

Gouge on it - Hammer down;Speed up

Grand Canyon, the - Arizona

Granite, the - New Hampshire

Granny Lane - Right highway lane

Greasy Side Up - Overturned vehicle

Greasy Spoon - Cheap restaurant

Green Stamp - Pennsylvania turnpike

Ground Pressure - Truck weight

Guitar, the - Nashville, TN

Gumball Machine - Lights atop police car
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