Part 2 of the 2008 revision of the trucker slang list of words and phrases heard on the CB radio, in and around trucks and trucker gathering places.
Part 1 http://www.expeditersonline.com/forum/layover-lounge/29518-trucker-slang-part-1-a.html
Hammer down
Go Fast
Hammer Lane
Left highway lane or passing lane.
Hand
Truck driver
Handle
CB nickname
Honey Bear
Female Police Officer
Hoosier, The
Indiana
Hopper Bottom
Grain trailer
Jake Brake
Engine retarder; Jacobs brake
Junk Yard
Truck company terminal
Keystone,The
Pennsylvania
Kojak with a Kodak
Police with radar
Large Car
Conventional tractor, usually Kenworth or Peterbilt
Little Road
Two lane road
Little Word
Chicken Coops are open; See ˜Big Word"
Lot Lizard
Prostitute
Lizard with a kickstand
male prostitute
Lumper
Person who unloads trucks
Mail Box
Postal truck
Mardi Gras, The
New Orleans, LA
Meat Wagon
Ambulance
Mile High, The
Denver, CO
Motor City
Detroit, MI
Motion Lotion
Fuel
Music City
Nashville, TN
Nickel, The
Buffalo, NY
Nutmeg, The
Connecticut
OD; Overdose
Old Dominion Truck
Ovalhead
Peterbilt owner
Pelican, The
Louisiana
Pete
Peterbilt Truck
Petercar
Peterbilt truck
Pickle Park
Rest Area
Pocket Rockets
Pills to keep driver awake, usually amphetamines
Portable Parking Lot
Car hauler
Pumpkin
Schneider truck
Quick and Easy, The
QEW; Queen Elizabeth Way, Ontario
Rocking Chair
One or more trucks between the ˜Front Door" and the "Back Door"
Rolling Road Block
Slow moving police cars blocking traffic flow;
One Swift driver trying to pass another
Rubber City
Akron, OH
Salt Shaker
Snow plow spreading salt
Schneider Eggs
Orange barrels at construction sites
Seat Cover
Female in passenger seat, usually in 4 wheeler
Shaky, The
San Francisco, California
Shaky Side
West Coast
Shiny Hiney
Trucks' stainless steel rear doors
Show Me, The
Missouri
Show-off Lane
Fast lane
Skate Board
Flatbed Trailer
Smokey
Police Officer
Stagecoach
Passenger Bus; Greyhound Bus
Starcar
Western Star truck
Steel City
Pittsburgh, PA
Sugar Bear
policewoman
Sunshine, The
Florida
Swamp, The
Montreal, PQ
Tarheel, The
North Carolina
Tijuana Taxi
Police car with all lights flashing
Travel Agent
Dispatcher
Twins, The
Minneapolis/St Paul, MN
Wagon
A truck’s trailer
Wiggle Wagon
Tandem or triple trailers
Windy, The
Chicago, Illinois
White Wrapper
Unmarked white police car; also brown, blue wrapper, etc.
White Rapper
Vanilla Ice or Eminem
Wolverine, The
Michigan
Yard Dog
Tractor used to move trailers at a terminal, a driver who drives a terminal tractor.
Yard Mule
Same as ˜Yard Dog"
Yardstick
Highway mile marker
Zipper
Dotted white line lane divider
Part 1 http://www.expeditersonline.com/forum/layover-lounge/29518-trucker-slang-part-1-a.html
Hammer down
Go Fast
Hammer Lane
Left highway lane or passing lane.
Hand
Truck driver
Handle
CB nickname
Honey Bear
Female Police Officer
Hoosier, The
Indiana
Hopper Bottom
Grain trailer
Jake Brake
Engine retarder; Jacobs brake
Junk Yard
Truck company terminal
Keystone,The
Pennsylvania
Kojak with a Kodak
Police with radar
Large Car
Conventional tractor, usually Kenworth or Peterbilt
Little Road
Two lane road
Little Word
Chicken Coops are open; See ˜Big Word"
Lot Lizard
Prostitute
Lizard with a kickstand
male prostitute
Lumper
Person who unloads trucks
Mail Box
Postal truck
Mardi Gras, The
New Orleans, LA
Meat Wagon
Ambulance
Mile High, The
Denver, CO
Motor City
Detroit, MI
Motion Lotion
Fuel
Music City
Nashville, TN
Nickel, The
Buffalo, NY
Nutmeg, The
Connecticut
OD; Overdose
Old Dominion Truck
Ovalhead
Peterbilt owner
Pelican, The
Louisiana
Pete
Peterbilt Truck
Petercar
Peterbilt truck
Pickle Park
Rest Area
Pocket Rockets
Pills to keep driver awake, usually amphetamines
Portable Parking Lot
Car hauler
Pumpkin
Schneider truck
Quick and Easy, The
QEW; Queen Elizabeth Way, Ontario
Rocking Chair
One or more trucks between the ˜Front Door" and the "Back Door"
Rolling Road Block
Slow moving police cars blocking traffic flow;
One Swift driver trying to pass another
Rubber City
Akron, OH
Salt Shaker
Snow plow spreading salt
Schneider Eggs
Orange barrels at construction sites
Seat Cover
Female in passenger seat, usually in 4 wheeler
Shaky, The
San Francisco, California
Shaky Side
West Coast
Shiny Hiney
Trucks' stainless steel rear doors
Show Me, The
Missouri
Show-off Lane
Fast lane
Skate Board
Flatbed Trailer
Smokey
Police Officer
Stagecoach
Passenger Bus; Greyhound Bus
Starcar
Western Star truck
Steel City
Pittsburgh, PA
Sugar Bear
policewoman
Sunshine, The
Florida
Swamp, The
Montreal, PQ
Tarheel, The
North Carolina
Tijuana Taxi
Police car with all lights flashing
Travel Agent
Dispatcher
Twins, The
Minneapolis/St Paul, MN
Wagon
A truck’s trailer
Wiggle Wagon
Tandem or triple trailers
Windy, The
Chicago, Illinois
White Wrapper
Unmarked white police car; also brown, blue wrapper, etc.
White Rapper
Vanilla Ice or Eminem
Wolverine, The
Michigan
Yard Dog
Tractor used to move trailers at a terminal, a driver who drives a terminal tractor.
Yard Mule
Same as ˜Yard Dog"
Yardstick
Highway mile marker
Zipper
Dotted white line lane divider
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