RE: Who wants to be a......expediter? Keepin' my eye on you
A reply to " Van Driver" While not knowing your gender, let me reply this way.. I think you have missed the point that I was trying to make. I'm not trying to set up a new " station", as you put it.
Rather, a different channel for those in Expediting when we are around truck stops, and want to converse with one another from unit to unit, instead of hanging out inside in the "resturants", putting up with loud noises and cigarette smoke,
not to mention whatever else... You know, or at least one would think you do, there are quite a few women drivers in our field that do not like to stop where the men do, simply because of being hit on, weather in the truck stop, the "resturant", or the parking lot..
There are also quite a few people with high moral standards and Christian beliefs that do not participate in any conversation on the radio, simply because of the TRASH that is on it..I, for one, do not appreciate some driver calling another a "MF" or any other slur words
on the radio. Those are the ones who need to be turned into the FCC. Would you, Mr. "Van Driver" like for your wife, assuming that you are married, to hear all of that garbage while sitting in a truck stop????.. Yes, all radios have a volume control and an off switch,
but sometimes we like to talk to others of our business. Sometimes we need information about where a pickup or delivery point is at. There may be that person on the radio who knows where that point is at.. Try to talk on channel 19 when three or four other radios are vying to see who has the most
power, or whose radio is the best.. You see, Mr "Van Driver", there are some of us who are not like minded, as possibly you are.
That being what it is , therein lies my reason for wanting to address the possibiltys of another channel that we, in the expedited field, could use to communicate with each while not interrupting traffic on channel 19.. Probably immaterial to you, but I have received quite a few responses to this posting that you responded to on my personal address..,
so I know from that, that there are people out there who agree with me.... One thing that we all have is freedom of speech. That cannot be taken away from us, by anyone or any entity.. This is why I carefully excersize mine. This forum allows me to do so, just as it allows you to do so.
Thank you for your time in reading this..."Timberwolf" or "T"