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Trucking humor is everywhere you can find a truck--which is everywhere
Don't get me wrong. Neither trucking nor trucking humor can deliver the three L's: Love, land, or logic. But OUTSIDE of a few vitally important exceptions like that, how many things in your life were NOT delivered by truck? Not very many. It requires a huge army of trucks to move all those goods...and, obviously, a huge army of truck drivers. Even trucking humor itself pretty much needs a gearjammer to Git 'R' Done. People who thrive on long miles and short sleep, earning big bucks unless you figure it out by the hour. By that measure what a trucker takes home in a pay envelope (or more likely via direct deposit, nowadays) is small potatoes indeed. Money aside, though, how DO you stay awake behind the wheel on those long days and nights? Particularly those long days and nights when road and weather conditions aren't really all that bad, and FEAR of a wreck is not enough? There is music, of course, books on CD, radio talk shows, the usual. But for me, trucking humor did a lot. Comedy on tape, sure, but also writing my own stuff.
For example: =============================================================== America's Dumbest Along about two thousand Ah, but then they got a dispatch A day went by, and then a week So finally the bosses did The moral of the story ================================================================= No, most of our men and women hauling the goods across America are neither dumb nor dishonest. I should know, 'cause I are one. Or was for a few years, anyway. The vast majority of commercial drivers have nothing but my respect. On the other hand, you don't have to be crooked to discover eighteen wheelers are not your cup of tea--check out the video!
If you enter a trucking humor poem (or short prose) in the form above, here is what we will do in return: 1. Read it very carefully and with respect. 2. If it is clean and humorous, I will publish it on a special poetic-humor Contributions Page for a minimum of three months. (To see how that works, click on the Contributions button, then on any Name Link shown on that page.) 3. If your creation does not quite fit our website, we will let you know AND let you know why. 4. IF you want no-charge mentoring, I will personally suggest possible amendments (I don’t say “improvements” because often it’s simply a matter of taste, not quality.). 5. If you choose, you amend and resubmit as many times as you like. A point about copyright: You retain all rights to the material you submit with one exception: Poetic-humor.com receives the right to publish said material on this website for a period not to exceed one year. A point about copyright: You further certify that any and all poems you submit are your original creation(s) and that you hold us harmless from any legal action should such not be the case. Please feel free to submit as many poetic humor writings as you like; we look forward to receiving every one. With appreciation, Fred
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