My Dog is Traffic Stopping Handsome!
My Dog is Traffic Stopping Handsome! No really! You don’t believe me? Well, here is my latest story in my Journey’s of a Professional Truck Driver series.
Many drivers take their pets with them on the road, they become a tax write off when you do so. Besides the companionship, there are financial advantages as well. Well, my road dog Thumper loves the trucker life, especially when the passenger seat is available and he can watch what’s going on. Now when I say “available” I don’t mean empty, he’s as happy to sit on top of someone in the passenger seat as he is to have it to himself.
One morning, while I was in the sleeper I wake up to the voice saying, “Hold there, I have something for your co-driver.” How very odd I think, but I’ve only been asleep a couple hours, so I shake it off and knock back out.
Upon waking up a while later I am told this story.
My husband was driving south bound on I-81 through Virginia and Thumper was enjoying the sun in the passenger seat, when we were pulled into a weigh station. He notices all the trucks are getting pulled in and so the line behind him is starting to back out onto the freeway. In the parking lot of the weigh station there are several police vehicles and roughly 20 officers, so he figures they are running a “trucker special” and looking for illegal or illicit activity.
It’s finally his turn and he pulls onto the scale, but the light stays red. It stays that way for a good 10 seconds longer than normal when a woman’s voice comes over the loudspeaker and says (you guessed it) “Hold there, I have something for your co-driver.” A woman comes out of the building and walks around to the passenger’s side of the truck to give my big sweet baby a treat. My husband was flabbergasted. He had barely been able to contain himself until I woke up to tell me the story. All those trucks and officers waiting around so my big guy could have a treat.
Do you know the Eagles song Take It Easy? Well, that’s my dog. He racks up friends and girlfriends everywhere we go and I can proudly boast, my dog is traffic stopping handsome!
If you enjoyed this story, please check out my other stories in my Journey’s of a Professional Truck Driver series in my blog. Also, feel free to peruse the rest of my blog – Keep the Shiny Side Up! for tips on fasting, dog care and anything truck related where I feel like my experience can be of assistance.
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