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Old Apr 6, 2004 | 12:32 AM
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Originally Posted by ChevySniper
hey what do you call them "urine bombs" in trucker lingo?

when you uh-hem pee in a jug and throw it out the window....

HA HAHAA....
A pee bottle

If you see a driver throwing one out the window is when you call the police & turn them in for littlering.
Their are some drivers that are out there that are to lazy to stop 5 minutes some place & use a restroom. The pee in those bottles driving down the road & then don't want the urine bottle contaminating their truck so it gets toss out the window.
 
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Old Apr 6, 2004 | 01:51 AM
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and lets not forget lot lizards ....... prostitute in a rest area, or truck stop.
 
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Old Apr 6, 2004 | 03:10 AM
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All I know is never ever call a trucker "Good Buddy".
 
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Old Apr 6, 2004 | 06:06 AM
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Chicken coup weighing your wagon....weigh station open

Swift lane...Right Lane

Lot Lizzards...prositutes

pickle park...truck stop

petting the kitty....girl enjoying herself while driving

climbing the big hill...goin up a mountain

falling down the hill....goin down the moutain

crossing the creek....goin over a bridge

big puddle...ocean

jumping on...entering the highway/interstate

jumping off...leaving highway/interstate

skateboard...flatbed

dragging air...empty trailor

refer...refridgerated trailor

bobtail...truck with no trailor

eye out/black eye/winking at me...headlight burned out

10-9...please repeat

catch some winks...take a nap/sleep

these are just a few I could think of not already mentioned
 
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Old Apr 6, 2004 | 01:11 PM
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My post got edited, I apologize for my potty mouth. I'll try to keep it clean.
"Til, then, threes, eights, and roller skates, I'll be 10-10 on the side, we'll catch y'all on the flip-flop"
 
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Old Apr 6, 2004 | 06:28 PM
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Ohio- The Buckeye
Akron- The rubber city

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Old Apr 6, 2004 | 06:51 PM
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If you can understand it, you'll be fine. Some of those truckers are fast talkers.
 
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Old Apr 6, 2004 | 10:16 PM
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Here is a list I found a while ago. I'm not sure how accurate it is but here it is anyways.

Alligator - piece of tire on the road
Anchor it - apply breaks for emergency stop
Aviator –– speeding driver

Backdoor - truck at the end of the line
Back’’em off - slow down
Back’’em out of here - take a standby
Barber Shop - low overhang
Bareback - tractor without its trailer
Bean hauler - a driver who transports fruits and vegetables
Bear - Police officer
Bear den - police station
Mamma Bear - Female police officer
Full grown bear - state police officer
Beaver - woman driving a car or truck
Bed bug hauler - moving van driver
Better half - wife
Big hat - state trooper
Big rigger - arrogant driver or one who will only drive long trailers
Big ten-four - to agree
Binders - brakes
Birdyback - truck containing containers that came by airfreight
Black Eye - burnt out headlight
Blind side - passenger side of a truck and trailer
Blowing me out - doing a super job of transmitting
Blown pumpkin - flat tire
Bob tail - tractor cab driven without trailer, also straight truck
Bo day shush - good, great
Bogey - an assembly of two or more axles
Boll weevil - a novice truck driver
Bone box - ambulance
Boomers - binder devices used to tighten chains around cargo on flatbed trailers
Boom it down - tighten chains around freight
Box - semi-trailer, also transmission part of the tractor
Brake Check - when all the traffic in front of you suddenly slows down or stops
Breaker, Break - a request to talk
Break the unit - uncouple the tractor from the trailer
Bubble gum machine - lights on a police car
Bull Dog - Mack truck
Bull hauler - one who hauls livestock
Bundled Out - trailer is loaded
Bumper Sticker - car following too close

Captured - someone pulled over by the police
Cherry picker - high cab over tractor sometimes called "peach picker"
Chicken coop - weigh station
Chicken Lights - extra lights on a truck
Chief hood lifter - garage superintendent
Circus wagon - low sided trailer with high bow tarp
City flyer - short, low trailer used for making city deliveries
Close the gates - close the rear doors of trailer
Coffee pot - restaurant
Coffin box - sleeper compartment independent of truck cab
Comeback - please respond/repeat
Comic Book - drivers log book
Copy - understood, or as a question 'did ya hear me'
County mounty - county police
Cowboy - reckless driver, driver frequently changing lanes and/or driving too fast
Creeper gear - lowest gear or combination of gear used for extreme power
Crotch Rocket - motorcycle

Diesel Jockery - truck driver
Dock-walloper - one who loads and unloads vehicles and handles freight on the dock (also called a lumper)
Donuts - truck tires
Doodle-bug - small tractor used to pull two axle dollies in a warehouse
Do it to it - speed up
Drag down - shift too slowly to lower gears
Driving award - speeding ticket etc.
Drop the body - unhook and drive tractor away from parked semi
Drop the hammer - accelerate to full speed
Dry box - dry freight trailer
Dusting - driving with wheels on road shoulder

Ears - CB turned on
Eighteen wheeler - tractor-trailer combination
Eight’’s and good numbers - so long, singing off
Eighty eighths to ya - love and kisses
Eye in the sky - police helicopter
Evil Kenivel - motorcycle cop

Feds - federal communication commission
Feed the bears - get a ticket from the police
Feet - term for linear amps, more than legal power
Fifth wheel - device used to connect a tractor to a semi-trailer
Fifty dollar lane - inside lane on four lane highway
First Coast - East coast (see also Left Coast)
Fishyback - transporting motor truck trailers and containers by ship
Five-five - loud and clear
Flatbed - truck or trailer without sides and top
Flatface - cab over engine
Floater - driver without a steady job
Floating the gears - shifting gears without using the clutch
Floats - large single, instead of dual tires
Flying orders - trip instructions issued to driver by his dispatcher
Four wheeler - automobile
Freightshaker - Freightliner truck
Frilly blouse - good looking woman in a car
Front door - lead truck

Gear bonger - driver who grinds gears when shifting
Gear jammer - driver who continually clashes the gears
General Mess of Crap - GMC trucks by Volvo/White
Glad hands - air hose brake system connections between tractor and trailer
Go, break - start talking
Going Horizontal - going to lie down and sleep
Got the hammer down - accelerating
Got your ears on - do you have your CB on
Grab-one - down sifting when going up hill in order to gain power
Green stamp highway - toll highway
Green stamp - tollbooth
Gypsy - an independent truck driver

Hammer down - going full speed
Handle - code name for cb’’ers
Hauling post-holes - driving an empty truck or trailer
High speed chicken feed - methamphetamines, aka crank (also called gofast)
Hood lifter - mechanic
Horse - tractor or power unit
Horse light - spotlight mounted on cab to reveal open-range livestock
Horses - engine horsepower
Honey Bear - female police officer
Hot load - rush shipment of cargo
Hundred mile coffee - extremely strong coffee

Iron - old truck
Jacking it around - backing a semi-trailer around a very sharp curve
Japanese toy - CB radio
Jumped the pin - missing the fifth wheel pin on the trailer when coupling tractor to trailer
Juvenile delinquent - someone pretending to be a truck driver
Lying (Telling lies) - filling out the log book

Landing gear - device that supports front end of semi-trailer when not attached to a tractor
Lay down - stop transmission, let someone else get through
Lay on the air - apply brakes
Left Coast - West coast (see also First Coast)
Liar - dispatcher, or broker...mostly the brokers
Lie sheet - driver’’s logbook
Local yokel - local city police
Long Legged - fast truck, or lasting many miles/hours
Lot Lizard - prostitute at a truck parking lot (associated with playin house, or gettin a back rub)
LTL - "Less than load" This is a term used to describe a load that has cargo bound for more than one destination. Meaning that less than the entire load is being delivered to at least one location.
Lumper - one who loads and unloads vehicles and handles freight on the dock (also called a dock-walloper)

Mamma - the wife
Maniac - shop mechanic
Mexican overdrive - kicking out the gear going down grade
Mile Markers - the small signs marking the miles on the interstates
Milk run - easy trip
Minnie - less than 100-pound shipment
Modulate with you - nice talking to you
Monfort lane - passing lane
Motion lotion - coffee

Negatori - no
Nose dive - trailer tipped forward on its nose
Oakie blower - air scoop on air intake to increase power
On the flip flop - talk to you later
On the move - Smokey driving, not stopped
On the side - just listening
Out riggers - devices used for increasing width of trailers

Pajama wagon - sleeper tractor
Pancake - brake diaphragm housing
P. & D.’’s - pick up and deliveries of freight
Peanut wagon - small tractor pulling a large trailer
Pedal to the middle - gas pedal pressed to floor
Peddle run - truck route with frequent delivery stops
Peg-leg - tandem tractor with only one power axle
Picture taker - police mean with radar
Pickle Park - small rest area
Pig - trailer transported on flat car
Piggyback - trailers or containers carried by rail
Pigtail - cable used to transmit electrical power to trailer
Pike - turnpike
Pin-up - hook tractor to semi-trailer
Post - milepost on interstate highway
Pots - flares placed on highway to warn traffic of hazard
Pour on the coal - step on the gas
Power brake - open throttle while applying brakes
Pregnant Roller Skate - Volkswagen Beetle
Pull the pin - release the fifth wheel lock
Pump - amplifier
Pumpkin Driver - driver for Scheider National
Put on the air - apply the brakes
Put on the iron - put on tire chains

Rags - bad tires
Ratchet jaw - talks too much
Rebound - on the way back
Reefer - refrigerated trailer
Ride shotgun - siting in the passenger seat
Rig - tractor/trailer or other combination
Roadhog - motorist who takes more than his share of the highway
Rocking chair - second driver in truck
Rollerskate - very small car
Rubbernecker - a person who slows way down to stare at nothing (usually small fender
benders, or routine police traffic stops)

Set it down - stop quickly
**** - small city trailer
Shake the lights - blinking headlights as a warning signal
Sheep herder - driver with questionable ability
Sick horse - tractor in poor condition
Sidewinder - sideband CB radio
Skins - tires
Skunk juice - linear amp
Smoke him - pass another vehicle
Smoker - tractor emitting excessive smoke from exhaust
Smokey - highway patrol
Smokey with ears - police car with CB
Spin out - lose traction on slippery highway
Squeeler - tachograph
Straight or Rigid Truck - A single unit truck with engine, can, and cargo compartment all on the same frame
Sucker brakes - vacuum brakes
Swamper - a helper who rides with the driver

Tailboard artist - one who thinks he’’s a perfect driver
Taking pictures - radar
Talking skip - communicating with someone a thousand miles or more on a CB
Tied up - obstruction on highway
Tijuana taxi - marked police car
Toolin down the highway - driving at normal speed
Truck’’em easy - have a good trip
Truck jockey - truck driver

What's Your 20? - where are you?
White rabbit - policeman
White wrapper - unmarked police car
Woodchuck - driver with low job seniority
You got a copy? - can you hear me?
 
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Old Apr 6, 2004 | 10:19 PM
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Ok, I think it will take me a few days to read through that!
 
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Old Apr 6, 2004 | 10:27 PM
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Bronco, thats a great list!
 
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Old Apr 7, 2004 | 11:41 AM
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i would make a copy of that list to keep in my truck for a reference but by the time i found what i needed, the other driver would be outta range.
 
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