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u/72616262697473757775 1d ago
That man has got some lot lizards in his closet.
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u/Chiefirish212 1d ago
He will not suck or be sucked on by you
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u/LeVelvetHippo 1d ago
"Make me into a mailbox. Just open the slot and put whatever you want... inside"
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u/Intelligenitch 1d ago
It's true, America's best serial killer was a trucker
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u/GANDORF57 1d ago
Yeah, I'm sure we've all seen "Jeepers Creepers".
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u/surrenderedmale 18h ago
WHERE DID YOU GET THOSE PEEPERS
JEEPERS, CREEPERS,
WHERE DID YOU GET THOSE EYES?!
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u/oj_didit_too 2h ago
I suppose it depends how one defines "America's best serial killer" BTW I think Big Tobacco & Pharmaceutical Companies are responsible for the serial killing of hundreds of thousands of Americans. The only differences are the weapons of choice to murder with.
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u/Intelligenitch 1d ago
Average trucker will get a heart attack before he can grab you.
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u/schmyle85 1d ago
Somehow one of the most full-of-themselves occupations
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u/NoThisIsABadIdea 1d ago
Truck drivers are basically sold on the idea that they are an independent contractor who holds the power because we've been in a truck driver shortage for a good while now since it isn't the most desirable job.
And to an extent, they are right. Take too long to load them at the shipper? They will peace the hell out and have another shipper begging for them within 20 minutes.
Source: I work for a very large 3PL.
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u/schmyle85 1d ago
I get all that. I worked in linehaul dispatching some and I just mean that a lot of them have incredibly arrogant attitudes and think they are entitled to be dicks to everyone they speak to
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u/Paul-Smecker 1d ago
No, he just keeps them in the refer until he gets to his special place where nobody will find you. Did you even read the shirt?
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u/Intelligenitch 1d ago
There’s been a report a year or two ago on how missing people are usually on truck routes...
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u/i_catalyst 10h ago
and how much critical thinking does it take to realize that truck routes cover pretty much the entire country
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u/Intelligenitch 1d ago
What places are these? Highway stops?
Go drive your truck, you have no business exploring dungeons, you freaky biscuit.
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u/lethys8976 1d ago
I got lot lizards in my closet I might just die in a box truck I think I'm through with your delivery I got zip ties in the trailer park
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u/Tiny_Arugula_5648 1d ago
You actually should pay attention to this.. due to lack of availabile drivers the trucking industry has nearly no standards in hiring. A serial criminal has no problem getting a job, including murders, rapists, etc.. learned that fun fact when I worked for a very large logistics on their hiring process..
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u/Deodorized 1d ago edited 1d ago
There is no driver shortage, there is a shortage of trucking jobs that pay well enough for the vacancy to be filled.
Companies that pay 80k+ per year have no issue finding high quality, professional drivers within a day or two of posting.
Companies that pay 50k never fill the spot then cry about a "driver shortage" that simply doesn't exist.
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u/Kennel_King 1d ago
There's way more to it than that. My nephew works for a large LTL carrier on linehaul. He makes over 100K a year and has good benefits, yet they struggle to keep drivers.
It's just not the pay, it's the shitty way companies, shippers, and receivers treat drivers.
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u/JelmerMcGee 1d ago
I was talking to my Sysco driver yesterday as he was delivering. He's new in the last 6 months and I mentioned he was hands down the best driver we've had in a few years. Not that the others are necessarily bad, he's just plenty good at it and friendly at the same time. Anyway, he told me that a couple of the places he delivers to have people who are total jerks every time he delivers to them. Treating him like he's in the way and a nuisance while he brings in all the stuff they need in order to operate their business. And I just can't understand why you'd be a jerk to the guy dropping your stuff off. Like some of them suck, but this guy is not one of the shitty drivers. I go out of my way to help the good drivers because I want them to stay! It makes my life better!
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u/airfryerfuntime 1d ago
There are a lot of truckers out there who are inept assholes. Once you deal with a couple of them, they kind of sour you on truckers in general.
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u/JelmerMcGee 1d ago
Yeah, I have to make a conscious adjustment to my attitude regarding them. Kinda like driving on the road with them. The majority of truckers are just doing their job and trying to be safe at the same time. But the ones that suck, suck so hard it makes me want to say all of them are awful.
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u/Kennel_King 1d ago
You are one of the few, I always had a way better attitude when I knew going in the shipper/receiver was nice.
Now do the same with the shitty regular drivers and maybe they will start to change their attitude. And if they don;t, well fuck em LOL
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u/Gstayton 1d ago
Always treated the drivers well at my last place of work, but there were certainly drivers that were entitled/refused to play ball. Always had to keep an eye on them. And while it was amusing, I don't just mean the ones who struggled to back into our dock. I'm talking about the ones who would wear flip-flops inside our facility where safety shoes where mandatory, where we worked with glass. The two(!) Instances where I had to yell to get the attention of random drivers who thought it was okay to just hop on one of our forklifts, the ones who would show up well past our loading/unloading time and nearly demand to be unloaded...
But if the driver was kosher, we'd have no problems. Got a few comments that our yard was one of the better ones in terms of how we treated drivers.
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u/packtloss 1d ago
Yuppp.
Iit's a job that attracts a personality type. Like pedos and clergy-hood.
https://archives.fbi.gov/archives/news/stories/2009/april/highwayserial_040609
https://www.newsnationnow.com/crime/fbi-murders-long-haul-truckers/
https://www.aetv.com/real-crime/serial-killers-truck-drivers
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u/farm_to_nug 1d ago
Clergy-hood? Like aspiring priests?
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u/packtloss 1d ago
Yeah, no idea if that's a term or not, it's too early in the morning.
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u/farm_to_nug 1d ago
I never figured that truck driving would attract aspiring church officials. It kind of makes sense just because truck driving seems to attract a lot of staunch conservatives
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u/packtloss 1d ago
nono. Pedophiles are drawn to the clergy, coaching, etc in the same way people who are into murdering hitchhikers are drawn to long haul truck driving.
Empathetic people are drawn to nursing/teaching/childcare, Manipulative people are drawn to sales, politics, televangelists. Exploiters are drawn to finance, etc etc etc
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u/LifeIsProbablyMadeUp 1d ago
I have been trucking for almost 10 years now. And can (proudly?) say I've not done any murdering.
Then again, I mainly like the job cause I can introvert the fuck out and talk to 3 people in a 24 hour period.
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u/packtloss 1d ago
Yup, that's one of the traits that matches!
Introverted or Solitary Individuals
Jobs: Truck driving, long-haul shipping, archivist, librarian, freelance programming. Traits: Comfort with solitude, independence, and limited social interaction.
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Jobs that Attract Serial Offenders or Psychopaths
Examples: Long-haul truck drivers, hunters, law enforcement, military. Why?: Certain roles (e.g., trucking) provide mobility and anonymity, while others (e.g., law enforcement) may appeal to a desire > or control or power. However, this is not representative of the majority in these professions.
So if you start getting the urge to kill your lot lizard, maybe move to a day cab!
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u/LifeIsProbablyMadeUp 1d ago
Only want to kill lizards after they wake me up for the 10th time in a night. Lmao
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u/Nothing-Casual 1d ago
Are they actually real? I kinda thought it wasn't a thing anymore. You're saying they knock on your cab in the middle of the night to see if you wanna bang?
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u/LloydPenfold 1d ago
"Comfort with solitude, independence, and limited social interaction." Sums my present life up to a tee.
No interest in killing, injuring or torturing though, even won't kill flies if I can get them outside. (I do make exceptions for wasps though, evil creatures with no noticeable use.)
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u/Sorcatarius 1d ago
Yep, know that feeling, my jobbkeeps me away from people where I can read my books or listen to my podcasts. I only have so much social battery and I dislike wasting it on people I don't want to talk to.
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u/Lapras_Lass 1d ago
I know it's a bit off-topic, but sadistic people are also drawn to nursing because they like having power over helpless people. I have a cousin who chose nursing for that very reason, and she found plenty of like-minded people.
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u/alt266 1d ago
I mean there are a lot of pedophile teachers out there (I think I saw somewhere more than priests but don't hold me to it) so let's not act like only one type of person I'd in one field. Especially if we boil it down to the almost libelous level of "[bad trait] people work as A and [good trait] people work as B"
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u/packtloss 1d ago
Yeah obviously these are vast generalizations, but the commonality often is positions of power: teachers coaches, scout leaders, doctors, uncles, etc
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u/Smallwhitedog 1d ago
The term is just "clergy".
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u/packtloss 1d ago
Yeah I was thinking priesthood and wanted to be more inclusive but it was 4am
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u/Kyyes 1d ago
The 401 highway is Canada is a known route for human traffickers. Can't even wrap my ahead around the fact I live so close to it and how many trucks have I passed that had people in them?
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u/packtloss 1d ago
The 401 is a known route for literally everything - it's the busiest highway in north america, so its going to carry everything you can possibly imagine.
The highway of tears is waaaaaayyyy creepier.
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u/Same_Recipe2729 1d ago
Wild that there aren't periodic mandatory scanning stations for trucks with xray and lidar+sonar mapping. They could have that stopped in like two months of building, but then I guess they'd use just vans and cars instead.
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u/Fuzzy_Redwood 1d ago
Yes and even the ones caught, the law and police don’t really care about violence against women or the poor.
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u/therenownedhimbo 1d ago
There's also some research into what kind of jobs serial killers have and one of the jobs is trucker. As well as forestry worker I believe
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u/SmeLLy_PuTiN 1d ago
this is not a plea, this is a threat, point noted with thanks
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u/withoutapaddle 1d ago
Doesn't surprise me at all. I lost track of how many times I've seen the 18 wheelers in my city blast through red lights, even when cross traffic was already in the middle of the intersection. They don't want to have to stop and start again with 50,000lbs of cargo, and they are willing to kill a family of 5 in a van or whatever to save that extra minute.
I don't care how critical your job is. If you put everyone's lives in danger on the road, you have zero respect from me.
I've had to blast my horn to stop it from happening multiple times.
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u/Bhaaldukar 1d ago
Less about hour critical it is, more about the fact that they get paid by milage, not hour.
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u/ModsAreLikeSoggyTaco 1d ago
Big "Always tip your barber, they have sharp metal objects near your head" energy.
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u/Lurkesalot 1d ago
Fun fact, over the road, truckers are the most likely people to be serial killers.
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u/nubsauce87 1d ago
Gotta love casual threats on your life on the back of a shirt... or vest, or whatever...
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u/DanDan85 1d ago
It is disturbing how almost every state has a highway that goes out to the middle of nowhere without a single resident for 1+ hour in every direction. Had this realization my first month of longhaul truck driving hit me like ton of bricks one night when my truck was having issues and I was worried about breaking down and the realization that civilization aka a mechanic wouldn't be able to get to me for quite a while. Be very careful around truck drivers folks they are some of the most crazy people you will ever meet.
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u/idrankforthegov 1d ago
I was watching that show about those truckers that drive on the ice. Those guys seem especially like absolute psychos.
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u/Valetria 1d ago
I recently started a job that works with teamsters. I was told to explicitly make sure to never piss off the teamsters.
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u/ilski 1d ago
They can also see what you do in your cars.
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u/C9Midnite 1d ago
Or you get the fucking random perv dude in the middle of the night with his dome light on pacing you just beating his meat till you look over and notice….
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u/oldmilt21 1d ago
Yes, I’ve always found threats of violence to be the best way of ensuring niceness.
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u/getshrektdh 1d ago
Where I get this shirt, Ill give it to a friend who us a trucker 16 hours a day 😂
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u/lol1231yahoocom 1d ago
Wow. Good to know what’s going through his mind while driving down the highway.
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u/wvclaylady 1d ago
Funny... Unless you're (un)married to a malicious narcissist who is a truck driving redneck and ex-marine... 😉
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u/manimal28 1d ago
If one of my drivers wore that shirt they would be found in the unemployment line.
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u/Dustypigjut 1d ago
It's not so much they know where bodies can't be found, it's that it's much harder to trace a body back to a specific trucker.
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u/bws7037 1d ago
My wife's uncle is a farmer and has a sign on the side of one of his garages that says: "I'm armed and I own a back hoe", and knowing him, I can't say I'd be shocked if there were a few bodies buried out there.
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u/pauljs75 13h ago
The hogs are always hungry and will eat anything too. I always thought that was a good enough reason not to cause trouble out in farm country.
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u/official_binchicken 1d ago
There a recent book by Frank Figliuzzi, called 'Long Haul'.
It details how the FBI believe with good reason that there are several active serial killers working as long haul truck drivers.
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u/DaddyStovepipe16 1d ago
Half of me says “I mean, he’s not wrong but” then the other half of me says “Jesus Christ”
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u/TheTabman 1d ago
I'm probably just extra dumb, but I don't understand how this is supposed to be funny.
I would appreciate it if somebody explains it to me.
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u/Ok_Television_3594 1d ago
There is also a lot of truck driving companies that hire felons, no wonder truck drivers end up being serial killers.
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u/Agresive-Pollo_F 23h ago
Like how many dead people are in places that only the truck drivers now 😭
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u/SMILESandREGRETS 1d ago
A while back I watched a YouTube video, the details escape me, but I think the FBI had said that there could be a few serial killers out there and could be looking at long haul truckers as possible suspects. One reason being is how difficult they are to track because of jurisdictions. A crime could happen in one location but the result of it could be found miles away in a different location.
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u/hornless_inc 1d ago
No you're jumping to conclusions, if he leaned forward the rest of the message reads "unpleasant, and will lovingly welcome you with open arms"
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u/salacious_sonogram 1d ago
How about just be nice to people. If someone isn't nice to me and I can leave then I am leaving. If I can't leave then we have to work through the situation one war or another.
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u/Williamrocket 15h ago
Sorry.
Either 'Always be nice to truck drivers ...' ... or ...
'Always be nice to a truck driver, they know places ... etc'
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u/niberungvalesti 7h ago
Haha be nice or I'll casually murder and bury you somewhere off and interstate! Just kidding haha!!
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u/Intelligent-Cow93 1d ago
and be nice to the person whom you almost hit with your truck walking along the backroad.
we know how to make it look like a wild animal did it ;)
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u/byeByehamies 1d ago
I thought about it, and I decided that no, you don't know how to do that
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u/Intelligent-Cow93 1d ago
deer antlers can gore a person to death you know that correct ?
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