Tag: language

Why language is important

Wendy on Congressional move to institute lifetime CDL ban for human traffickers: “Language matters, especially when crafting laws. You see, laws are a lot like lies, the more specific and convoluted you make them the easier it is for them to be picked apart.”

July 19, 2017

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Truck cleaning 101

What “do you need your truck cleaned” really means — and how Wendy found out. “Wow. If only people knew how wrong they are about truckers being dirty. They even have truck maids, and there are a whole bunch of them in Memphis!”

November 18, 2015

“Hi! We’re here to clean your truck!”

Trucking contributions to the English language

Of “bumblebunnies” and “jerkoids” and other creative four-wheeler classifications — “Screaming expletives all day gets old, even for me. There’s only so many times you can yell the word before it loses effectiveness.”

November 9, 2015

“Captain, we’ve spotted a jerkoid directly ahead.”

Learning to become a truck driver — and to cuss like one: ‘A Trucker’s Tale,’ part 2

Part 2 excerpting Ed Miller’s “A Trucker’s Tale” memoir: “Tt seemed that every grown man used several cuss words in every sentence. I practiced to myself enough that I could cuss with the best of them before I was out of elementary school. …”

June 25, 2015

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Excuse me while I use my vernacular

“It’ll be nice to be back on the road,” Wendy says, where people understand it.

January 2, 2015

Copy, westbound?

Deciphering CB gibberish

An accident intel report up ahead tells Wendy Parker that “the President is in the median with flying elephant scrotums and frozen walruses! I’m a nurse, I have to help!”

October 31, 2012

Does the EOBR mandate have another problem?

Some believe the electronic on-board recorder mandate written in this year’s highway bill could well be impossible to achieve, given the legislation’s language defining the electronic logging devices.

July 11, 2012

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