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<blockquote data-quote="retiredTxfeeder" data-source="post: 1545426" data-attributes="member: 52978"><p>Yeah, not much kidding going on in feeders as far as hazing. My first week by myself I drove from Houston to Mesquite. I convoyed with a couple of real jokers. They asked me if I had ever been to Mesquite. I said no.That's all it took. We ran CB's exclusively back then (no cells) and they had about 5 hours northbound to mess with me. They told me when we got to Mesquite, I had to drive my set into a multi-level parking garage with yellow poles about every 10 feet inside and of course, it wasn't lit very well. They told me I had to break my set inside and had to back my trailers up a ramp. They said sometimes a newbie gets in there and gets in a bind. Every body else backs up on the ramp outside because you're blocking it off. Somebody will come on a loudspeaker asking what the hold up is? By now, I'm squirming...They said sometimes a driver who works up there hangs around after he punches out and for $20.00, he'll spot your trailers for you in the parking garage. Mentally, I'm trying to remember if I have 20 bucks in my wallet or not. By the time we got to the hub up there, I was sweating bullets. By now, they were all laughing at me over the radios, but we were great friends for 35 years after that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="retiredTxfeeder, post: 1545426, member: 52978"] Yeah, not much kidding going on in feeders as far as hazing. My first week by myself I drove from Houston to Mesquite. I convoyed with a couple of real jokers. They asked me if I had ever been to Mesquite. I said no.That's all it took. We ran CB's exclusively back then (no cells) and they had about 5 hours northbound to mess with me. They told me when we got to Mesquite, I had to drive my set into a multi-level parking garage with yellow poles about every 10 feet inside and of course, it wasn't lit very well. They told me I had to break my set inside and had to back my trailers up a ramp. They said sometimes a newbie gets in there and gets in a bind. Every body else backs up on the ramp outside because you're blocking it off. Somebody will come on a loudspeaker asking what the hold up is? By now, I'm squirming...They said sometimes a driver who works up there hangs around after he punches out and for $20.00, he'll spot your trailers for you in the parking garage. Mentally, I'm trying to remember if I have 20 bucks in my wallet or not. By the time we got to the hub up there, I was sweating bullets. By now, they were all laughing at me over the radios, but we were great friends for 35 years after that. [/QUOTE]
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