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Car-hauling
owner-operator Bill "Left-Lane"
Johnson says he's not buying the proposed
change to the official CB lingo for car
haulers. "Those buttheads over
there want to start calling us 'two-story
flatbeds' which is ridiculous. We
like 'portable parking lot' and there
ain't no good reason to change it."
Car haulers across the nation are
rejecting the proposed change.
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By Pete Zareeya,
DIESEL
JOCKEY NEWS
Ontario,
Cal. — Tempers flared
briefly during the 37th annual meeting
of the National Committee on Trucking
Lingo (NCTL) after Tony Castellano,
representing a group of
owner-operators pulling refrigerated
trailers, proposed using
"Two-Story Flatbed" in place
of "Portable Parking Lot,"
the current official term for rigs
hauling cars.
Opinions
were generally mixed among most car-haulers
in attendance, but some were clearly
opposed to the change.
"Two
story flatbed?" one driver yelled
from a seat in the balcony. "What
'er you, nuts? Well I don't like it and I sure as
(expletive) ain't gonna use it on my
CB radio!"
Other
car-haulers were somewhat less-vocal on the
matter but felt sure the proposal was nothing
more than an act of retaliation.
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Two-Story
Flatbed? Car-haulers say "No
way!"
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"This is pure retaliation, plain and
simple."
—Car-hauler |
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"You
see, three or four years ago somebody proposed
changing the refrigerated carriers from Reefer
to Garbage-Hauler, on account of them
hauling a lot of produce and stuff," one
unidentified car-hauler said. "Well,
after the committee OK'd the change them Reefer
guys weren't too happy about it. Somehow
they got this crazy idea that the Car-haulers
were the ones who suggested the change, even
though it weren't, and ever since they kinda
been after us. Personally, I think it was
the Tanker-Yankers who slipped that one
in on 'em."
Later,
NCTL Chairman, Bubba Bernstein, Jr.,
shared his opinion on the proposal.
"I
don't see this one making the list
anytime soon," Bernstein told
reporters during a smoke break.
"I mean, look, just because we
finally approved Skateboard in
place of
Flatbed at last year's meeting
doesn't mean we're gonna jump up
'willy-nilly' and start changing
everything . Flatbed was
kind of boring, so we approved the
change. But
Portable Parking Lot, that's a
whole different thing. It ain't
boring, it's been with us for years,
and everybody understands that it
means 'car hauler.' Heck, it's one of the best ones we've
ever come up with."
"If
you ask me," Bernstein added,
"this new proposal is the same
kind of radical thinking that
permanently ruined one of the old
staples. Remember Good-Buddy? It
use to mean
friend, but look at it now -- it means one of them homosexuals."
A
final decision is expected next month.
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