Gi-Gi Roxx - The Ravings of a Lunatic

Well today I experienced the welcome waggin'... Yep. Dude in a car, windows down, fly down, going full throttle on his wiener. He was pretty proud of himself, and honestly I can't blame him, he did have a good sized trouser snake he was wrestling while simultaneously trying to drive. He got a little camera shy though, while I was trying to get my Cannon out of the overhead, fumbling with the power switch he realized what was about to happen and slowed down so as to not be in my direct line of vision. Oh well, another time I'll snap a pic of a guy whacking off in traffic. In the meantime, you can enjoy this video a friend shared with me awhile ago about such a topic.

Thanks to Trucking Tiger for these ten fabulously fun questions! You got questions? Send them in! 1. Name your top 5 states that you love, in order from 5-1. WV cant be included. 5) Wisconsin 4) North Carolina 3) Georgia 2) Pennsylvania 1) Utah I love these five most (since I can't put WV on the list) because of their natural beauty more than anything. 2. What is the weirdest animal you have seen while driving a truck? Honestly I think it was what I call the Thunderbirds. I thought were going to attack me at a rest area in BFE Nevada. I was out in the middle of nowhere, miles from anything and pulled into this little wayside with rustic facilities and found myself shocked by the size of the three birds that were standing by the trash cans. They were normal size trash cans and the birds were TALLER than the cans. They scared me. And I tried to get a photo of them but I was unable to snap anything that wasn't blurred even though I wasn't walking while trying to shoot......

Just been trucking, taking a few days off and back to trucking. Nothing too exciting to report. Unless you count sitting on the side of a mountain while a clean-up crew opens the road at the top of the mountain where a big truck lost its brakes and slammed into the cliff wall exciting. I didn't get to see the accident site, it was much farther up the mountain from where I got stopped, behind a LINE of big trucks waiting to pass. I did, however, see what was left of the big truck as two separate wreckers brought both the tractor and the trailer down the mountain about an hour and forty minutes from the time I took my place in the line of trucks. And I did also see the mangled mountainside where the crash had actually occurred once I got moving. It was a nasty accident apparently. They took the guy out in an ambulance and allegedly met with a life flight chopper to get him to the hospital stat. The fellas in front of me, all milling about outside their trucks, talking and killin...

I have a lot of very special mothers in my life these days. My stepmother , my family members and so many of my friends, all wonderful mothers. I wish them all a very special day today, and everyday, as they navigate the roads of motherhood. But honestly, I've always felt like Mother's Day only is for the one woman in my life who made me, raised me, and guided me through the trials of growing up. My mom was a wonderful person, with her own special sparkle in the world of motherhood. She wasn't perfect, by any means, but who is? But, despite her faults and imperfections, she was the perfect mother to me. I will always keep her in my heart, day by day, missing her, yet feeling as if she is with me always. My siblings and I lost our mother on New Years Day 12 years ago. But though she is not with us in body, she will always be with us in spirit. Guiding us, keeping us safe, and reminding us that her love is eternal. Barbara Ann - 3/8/1953 - 1/1/2000

I have three plus one questions from anonymous posters I'll be answering today. Keep the questions coming folks, and if I haven't gotten to your question(s) yet just give me time! 1) Why did you choose otr trucking as a career? I love driving and love travel and wanted to see the country. I also have had trucking in the back of my mind for many years before I finally jumped ship and decided it was time to sink or swim in the world of transportation. I can remember countless instances where I would tell a friend or family member that being a truck driver just seemed like something I'd quite like to do. And as it turned out, it was a really good fit for me. Plus how awesome is it that I can drive a big rig? Pretty awesome if you ask me. 2) Why did you leave otr trucking for awhile and then return? I could give you a generic answer that is a common answer I give when people I know in the industry realize I'm back after just over a year off... which is typically "I...

Round one of questions is in response to the top ten questions that were on The Daily Rant 's mind. She's always got great questions for these Q & A sessions! But don't fret, I'll get to the rest of your questions soon. I have gotten a great response and have been thrilled to see so many of you sending in questions! ....on with the show. 1. Do you feel better going to work every day now that you’re out of the bus and back in the truck? Are you happier? Yes and yes. I have a few mornings, mostly the ones where I have to get up by 4 am that I drag my feet and dread "going" to work. But overall, I don't find myself feeling that overwhelming sense of horror knowing I have to go to work each day. No no, those mornings are a thing of the past. Thank goodness! So, to answer your second part of this question, means my world is a lot brighter happier place. Happy Gi-Gi. 2. Now that you’re married, is it different being away from h...

I want your questions. Hit me with your best shot. It's been AGES since I've done a Q & A session. Send your questions to me via email gigi@gigiroxx.net or submit them as comments on this blog and I'll post my answers to as many as I can in an upcoming blog post. And..... Go!

Once upon a time I had a friend who just couldn't accept it when I said that I was being hurt by the words that came out of their mouth. Degrading and demoralizing terminology passed from this persons mouth to my ears on a regular basis. It was when I realized that what was once joking had turned to mocking and then took a sharp turn into malice, that I knew I had to stand up. I finally asked my friend to stop saying those things to me, explaining that they hurt my feelings and made me confused in their intentions as my friend. They refused to stop using the hurtful words, refused to apologize, and then got upset and dumbfounded when I ended the friendship. That is just one example of a toxic friendship that I have ended over the years. Sadly there are just shy of half a dozen similar cases in my life where I have had to say goodbye to friends because keeping them around would just bring me down to a level I wasn't comfortable with. I can't and won't allow myself t...

I'm all atwitter. I love it. It's ALL of the awesome. Since joining the Twitter ( get over it I call it THE twitter ) I've found a new lease on Internet life. I felt like FB was getting a little stale ( and always overly dramatic ) and my blog is often the subject of ridicule because of it's lameness ( you know who you haters are ). But the Twitter is all new ( to me ) and exciting and I'm really having a good time over there. So follow me @truckerroxx Seriously, follow me on the Twitter and I'll follow you back (but only if you tell me you found me via my blog). You can read my tweets, then point and laugh at me. And I'll do the same back at ya. On a different level a la real life. Today was a long one. So was yesterday actually. I mean, 24 hours?! That's a bit much, right? Yesterday I started off in Greenville, VA heading up the I-81 to my delivery point in Royersford, PA. Once I had taken care of that bit of business, I was set to pick up a ...

Well I hadn't anticipated sitting around today. I left the truck stop and made it to my delivery location earlier than I'd expected, but then I remembered it is Saturday and traffic in Atlanta isn't nearly as terrible on the weekends as it is during the week. When I got to my delivery point things went well. I got in, dropped and parked out of the way waiting for my next work assignment. I was about to give up waiting and grab an empty and head over to a truck stop but just as I'd made this decision I got my next dispatch. The load was picking up at right where I was at. I went into the dispatch office at the facility to inform them I was picking up instead of just grabbing an empty and was told that the load wasn't ready yet. Of course. She disappeared for a few minutes and returned with the news that the load wasn't even scheduled to be loaded until around midnight. And of course, if I left the property I was going to require an empty to return to pick ...

Dude, I just paid twenty bones for two pair-o-flip-flops at a truck stop. They're both pretty fabulous. Check them out FLIP & FLOP . They're sparkly and awesome and make me smile. So there. Of course that's really about as exciting as my week has gotten. It's been pretty blah overall. The start of it I guess was kind of interesting. I came off of home time and had been bobtailed home for the weekend and knew that was going to create some havoc when it came time to get back to work. Living in West Virginia it's tough to get an empty trailer as there aren't a lot of locations where our empties just sit. 9 out of 10 loads coming out of WV are live loaded. My work assignment had me picking up an empty trailer at a Freightliner shop over near the Kentucky border. Typically this means a company comrade had been towed into the shop after breaking down and the trailer he'd been hauling was removed from his rig and parked so the tractor could be worked ...