Name: A Female Trucker | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #307
Uploaded: 2020-11-17T17:57:44.000Z
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'A Female Trucker | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #307' from Theo Von on Comedy Buff. Published 2020-11-17. Transcript available.

A Female Trucker | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #307

Today's guest, we've been waiting on and we're happy that she's able to finally
put it in park long enough to come and be here with us.
She is female trucker and that interstate bad girl, Ginger.
What type of, what type of like halls will you be on now?
So how long have you been doing trucking and then what type of halls will you
be on?
I've been doing it for about nine years now, almost nine, March, I think.
Okay.
And we haul just about everything from like Woodford whiskey.
Oh yeah, I love whiskey.
I mean, I used to.
We might haul Scott's Miracle-Gro dirt.
Oh yeah.
Just depends on who's calling for what, you know, so.
We haul a lot of AAK, which is like edible oils, oil flakes or the oil in the
bottles or the hardened grease like the lard stuff.
We deliver it to places that use it for baking and cooking.
Oh wow, really?
Yeah, yeah.
So you'll deliver it to where, like places in the Midwest kind of or?
No, we're mostly east.
Okay.
All the east coast.
So what's the longest haul that you'll go out on?
Like whenever you get your, you work for, you're a subcontractor, I guess?
No, I just work for the company, you know, just an employee there.
And I don't own any of the equipment.
Okay.
I just keep it nice so it, you know, it looks good parents wise.
But basically every truck, it's, they've all been good trucks, you know, they
haul good stuff.
You know, it's not nothing that we've hauled that's been nasty or bad.
We do haul some carbide on flatbeds, but I ain't messing with that.
And what is that?
It's a, it's a chemical that's explosive if it's wet.
So do you get paid more if you're hauling something like that?
Oh yeah, yeah.
Because that's a hazardous material that you're hauling.
You have to have an endorsement on your license to do that, so.
And they'll adjust the plates, like on the back of the trucks, a lot of times
you'll see those plates.
Will you bring those up, Sean?
Those are placards.
Okay.
And so what are those, what are those plates, what does that mean?
What are those?
It's different types of flammables, explosives, corrosives, whether it's gas or,
you know, fumes or, say, if it gets wet, it could be explosive.
So it depends on what the material is.
And who adjusts those plates?
Like, do you adjust those?
Yeah, these are the ones right here.
Yeah.
So yeah, like, do you have all of those plates on your car and they're on your
rig and they're all adjustable or you only have some of those?
How does that work?
They're like, say you got one of the diamonds and it turns like cards.
So you can pick the one you need and then you'll latch it to where it'll show
what it is, an oxidizer or, you know, it's a organic peroxide or radioactive or
poison.
It'll have that on there.
I see.
So it's all built into there.
Yeah.
And you legal, do you adjust this or does the company, whenever you take off
with the load, how does that work?
We find out what it is that we're hauling first.
And they usually explain it on your bills, bill of ladings, and it'll tell you
what to put on there, which placards you have to have.
Because you've got to have it shown in four places, which is the trailer, both
sides, and the doors.
Because DOT will pull you over, right?
Oh, yeah.
They get happy with that shit.
Sometimes they get bored.
Oh, sure.
I had an asshole one time pulling into a weigh station, literally.
And he's standing out there, first time I'd ever seen this.
And he kind of looks like just this little short shit.
Like Elmer Fett.
Yeah.
Ugh.
He's thumping everybody's tires as you're pulling in.
I was like, okay, I'm cool.
You know, I'm good.
Comes up to me and he's like...
And what is he doing?
Hitting them for what?
Seeing if there's cocaine, like drugs in them?
To make sure that they're aired up.
Oh, okay.
Well, guess what?
I had a fucking flat.
No.
Yeah.
Drive tire.
Didn't even know it.
What happened was, as I was pulling in, I ran over a freaking bolt as big as my
thumb.
Oh, damn.
So, it wasn't even hot yet.
Because when I pulled in and he's, you know, he's showing me, the tire's wiggling
off the rim.
And I'm sitting there just ready to just scream.
So, I was like, fuck.
You know.
Hell here.
You know, and he's like, well, you can't leave till you get it fixed.
So, I'm calling the shop and I'm letting them know what's going on.
And one of them throws a fit.
One of the guys you work for?
Yeah.
I was like, what am I supposed to do?
You know, radar every damn thing on the road today.
Yeah.
I didn't see it.
We got a...
Next time, I'll dodge the nails and bolts, you know.
We got a bolt at 1220.
Yeah.
Now, but got it fixed and rolled on.
They didn't give me no ticket or nothing.
You know, they can be assholes.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah, definitely.
And do you find a lot of the officers and stuff that you encounter out there, a
lot of them
or men or women?
Was it kind of mixed out there?
What, the police officers?
They're mostly men.
Yeah.
Mostly men.
And do they give you, you think, a different type of interaction because you're
a female
or no, you think?
It's mixed.
Because I actually got pulled over in Sellersburg, Indiana.
Mm-hmm.
I had a woman in front of me, kept hitting her brakes.
And when you're in the truck and you're doing 65 miles an hour, maybe 67, you
know, you
don't want to be behind somebody that doesn't know where the hell they're going.
Yeah.
You run right over top of them.
Speed bump.
Yeah.
You know?
And, uh...
Like in Mario Kart, kind of.
Yeah, no shit.
And, uh, anyways, I'm, you know, keep getting up on her ass and I'd back off.
You know, she'd stop and I'd get on her ass again and back off.
And we're all rolling.
It's kind of busy.
We're coming around this, uh, I guess you'd call it like the crossover there,
the bridge
like.
Mm-hmm.
There's a cop sitting there.
And I had just changed lanes to keep from hitting this woman into the hammer
lane.
What is a hammer lane?
That's the fast lane.
Okay.
You know, you're in the middle lane and I went to go avoid her.
And when I went back into the middle lane, he's seen it.
He pulls me over.
And I was like, what?
And how are you looking when he pulls you?
Are you looking pretty good?
I was trying to maintain.
I'm like, hi, how are you?
You know, come on in and have a seat, you know, all grinning and shit.
And then, and he's telling me what I did.
And I was like, yeah, I said, I was trying not to hit her.
I said, she kept hitting her brakes.
And he's like, I seen that.
I was like, okay, you seen it.
So what's going on?
This ain't bumble.
You know, the lip starting to curl.
And he's like, well, you know, you was in the wrong lane.
Trucks are not allowed in the hammer lanes.
You can't go in the fast lane.
And he was following too close.
Plus she was doing 67, but I'm not going to, I'm not going to get you
for that.
But is that true that you can't, what do you mean you can't go in the fast lane?
You're supposed to stay in the right lane.
Trucks are not allowed in the passing lane, in the fast lane.
It's usually the middle or the slow lane.
So that's if there's three lanes.
Right.
Okay.
Now, if there's two lanes, you can go in either one.
Okay.
But if there's three, you're not supposed to get into the far left lane.
No.
Ever.
No.
Wow.
I actually got a ticket ticket.
Not a warning, a ticket.
In Bartow, Georgia.
Did you deserve it?
It was my fault I was in that damn lane.
Yeah.
Amen.
Yeah.
It's hard to do.
But at the same time, there was an asshole Volvo driver.
Ugh.
Okay.
He's in the middle lane.
Story of my life, dude.
He's driving up the hill, right?
He's taking his dear sweet time.
Taking his time, dude.
Yeah.
Slow lanes packed.
Probably a merit trading on his phone.
I'm getting pissed.
Yeah.
And I was like, well, you know what?
I was like, fuck this.
And I got over and got in the hammer lane and started flying up the hill, right?
Well, this pecker head decides he's going to speed up.
So we're both racing nose to nose up this hill.
We get top of the hill.
There's a state trooper in the median.
Lights immediately go on.
I looked over at that fat guy.
I wanted to shoot him in the face.
I was just aggravated.
I was like, fuck.
So I knew he was coming.
As soon as I seen him, lights come on.
I was like, okay.
That's it.
I'm done.
Yeah.
So I backed off.
I let the fat man go.
I got over into the slow lane and the shoulder cop comes over.
He's a younger guy.
He's all buff and big and he's got an attitude.
Oh.
Because he opens the door and he's looking at me like, well, you going to say
something
or what?
And I was like, huh?
He's like, you know why I pulled you over?
I said, yeah, probably because I was in that damn hammer lane over there.
And he goes, yeah, yeah.
It's clearly marked that trucks are not allowed.
I said, I'll bet I was trying to pass that fat guy in the Volvo.
He didn't care.
He didn't care?
Hell no.
He wrote you up, huh?
He wrote me a ticket.
Nah.
He's like, you got to pay this.
Come on.
And I called him the day that I got the ticket and I was like, can I go ahead
and pay this
now and get it off my back?
And no, it's not even in the computer yet, honey.
You're going to have to wait.
Isn't that so ridiculous?
Like, you got to wait nine and they try to get you, I think, so you'll forget
about it
kind of.
Yeah.
So they can find you some more.
Yeah.
You got to wait till it snows.
Take your license.
One time they told me, you got to wait till it snows.
You can't pay it till it snows outside.
I'm like, what in the fuck is even going on?
What's that got to do with anything?
Yeah.
I need to pay this damn ticket.
Give the shit what it's doing outside.
I want to pay this.
We got a question from a caller right here.
This isn't live.
Just so you know, this is a video someone sent in.
Let's take this question here for Ginger.
What up, Theo?
This past weekend, what up, female trucker guest?
Wanted to ask, do you ever cut people off out of revenge?
I see it all the time on the road.
I feel bad.
You guys get cut off a lot.
My wife's cut you guys off.
She felt bad about it.
But yeah, we know there's a lot of road rage, especially here in California,
Central Valley,
California.
We love you over here, by the way.
But yeah, do you cut people off out of revenge?
Gang, gang.
Honk, honk.
There you go, Ginger.
You're on the hot seat right now.
I'll be straight up honest about that.
I've wanted to.
You know, and there's times when it's like, you know, I'm going to show you.
Oh, some little rich bitch in a damn.
Oh, no.
Sometimes it's other semi trucks.
In a damn Lexus.
Yeah.
Whatever.
And it gets kind of scary sometimes.
Oh, it's other semis.
Yeah.
It's cars as well.
Semi trucks.
It's not like it used to be.
Because when I was growing up, I always felt like there was a strong sense of
camaraderie.
You know, I grew up in my neighborhood.
Everybody had like a ham radio, you know, or a train.
What is it called?
CB.
Like a CB radio?
Yeah.
Yeah.
We still got those.
I got them in my truck.
So my mom used to date men that had CBs.
And so we always had CBs around.
Everybody in our neighborhood had a CB in their car.
Yeah.
So sometimes if you weren't doing anything, you just go sit in your car and
just talk to
people going by on the interstate.
It's not like it no more.
And it would seem like there was a lot of camaraderie between the truckers out
there.
It's not.
You could know.
You could actually be coming up on traffic.
It's stopping.
Bumper to bumper.
All you see is brake lights.
And you'll get on the radio and be like, hey, has anybody got their ears on?
Let me know what's going on up there.
Well, can't you read the goddamn sign?
It was only about 10 miles back.
And it's like, shut the fuck up.
I just ask a simple question.
And it starts getting heated.
Really?
Yeah.
Yeah.
And I told Jeffrey, I said, my son, I got the benefit.
I've been in the truck before.
And honestly, be holding the steering wheel.
I got the power.
And turn it off.
Oh, you can just shut it down.
I have to listen to you, bitch.
I'm turning this thing off.
And the people are rude.
You know, just ru