Let's Hear it Folks ! You Might be a FR8DOG if......

[RefugePilot]

You might be a fr8dog if...

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You might be a freight dog if.............

You spend so much time alone in a hotel, you loose site of whats apropriate to post on the "You might be a freight dog if............." thread.

You land at an airport 5 days before Xmas to have 30+ brown trucks waiting for you.

Your company is currently pestering the FAA to waive the 24 hours off in a 7 day period, so people can fly X-mas eve.

If your co-workers doubt they will get time and a half for working Xmas eve.

Your co-workers are comparing flue-like symptoms for just such an occasion.

 

[Flying Illini]

I think I just became a *real* freightdawg, I just had Taco Palenque in LRD for the first time...and I had it at breakfast time but it was dinner for us.

 

[DirtyBeech]

Hey, Taco Palenque is one of the better places you can eat down in that lovely town.

You might be a freightdog if.....

You know all the good AM radio stations in a 5 state area, and can navigate by them in a pinch.

....and you have to routinely debate whether you should tune in the kooks on AM Coast to Coast, or soldier through another broadcast of the Midnight Trucking Network.

....you've used your aircraft to move crewmembers from one outstation to another, and had your F.O. sleep the entire flight on the sofa located in bay 1.

....you've ever spilled a Big Red on your shirt only to have MX assume it's hydraulic fluid from your aircraft, and not even wonder why you didn't write something up.

 

[hawk16e]

The Sofa?

....you've used your aircraft to move crewmembers from one outstation to another, and had your F.O. sleep the entire flight on the sofa located in bay 1.

In the Falcon 20, engine plugs worked as a bed.
In the DC-9, if you don't bring a cot or sleeping bag, you can stretch out behind the f/o, feet behind the cap's chair,head propped up on the o2 tank.

 

[ratherbeflyen]

You know all the good AM radio stations in a 5 state area, and can navigate by them in a pinch.

....and you have to routinely debate whether you should tune in the kooks on AM Coast to Coast, or soldier through another broadcast of the Midnight Trucking Network.

HAHAHAHA

Thats awsome. I used to know all the freqs. to listen to good ole George for a 300 mile radius from Dallas. I found all the freqs. by just clicking the adf 10 at a time untill I found the same program with a better signal then Xchecked where the adf was pointing.

Now it seems like your a freight dawg if you even know what an adf is..... That was a great laugh for me.

 

[landlover]

if you send the de-ice truck to you car when your 10 miles out!

 

[Rouge Warrior]

when you know all the ICCS people in mexico by name

 

[idoitupsidedown]

I found all the freqs. by just clicking the adf 10 at a time

I'm so glad I'm not the only one bored enough to do that. I've had nights that I'll go through the entire range 2 or 3 times, hitting every freq, hoping that I missed a good on the last pass.

 

[TWA]

If your car and plane both require jumper cables on a regular basis.

 

[tathepilot]

at night.. the only way you know its raining outside... is if its raining inside!

 

[Flyingdutchman]

Thanks my fellow brothers in crime u crack me up.. keep 'm coming!

5 legs down, 3 more to go.. Cant wait to get back to my hotel at 6AM for my before breakfast beer!

From a cold cold cold city in tha mid west,
FD

 

[MACH-TUCK]

You know your a FR8 dog when you make UPS trucks wait for you while ya buzz ur Buddies in the duck Blind and look for Deer.


God I Miss flying my Quenn Bee.

 

[Leargear]

"Your work clothes" and your "work" clothes are the same!

 

[JediNein]

When you're glad Chuck Norris is not a freight dawg, 'cause he'd just kick the cargo to the destination. And it'd arrive early, and in as many pieces as Chuck desired.

 

[Fedora]

If your crew stands in the unmoving hotel elevator for 30 seconds before someone realizes that you're so tired that no one pushed a button.

 

[RefugePilot]

If you stopped taking your sunglasses home during the week.

You don't get to see it during daylight.

 

[b707guy]

You're all dressed and ready to go when your PFE knocks on your door and says "Did you hear what just happened?"...

 

[TxPilot0878]

Youve ever gotten paged and called numerous times before your green....and the 1st thing you hear when you call is "AMERISTAR MARK"....at that point you realize your a freight dawg and that it is going to be a very LONG DAY!!!!!

Tex

 

[Leargear]

When breakfast is pizza and beer and dinner is cereal.....

 

[727C47]

when you stop at a stoplight driving home,and wake up to find its green,and everybody behind you is honking....

 

[b707guy]

...if your idea of a good on-the-road exercise program is the 9 a.m. climb into bed after a carb, fat, and sodium rich "dinner".

 

[richav8ter]

You have been told you've sinned, for thou shalt not turn on course before passing the tower. ( RDU, ATL or any place with a midfield CT)

What you said speed and alt permitting?

 

[Fedora]

You're running two hours late and no one cares about f**king connections!

ATC asks for a ride report and your response is: "no complaints from the back"

Breakfast is the most important beer of the day

Your taxi driver has no idea where on the airport to take you.

 

[Mahi]

You've been through LRD customs enough to know that the "tall" urinal will flush and spray water all over you when you walk up. So you use the short one and laugh at the copilot who doesn't know better.

 

[TxPilot0878]

-if you know "AMERISTAR MARK!,"
-"They put the Otis Spunkmeyer Cookies away!,"
-"The Crew car is broke and magically fixes itself when the red carpet is rolled out!,"
-"You ask for descent hotels and you are quoted an hourly price!,"
-"When the guy you are flying begins looking attractive(fuc*oph...yall know after 20 days on the road its time to see women)!,"
-"When you don't recognize a single girl on FBO Hotties.com!"
-"When you walk up to the hotel and the girl behind the counter takes a "Cigarette Break",'!
-"When myspace.com is your idea of meeting the local girls!,"
-"When TOWER tells you to park in the back 40!,"
-"When the hotel manager comes to your room and asks that you stop looking at THOSE kinda websites...and you are using wireless!"

I MISS IT!!!!

 

[Way2Broke]

Man I love this thread. Its one of the Flight Info classics. What a great way to burn hours when you should be sleeping but can't because your internal clock is so screwed because you angered the pager gods.

 

[hawk16e]

You've been through LRD customs enough to know that the "tall" urinal will flush and spray water all over you when you walk up.

And you might have been doing this too long if you know where customs in LRD used to be. (across the field)

 

[belchfire]

When it takes you 38 hours over five days to get from the east coast to the west coast...you might be a freightdog

 

[727gm]

You might be a freight dog if:

You fly a four-engined glass-cockpit airliner from Western Europe to Southeast Asia and the crew meals and drinks are kept in styrofoam and plastic picnic coolers strapped to the floor.

 

[RefugePilot]

You might be a freight dog if:

You fly a four-engined glass-cockpit airliner from Western Europe to Southeast Asia and the crew meals and drinks are kept in styrofoam and plastic picnic coolers strapped to the floor.

I am not sure you can still be considered a freight dog any more if your company provides in flight meals or you fly a glass cockpit. Next thing your going to tell me is you don't have to unload your own plane.