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

[timeless]

You might be a freight dog if you show up to work with a partially healed black eye and nobody mentions it.

 

[Birddog]

You might be a freight dog if you show up to work with a partially healed black eye and nobody mentions it.

Depends on the cause, were you arrested or did you have a date? Or both?

 

[timeless]

None of the above. My story would have been that it happened snowboarding.

 

[Hollywood82]

If you and your co-workers go to a truckstop after work...... and fit in.

 

[RefugePilot]

You might be a freight dog if

You enjoyed the thread before you were a freight dog, but didn’t get it, now you understand.

You thought you were a good pilot until initial training. You had no idea how little you knew.

You laughed hard about the thread about sh!tting in your flight bag but didn’t get it…. You now carry a large mouth Gatorade bottle and a plastic bag in the plane and hope you have a working autopilot, when it is your turn.

Your company has reduced the throttle settings and expects you to get there in the same amount of time. Where is that Gatorade bottle?

Your roommate worked for the same company but had a slightly different schedule. You’d bump into him a couple times a week. Now that he works for a regional you bump into him a couple times a month.

You got the meaning of quality time together as a freight dog with your girlfriend when TDYing; it was the two hours spent together when you went to bed at night and before she got up for work.

You work for 4 hours a day, get paid for 8 but it takes you 16 hours to accomplish the work.

When someone else screws up, it is your job to wait around till it’s resolved. Sometimes you work 16 hours and get paid for 8.

UPS is a four letter word.

UPS or a courier can be an hour or more late. But you have to explain yourself after a 4 minute delay.

During the winter meeting the CP as much as said CDL was the universal code. Why couldn’t Bob have told us that?

Your bank, doctor, dentist grocery store, and dry cleaner, are at least a 3 hour drive from your home.

You have read “Fast Food Nation” over Wendys and Jack in the Box this week. You don’t want to eat the cr@p, but it is the only thing open at the hour you are done.

You have You have 4 hours a day you can legally drink beer. Ruling out the 0900-1100, leaves you with only 2 hours. You try not to speed home.

That every piece of outerwear you own is not black. Either from buying in black or engine grease.

If you have a separate pilot shirt for Jumpseating, because you were embarrassed about the freight dog “white” shirt when you wore it in a terminal.

You feel like an imposter when walking through a terminal with 4 bars on your shoulder. Thinking if they only knew what and how you flew. You still accepted the compliment when someone said nice landing while you were standing in the aisle of a 737.

You measure the quality of the run by the layover hotel. Waffles for breakfast= good run. The fact that you are there in time to eat breakfast alone is a sign of a good run.

You spend more time during the week in a hotel room than in your own bed.

You’ve stayed in 2 different hotels within a 24 hour period.

Motel 6 used to be good enough when you were paying, but since you now live in a hotel, Motel 6 sucks.

You know when they say contact the tower at the FAF, you know to wait until you are just past it, so that you are inside the FAF when you here the RVR has gone below mins.

If you ask for a current RVR approaching the missed approach point it will go above mins for a brief moment.

 

[landlover]

If you and your co-workers go to a truckstop after work...... and fit in.

i know the feeling!! don't mind it one bit either.

 

[tinman]

Oh RefugePilot, you are definitely an AMF'er!

 

[RefugePilot]

Oh RefugePilot, you are definitely an AMF'er!

Yep I figured some of these might not apply to all freight dogs, but there is a lot of us AMFlighters out here.

As you can tell I have had some time to think of what it means to be a freight dog. Eight hour layovers gives a lot of time for introspection. I find my thoughts on freight doggin become especially clear when waiting for couriers for over an hour in sub freezing temps.

Just had another one come to mind.

You might be a freight dog if

"Ops manager is a good business man" is company speak for a cr@ppy base.

 

[AerroMatt]

If you and your co-workers go to a truckstop after work...... and fit in.

Hey! I RESEMBLE THAT REMARK!!! :nuts:

 

[Flysher]

You might be a freight dawg if you have ever gotten your outbound clearance over the ATIS because the tower guy took a bathroom break during your quickturn.