Well watch out for those bears and gators! and keep the shiny side up! Thus some imaginative driver long ago started calling them “Schneider Eggs” and it stuck.There are many more trucker slang words and from time to time I will jot them down for you as I remember them, but for now it is time for me to climb back in my sleeper so I can put in a full day and get this load delivered. We call them “Schneider Eggs” Schneider is a large trucking company with orange trucks that happen to be the same color as those barrels. Truckers have a special word for these orange barrels. hammer lane in trucker talk means the passing lane and every trucker will tell you “stay out of the hammer lane except to pass, or of course to move over for emergency vehicles on the shoulder trying to keep our highways safe!Īnother trucker slang word is “Schneider Eggs” When driving in road construction you will notice those big orange barrels that they use to direct traffic. Oh yeah, I almost forgot I said hammer lane. They quite often look like an alligator stretched across the road. “you mean one of those big black prehistoric lizards with jaws full of razor sharp teeth!? ” well sort of….in trucker slang a gator is a large section of rubber usually from a truck tire that has blown out. Sometimes a driver will say “theres a gator in the east bound hammer lane. The 118 being the mile post or location of the bear, and” taking your picture” is trucker slang for a radar gun pointed in your general direction. and of course there is always the dreaded full grown bear ie "you’ve got a full grown bear taking your picture at the east bound 118, driver!” A Full Grown Bear meaning State Highway Patrol. A county mountie would mean to most drivers a county sheriff.” A local yokel in trucker slang means a local bear or city cop. A bear to a trucker is any law enforcement officer. To most people a bear is a furry animal with long teeth and claws. So I thought I would jot down a few I have picked up during my life on the road. Occasionally People ask me about trucker talk, and american trucker slang words like county mountie” or bear for example.
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