Truck Quotations

My father worked in the Post Office. A lot of double shifts. All his friends were in the same situation - truck drivers, taxi cab drivers, grocery clerks. Blue collar guys punching the clock and working long, hard hours. The thought that sustained them was the one at the center of the American dream.

Estelle Getty used the language of a truck driver, or a sailor. Bea Arthur didn't wear shoes. Bea Arthur was a comic genius. Her timing was extraordinary.

David Bowie, for me, was the butchest guy in town. Jagger was like a truck driver.

I really like to just jump in a truck with your backpack and just drive and go somewhere.

I believe the biggest challenge is just getting the courage to try something different or new. Try to forget the stereotype in your mind. Yoga is for everyone - children, athletes, moms, dads, accountants, truck drivers, even country stars.

When consumers purchase a Toyota, they are not simply purchasing a car, truck or van. They are placing their trust in our company.

Tires were so bald on the truck that the air was showin' through, and I had to drive 50 miles an hour because the vibration was so bad.

As I walk around, I have met 70-year-old women who live on the Upper West Side who love the show. And I met a couple in Kansas - a couple of truck drivers who drove around together - who loved it. It's popular all over the place and definitely in the gay community.

I love what I do, so it's not tiring. If I worked at a computer or drove a truck, I'd be dead in a week.

The old man sold beer after hours on weekends. And that was something that he probably did to top up his earnings as a truck driver. Mum was the traditional housewife. Loving, caring, sharing - always the keynotes of the family.

Oh, there's so much ego with men; in their head, they can't possibly think about Tesco's when they are doing Othello. Er, why not? They want to think that they are such geniuses they can't muddy their day with domesticity, and I've got no truck with it whatsoever.

Sleepin' in the truck wasn't so bad. Shoot, I kind of liked that, myself.

Unfortunately, this is a free society, and we're gonna have people with trucks, and people with bombs.

I don't think there's any real motivation for somebody to be a truck driver. Mine was simple; dad was a truck driver, I wanted to own one.

Whether by a Mack truck or by heart failure or faulty lungs, death happens. But life isn't really just about avoiding death, is it? It's about living.

I won't quit until I get run over by a truck, a producer or a critic.

Just about every weekend when I was growing up, we would throw rods and rifles and tents and shovels and pickaxes into the back of the truck and then head off to the side of a mountain or the bottom of a canyon. Hiking, fishing, hunting, rock-hounding: this is how my parents passed the time.

If an Englishman gets run down by a truck he apologizes to the truck.

Guess what the Redskins have? You know, I take the bus to the games, we park in the parking lot where the visiting team parks. So I go out there after the game and they have a food truck there! And the guy comes over and he cooks food for the Redskins, and they come out to the parking lot before they get on the bus and they go to the food truck!

My mother always tells me that when I was a little kid, my first ambition was to be a truck driver, and after that, I went through everything from wanting to be a Prime Minister to an air hostess, but never an actor. So I became one, and it was a great journey. I learnt a lot, worked very hard.

Pipelines are by far the safest way to transport petroleum. They are safer than tankers, safer than trucks, safer than rail.

In other words, I have no truck for anyone who goes out and does an eclectic building.

I'm technologically challenged, so I finally hooked up Bluetooth in my truck so I can talk going down the road.

I love looking out at 27 semis and being like, every single one of those semi trucks is there to put together my stage.

At school I was lazy. But I started working when I was 15, washing dishes at a local truck stop restaurant. I was really, really bored with school, and I wanted to get a job as fast as I could. School was just so easy. There was just no challenge to it.

One of the primary functions of the Best Truck is to take down these signs.

One of the great things about my resume is that a lot of opportunities to try different things pop up. I feel honored that someone would ask me to race a $250,000 truck when it's not really my sport.

One thing that concerned me was seeing Ted (Musgrave) in my rearview mirror. I knew he was saving his truck to make a run at the end of the race.

I was sitting here on this blanket so, here's the truck - maybe 6 feet.

I was running basically wide open, ... The truck was absolutely perfect.

If we get a call for a structure fire, this will allow us to download the floor plans right to the fire truck en route, ... The bottom line is it will make us faster, and speed saves lives.

I grew up on a farm so I thought driving a fire truck would be like handling a grain truck. But the first time I was behind the wheel of a fire truck, I was awestruck by the responsibility. Sure you can run a stoplight, but you have to make sure the intersection is clear before you do. That's when I realized each level you reach in the fire department brings on new responsibility. And there are more people under your wing.

My grandfather was a healer, and he used matches often. Once, he burnt a wart off my finger and then rubbed the ash deep into it, and it never did come back. When he worked at a factory, people would line up next to his truck to be healed. He died before he could teach us any of his secrets.

One time, ... I was doing 'Studs Place,' my early TV show, and I'm supposed to be quitting cigars and I'm yearning for a smoke and I quote from the 'Odyssey.' I say, I am Ulysses passing the Isle of Circe. Meaning I got these temptations. Truck drivers called in and said they liked the classical reference.

One time the truck never shut off for eight days.

One witness said the trash truck driver went through the stop sign. Another witness said he barely stopped.

One of the things that I first remember wanting to be was a 'geolisty' - that was the best I could say when I was a kid. That was right after I stopped wanting to be a fireman or a truck driver. Because my dad is a paleontologist who worked with the Smithsonian, I got to see the bones up close and the exhibits behind the scenes there.

Of course I do, Howie. If you had a truck and you gave it to me, that would be a truck-you-lent.

My dad said that the dump truck that hit me was the biggest dump truck that he had ever seen.

Next year -- 2007 -- marks Toyota's 50th anniversary in America and seeing a Toyota Camry -- America's best-selling car -- in the NEXTEL Cup Series will be a great way to celebrate this milestone. The response to Toyota's involvement in the Craftsman Truck Series has been very positive, and we look forward to building on that acceptance at the next levels -- in both NEXTEL Cup and Busch racing." ()

Now they will also look for a seal under the hood that the truck is being built to U.S. standards.

People will be able to print out the make and model, vehicle identification numbers and the price on any car or truck they are interested in before they come down here. They can walk in the doors and tell us exactly what they want and how much they are willing to pay for it.

New Hampshire has never had a repeat winner in the truck series. I'd like to keep that streak alive.

I have had 1,000 people tell me that they used to go in a pick-up truck with their father and drive up on a mountain and listen to the games on the radio. We must have had a heck of a gym because I have had a million people say they saw Jerry West play.

I got right in my truck and took off to Dayton.

Last year, when you went into Turn 3 and 1, if you had a truck on the right side of you, there was a sweet spot. When you turned, you had to really be careful.

Looks like the truck was stuck in the snow.

We're just getting one truck (of fuel) a day,

We're confident that we went through a very rigorous process in writing the final light truck standard and we're confident that it will get upheld in court.

Most truck and SUV bumpers are purely decorative.

She is lucky that truck broke down. I don't think she would have lasted another night.

Scott has shown he can be a winner in NASCAR's Busch and Craftsman Truck series and we look forward to getting him to the winner's circle next season in the NASCAR Nextel Cup Series in the No. 10 Valvoline Dodge Charger.

She said, 'We need truck drivers and National Guard,' ... I'll get moving on it.

She should have returned the truck to the vendor and if she ran into problems should have taken the receipt and defective item to the CAC and we would have taken it from there.

Kenny went in to use the rest room, and they had the toilet paper roll with the springs on the side, and he kept pulling the paper, and it kept breaking off. He said he pulled and pulled and pulled, and it broke and broke and broke, and the whole time this toilet paper is breaking off I'm in the truck and we're gone. We thought he was there.

Harold was the grand marshal for that July 4 parade. We decided to have him ride his own 1920 truck for the parade.

James Byrd at the time he was chained at the back of the pickup truck was alive, ... Not only was he alive, he was conscious at the time, and he was using his elbows and his body in any way he could to keep his head and shoulders away from the pavement.

He left to go up the street and turn around. He was going to come back and do it again and that's when the truck was shot at.

There are so many loopholes in this bill, you could drive a truck through it.

We are going to run the full (NASCAR Craftsman) Truck Series. We are going to run six Busch races and probably six or seven ARCA races. At this time, it's the best way for our program. Our ultimate goal is to get Erin Crocker to be competitive at the Nextel Cup level. We are just looking at changing our steps a little bit, and we feel that the plan now is a little better plan than we originally came up with.

I'd be sitting in my truck and I would feel someone rocking it, like you were sitting in a boat and you feel it rocking. I would get up and nobody would be there. In the morning, I saw little hand prints all over it in the dust.

I found the fastest groove, but the truck was a handful.

Fox News Channel terminated Ben Johnson, a satellite truck engineer, upon learning that he had admitted to the acts described by the Customs Department. This is an unfortunate incident and his supervisor took the appropriate action for this transgression.

Frances was a hard one. Oh, man, ... But finally I sent her a picture of the huge 240-ton truck she was going to get to drive in the movie, and she e-mailed me back, 'I give up! Men may come and go, but that is a really nice truck.'

From what I'm hearing, the UPS truck and car sort of tangled in an accident and the bus became involved later when the UPS truck lost control. The roads were just wet with a little bit of slush at the time of the accident.

FYI, the Honey Truck driver, a great guy named Les, used to be a psychiatrist. He quit his practice to clean septic tanks for a living.

From bumper-to-bumper, under the hood and from the inside out the new Tundra is a true American truck that will set a new benchmark in the full-size truck segment. It will be aimed at the 'True Trucker,' the true opinion leaders among full-size owners. True Truckers are highly credible because they use, punish, and demand the most out of the pickups they buy.

From my experience, sure, if you were a truck driver, you could be incredibly unlucky, ... But I had the feeling that I was safer than I would have been back here as a late adolescent with a car.

Given the proximity of our Long Beach branch to increasing truck traffic in and around the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, Juan's background handling cargo and trucking liability claims makes a perfect fit,

From the moment I get a request to having a truck moving out the gate is minutes, ... It's 'git 'er done' in action.

From the beginning, this truck was supposed to be for both of us. But then I got pregnant, so we're playing it safe, ... When we started building it, I didn't want him regretting anything, or buying something that he would want to upgrade later. So I told him, 'spare no expense.'

If a truck bomb came through the gate, it would need to go through several layers to get to a sensitive site. But the fact that the process folks in the middle of the plant see that happening immediately, they take precious time to take action and begin shutting the plant down to avoid a catastrophic event.

If a customer calls in and says, 'The network is down,' the service provider without having to send a truck roll can look at his network up to the customer.

I hated to see that caution come out inside five to go because I was hooked up with (teammate Kevin Hamlin) we were pushing really good and we were coming to the front. I would have at least liked to have gotten in the top 10, but for my first speedway race for me to come home 12th and my truck in one piece and just a little minor damage on the right side, I'm happy.

But when the truck came in (to Fischer), it was loaded down. When it came out, it was raised up enough that the phone cable got caught. . . . He couldn't move because it could've pulled the pole or lines.

(Car and truck drivers) have had all winter to forget about motorcycles.

I don't know why my car takes to this racetrack. It's just a magic, magic place to me. I swear I could bring a pickup truck and it would run fast for me. I wish we had 20 races a year here.

I don't know why this car takes to this track, ... This has just been a magic, magic place for me. I could bring a pickup truck here and win. I love this place.

Basically, (GM) is dependent on the new truck launch and whether it's accepted,

I have a job to do, I'm an officer in the Army, and I've got my duty to do. We're truck drivers, we're targets -- big moving targets -- and it's scary.

What I hear you saying is that we should have gotten a fuel truck in the first place.

When I pulled up, I saw a construction crew on the guardrail pointing to a truck just beyond the King Street overpass,

We take so much for granted and you can't help but to go out to these people. They need some basic supplies... water. My god if I could get some of the local orchards to throw a truck load of apples into it. Anything they could use. Just get it down there.

I looked out the window and saw a flatbed tow truck near our Ford Escort. I went outside and asked, 'What are you doing?,' and was told that they were towing my car.

Huge amounts of grain from the Midwest get shipped out through New Orleans. If grain cannot get out through New Orleans, it could be lost if warehouses are flooded or ports close and barges are stuck in Mississippi. That could have a negative impact on farm income. It would be more costly to truck it to other locations.

We may have a client who worked as a truck driver for 25 years, but injured his back so he can't do that job anymore. We'll do an assessment and help him figure out what is the best direction for him.

He used to say he would rather lie down in the middle of the street and get hit by a truck than play bingo,

He was following a truck and he says it just disappeared in front of him, and that he couldn't get stopped and he didn't remember, he doesn't know how he got out of his truck.

He did not yell anything, he did not say anything, he just ran his truck over the crosses.

He was catching up with the two suspects, ... When he caught up with them, Bryan Good turned around with a 12-gauge shotgun at close range and shot him in the chest. They jumped into a truck and started out of the field.

If that truck had rolled off the bridge and into the creek, it's heavy enough that it would have crushed them both. They were in shock, there's no doubt about it.

He was driving a dump truck by the time he was 13.

Historically, Ford and Navistar have been the No. 1 and No. 2 players in the medium-duty truck business. This is just a consolidation of the industry.

Going across the Tannai Desert was one of the spookiest experiences I've ever had. Not driving during the day; that was fine. And so we camped in an old sort of truck siding, I think. And the silence. The eerie silence and then a dingo howling, and it was just so spooky. I didn't sleep all night.

The rain began to pick up and the next thing I know the mirror on the side of my truck flew off. Then I went tumbling and wound up over there.

He's a little smart-aleck colored boy, Teddy says he's a pro. Teddy tells Maurice to get us a gasoline truck so we can fill up our cars. Maurice comes back with a highway hauler, Texaco written across the tank. The time I met him Maurice had swiped more different kinds of vehicles than any car booster doing time at Jeff City. But you're right, what's the rush?

If in fact those tire marks are from this truck, then they would indicate that this truck went around the gates. We are working to determine if in fact that happened.

What most residents are getting right now are the truck lanes of the Internet.

What do you do as a consumer to get your truck fixed?

He loved to fish, hunt, ride four-wheelers and take care of livestock. And he loved trucks. I don't care what kind of truck it was, he loved it.