Howdy, guys and gals on the Interstate and points in between - hope your road’s smooth and the load aboard pays twice what you thought it was goin’ to! This here’s Nadine again, the Oldest Right Seat Cover in the world, with a thought or two.

Seems I hear people complainin’ that the driving is getting worse and worse all the time. Well, I kinda thought it was myself, but then, I don’t have a CDL so I figured it wasn’t up to me to say anything. Traffic sure has gotten thicker - why, when Miles was first in a truck, we’d honk and wave like crazy whenever we saw anyone on the road with us, because another vehicle was such a rare sight. Now we’ve got millions of folks on the road with us, an’ everbody’s in a flurry of hurry. I guess I could say that bein’ polite will help ease the road situation some, but I know at times you get cut off or someone salutes you with just one finger, an’ it’s real hard to keep your temper. Yep, we’ve been there, too. Not a day goes by that someone doesn’t call Miles an old coot. Now, that makes me mad. He may be an older driver, but nobody calls my Miles an old coot except me.

So I guess today Nadine doesn’t have any answers for you, except to say that I am so proud of all of you who are professional drivers, an’ you just let insults, idiots and imbeciles go on by. Road rage has no place in a trucker’s tool box or even his belly box. An’ that’s what I say. So long from Nadine for now, an’ remember to turn off your turn signal after you’ve made your lane change.