Who wants to be in THE TRUCKER?

Okay, you guys are passing over my Home for the Holidays requests! I'm looking for people who want to tell me what they're doing for the Holidays and what they WISH they were doing for the Holidays. My deadline is Thurs. Nov. 9, one week from today. Please respond as soon as possible including your name, hometown, kind of truck or freight with your Holiday whereabouts. You can respond to this string, if you want to be more private, email me at sephillips@thetrucker.com, or call me at 1-800-666-2770 ext. 20. I'm depending on you guys to give me the straight skinny about life on the road over the Holidays!
Thanks so much,
Susy Phillips
Trucker Staff Writer

No one is passing over your post....how would a truck driver know in ADVANCE if he/she can be home! This is not 9-5 work and home everynight.
And further more didn't you ask to be contacted by email?

Don't think that no one is interested in your colum, sure we are! We just can't schedule that far in advance!
EXAMPLE; Last Christmas, I wasn't able to see my kids, they were in one corner of the U.S and I was in another! THAT HURT!
Now I was able to spend Christmas day with some other family that lived in the area that we delivered to on Christmas Eve!
See how it works?

We all want to be in the trucker!!!....Use my full name please.....email me for details! :~)

I contacted the lady who was your editor before she moved on a few years ago and was told that anything that I submitted was subject to be edited and would not necessairly be published the way I wrote it.

That being the case I have no interest in submitting anything that may come out over my name but be the EDITORS VERSION of my thoughts.

As the other lady said, tomorrow is hard enough to plan for, let alone three weeks or more away.

I can tell you this, and its not for publication, but I will be within a few miles if not a few feet of the location where my big truck is parked on Turkey day.

Last year on Thanksgiving morning my wife and I were eastbound on I 10 We pulled into the rest area at Kerrville Tx.to use the facilties.Some people came up to us with ball caps on that said We love truckers.They invited us and all the other truckers there to join them for A full Thanksgiving meal with all the trimmings.The folks were very nice and could not do enough for us all.I had my harmonicas along and played for them.That was one of our most memorable Thanksgivings ever.They do it every year.I would like to see those fine citizens of Kerrville to get more recognition for their fine deeds.Sam

Roundup: you must be referring to Emily, the most recent editor before Scott. I never knew her, but I heard stories about her and I don't blame you for having reservations. Have you checked out Boardroom to Breakroom lately? That's our new editor's unedited version of what you guys are saying. In fact, just yesterday we had a debate whether or not to use this lady's exact words on "big ol' chunk of chicken," and he said, "She said it, we're running it." Thanks for your comment, even though you don't want it run. I understand, and it's not the first time I've been turned down.
Messyme: I WISH this job was 9-5. On press day I feel like I'm pulling your kind of hours up here from 8 until 9 p.m. depending on who missed their deadline! However, my dad is a trucker who hauls flowers coast to coast and I know what kind of hours you guys pull. I've been trying to schedule a ride-along with hime for months now, but his unpredictable schedule makes it difficult to plan anything more than 24 hours in advance. He was the one who gave me the idea to write you guys. He said most people know if they're going to be on the road or not. I don't specifically want to know that you'll be in Vancouver unloading a case of VCRs or DVDs. I really like Sam the Ham's story, but I very well know not every trucker has a great story for the holidays. But I want to know both kinds of stories, if you guys will share them.

For the record, you guys have no idea how much we depend on you, truckers, for story ideas, comments, information and a general sense of reality in the trucking world. I'm the only one on staff related to a trucker, so I have acute appreciation for you all and what you go through. So please call us, call me with your concern, day-to-day stories or anything. Our Boardroom to Breakroom is real, those are mostly handwritten letter from you guys and sometimes we have to struggle to get enough letters to fill the page.
For a newspaper on your side, you guys sure are quiet. Write us, call us, email us, whatever, just be heard. You know it's about time.
By the way, anyone else have any holiday stories or plans?
Thank you Thank you Thank you,
Susy Phillips
1-800-666-0500
sephillips@thetrucker.com
The Trucker
1123 S. University Ave. Ste. 320
Little Rock,AR 72204

If you get to Kerrville on Thanksgiving and meet those good folks at the rest area.Tell them that the harmonica playing Santa Clause said thanks and hi.