There seems to be a bird obsession in the trucking industry. No, I'm not talking about chicken fried steak, I'm talking about chicken coops and chicken coops, and any other chicken-related terms in truckers. vocabulary.
The general public may not be aware of this, but truckers talk a lot about turkey.
Anyone who has ever listened to CB radio knows that truckers have their own language. If a novice driver or vacationer dares to step on truckers, he quickly finds out that he is not yet one of the herds. This is what you say and how you say it gives you away.
Truckers have a way to talk. This is not diesel, this is go-go juice. This is not a magazine, this is a comic. This is not a recreation area, it is a brine park.
But the shipping conditions that revolve around the bird will blow away your feathers.
A good big setup with lots of lights is called a coop or a cockfighter. The yellow lights on the side of the truck are called chicken lights if there are a lot of them. A convoy of trucks moving fast in the left lane of the highway is called the left lane with chicken. A truck weighing station is called a chicken coop (when it is closed, they will say "Chicken Rash on a scale", "Access Denied").
It does not stop there.
Orange barrels in the construction zone are called Schneider eggs (Schneider Trucking is similar to orange in barrels). If drivers warn others on cb about DOT inspection ahead, they will tell them to put all their ducks in a row. If something is good, then it is a likine chicken. And, of course, there is no feeling like mobilization chicken.
The colonel would be proud.
All this chicken chatter goes back to the early days of trucking, when the chicken coops had to ... well ... pull out their beak to deliver the chickens from point A to point B before their death. These guys had equipment labeled and loaded quickly. They had a reputation that day, and their legend still has an impact on shipping today, although many do not know that they are the source.
Chicken trucks today do not pull out chickens at all. They pull out beef, food, furniture, cars and other goods, but they return to the day when the freight was fast, the cargo was avian, and the cargo jobs were fantasy stuff.
