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.

We are pretty good. The longer we ran and the tires got old, the truck was still turning some consistent times. I think we are going to race very well. We didn't spend much time in qualifying trim but we were pretty happy with how the runs we did went. I am looking forward to qualifying and then tomorrow's race.

We've accumulated more than 40 awards for F-150 over the past two years. We simply know truck customers better than anyone else.

When we were asked to go down there and help, the city only had four hours to make a decision, ... They said at the time that they couldn't send the men or the truck because of budget constraints and I respect that decision.

When I was in high school, we would load up out-of-state hunters in a 1955 International pickup truck and tell them to hang on. We would bring them back after the hunt, dustier than heck and they would give us some cash.

We found that a slick truck can also be on the edge in the draft. We found last year that we want a fair amount of drag on it because during the race, drag means grip. There's kind of a fine line. I think you want to build a truck that has a little bit of drag.

We bought a ticket and got up in the stands. We got there fairly early and were sitting for what seemed like a half hour, 45 minutes, when all of sudden, here comes my truck and my car across the track. I told Darlene, 'I can't believe Big John (Boettcher) brought my car up here.' So I raced. That was my honeymoon.

We bought a ticket and got up in the stands, ... We got there fairly early and were sitting for what seemed like a half hour, 45 minutes, when all of sudden, here comes my truck and my car across the track. I told Darlene, 'I can't believe Big John (Boettcher) brought my car up here.' So I raced. That was my honeymoon.

We both took risks because Todd and I both know on a speedway like this, the spinning truck will drift down the banking, ... But the fans got to see something pretty awesome.

Years ago, when I was doing the show Southern Expressions, Scott had just come to work here. Scott was the shooter for the event. He hooked up the camera to the back of the truck, and then he had the truck tow the car I was in, and he shot the scene through the windshield. From that moment, I thought this guy has got something going. He's something special.

With the intensity of the first three NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series races at Atlanta Motor Speedway, fans have been treated to exciting finishes each race. Fans can expect nothing less than the same for the John Deere 200.

We're hoping that every truck company in the job will get one of these things. This is something that's going to save lives, not only firemen but civilians.

We know how important the truck market is.

Childbirth, as a strictly physical phenomenon, is comparable to driving a United Parcel truck through an inner tube.

Although they [light and medium trucks] have only 5% of the transportation market..., they account for fully 35% of greenhouse gas emissions from freight transportation.

We're still moving. Truck lines are getting a little long and some frustration is building, but things are moving.

We're seeing all kinds of boxes, cardboard, bags, wrapping paper and packaging materials, and soon we'll see an increase in yard waste when people start taking their Christmas trees down. We have an influx of garbage every Christmas. Our truck drivers are hauling the containers as fast as they can.

When your house is on fire, you don't care who's logo is on the truck or what race is in the uniform. You just want good service.

We actually got it from a guy that works at a U-Haul truck place in Berkeley. He thought that the three of us all looked very similar to one anotherwe all had on glassesand he asked whether we were all brothers and we said no and he asked whether we were all scientists. We said that we were not, but that was the theme of the name.

You don't simply bundle people onto trucks and drive them away...I prefer to advocate a positive policy, to create, in effect, a condition that in a positive way will induce people to leave.

Fire truck with back end on fire drives really fast in circles.

I looked over at her; if women knew how good they looked in the dash light of oversized pickup trucks, they'd never get out of them.

It turns out that speeding irresponsibly in a large truck, placing personal wealth ahead of the welfare of others, is one of the greatest sins in the Universe...

We did get a couple of things back. Some of it was in the truck and some of it was in a garbage can outside (of Valley Truck and Trailer) in the pouring-down rain. I actually had to dig through the garbage cans to get some things back.

Where I come from your truck is a reflection of who you are.

We've been in the truck for 30 hours. There were people sleeping in their cars on the side of the highway.

We're absolutely committed to being a player in the full-size truck market,

We ran out of regular unleaded today (Monday). I will not be able to get another truck until Tuesday morning, but we still have the super unleaded gasoline.

We ran out of regular unleaded today (Monday), ... I will not be able to get another truck until Tuesday morning, but we still have the super unleaded gasoline.

We're an International truck dealer, sales, parts and service.

That's where I live, a junkyard in a neighborhood of junkyards. We have three tractors from the 1940s and '50s, several old pickup trucks, and a pile of scrap metal.

I do know when you look at some ballplayer and all of a sudden he is the size of a truck something is wrong.

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.

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

Looks like the truck was stuck in the snow.

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.

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 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.

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

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

Most truck and SUV bumpers are purely decorative.

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.

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

One time the truck never shut off for eight days.

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.

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

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.

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

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." ()

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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 got right in my truck and took off to Dayton.

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 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.

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'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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.'

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.

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.

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.