Remember what you wanted to be when you grew up?

How many of you remember what you wanted to be when you grew up?

How many of you are actually doing that?

I'll bet the majority aren't doing what they wanted to do when they were kids. Sure, some of us wanted to be astronauts, but how realistic is that?

I wanted to be a trucker. The call of the open road — 18 wheels and freedom!

To add some historical perspective I was a pup during the trucker craze of the late 70s and early 80s.  What young boy back then didn't want to be like The Rubber Duck in the movie "Convoy" or Snowman in "Smokey and the Bandit?" 

But I wanted to be like B.J. McKay (and his best friend Bear.) 

There's no monkey business in this big rig. Oh wait ...

What a great TV show! McKay traveled the country in his red and white Kenworth Cab-over semi. He even had a pet chimp riding shotgun. The following synopsis was taken from www.timstvshowcase.com.

"B.J. McKay was a good-looking young trucker who traveled around the country in his big red and white rig, with a single companion, his pet chimp Bear. Although he logged a lot of miles, B.J. was based in rural Georgia, where he was confronted by a succession of corrupt local sheriffs. Tommy was a lady trucker friend of B.J.'s and Bullets ran the local hangout, the Country Comfort Truck Stop.  

"In the second season B.J. had settled down to run a trucking business in Los Angeles called Bear Enterprises. For B.J., however, corruption seemed to follow where ever he went. His new adversary was Rutherford T. Grant, a corrupt politician who headed the state Special Crimes Action Team. Grant was a silent partner in TransCal, the largest trucking firm in the state, and stopped at nothing to stamp out potential competition. Because of Grant's intervention, B.J. found it impossible to get regular male truck drivers to work for him and he had to settle for a crew of seven beautiful lady truckers."

While I never wanted a chimp, I wanted to have a dog riding shotgun — my personal furry companion on the long road.

Not to mention the women.


The Seven Lady Truckers hired by McKay in L.A. were hot. REAL HOT!

Their leader, in my young mind at the time, was Stacks. Stacks was played by Judy Landers.

Anyone want to guess how she got the CB handle Stacks? Your right! It's because her rig had two amazing chrome exhaust pipes.

What were you thinking?

So that's what I thought trucking was all about. Cruising down the highway in an awesome looking rig, hanging out with hot women and keeping a pet by your side at all times.

But I grew up and realized that trucking isn't all that glamorous.  Truckers don't look like Greg Evigan. They look like this guy

The women wanting to hang out with you at truck stops don't look like Judy Landers.  No, the women waiting for you at truck stops look a lot like this

They're called Lot Lizards and they have a Facebook page. It's true. Look it up.

So I gave up on my trucking dreams.

Being a truck driver is hard work. You're away from home a lot and your back takes a beating from the road. Not to mention hemorrhoids!

As for the female companionship, let's face it, the only beautiful and curvy women to be found at a truck stop now are on mudflaps.