That’s the sign I saw on the back of a Schneider tanker truck yesterday.
Now normally I probably wouldn’t pay much attention to a sign like that. Things are going reasonably well at our little company, and while I may like some extra income, the hours spent driving probably wouldn’t help my back. I certainly wouldn’t be able to do much other work while there, so that would severely limit my availability to other clients.
Anyway, the thing that caught my eye was that a part of the sign appeared to have been spray-painted, so that it was not legible. That in itself wouldn’t be eye-catching, either, but the part that was spray painted was the part of the phone number that comes after 1-800, and that I found puzzling.
Maybe it was done by a dock worker who was supposed to remove the sign from the truck and couldn’t figure out how to separate the sign from the truck body. So instead he (or she) improvised. I like the creativity. But what I don’t get is why he (or she) would leave the 1-800? For that matter, why leave anything on the sign for someone to read?
Perhaps it was the work of a vandal, someone who wants people to get excited about working as a truck driver, then be disappointed because they can’t find the whole phone number to call. That doesn’t make much sense either.
Then again, maybe it was a truck driver. Someone who has time to read the paper and hear all the dire predictions about job conditions, and figures that if there is a line of applicants waiting, their own job is that much less safe. Now that explanation makes sense, in a twisted sort of way.