I'd recently taken delivery of a new prime mover and she was a sweetheart of a machine. She was one of the newer models with the larger cabin and very comfortable both when driving and when sleeping in it at night. I was on my way to pick up a couple of trailers that were heading interstate and I called the depot to let them know I'd be there in ten.
"Don't be," I was told. "We've had a bit of a hiccup here and everything is a mess. If you turn up you'll just have to go away again because there's nowhere for you to park and wait. Give us an hour and then call again. We should be right by then."
A bit of chit-chat followed. It turned out that some dumb bint had pulled out onto the road in front of a fully laden semi that was just leaving the depot. The driver had the choice of hitting the brakes hard or wearing a Pinto as a hood ornament. He braked and he jack-knifed, and then the second trailer fell sidewards, taking the first one with it, and then the cab. They were arranging cranes to get things straightened. The Pinto? It was fine apart from the smell when the fool driver crapped herself.
I decided to get something to eat and wound up parked in a small carpark between a strip shopping centre and a school. I grabbed some lunch and took it back to the cabin to eat.
I'd finished my lunch and was settling down to read for a while when a voice floated up to the window, speaking admiringly of my little vehicle.
I stuck my head out the window and there was this lovely young lass looking over the truck.
"You like it?" I asked.
She looked up at me and smiled.
"Sure. She's a beauty."
"Well, I'm not going anywhere for another half hour or so. Want to climb up and have a look inside?"
"Can I?"
"Sure." I jerked my thumb over my shoulder. "The passenger's door is unlocked."
"Ah, it's rather high. How do I get up there?"
"Use the steps," I suggested. "It's like climbing a ladder."
I reached over and cracked the passenger's door open so all she'd have to do would be to push it further open. She came scampering up the ladder and hopped in, bouncing on the seat, closing the door behind her.
"This is huge," she said. "There's more room in here than in my dad's car. Do you always keep it this clean? It's immaculate."
"Well I sure intend to try, but the real reason it's so clean is because she's new. She's on her way to her first job now. We're just delayed a little while they clear up an accident at the depot."
She bounced all around the cabin, and I had to explain all the extras that a truck had that the average car didn't. She really approved of the sleeping berth. She finally settled down, just looking around outside.
"This is amazing. You're so high off the ground. You can see everything from up here."
"That you can," I agreed. "If you look down you can see your friends from school passing by, but they won't see you. People tend not to look up."
"Would you let me drive it a little way?"
"I think not. Do you even have a driving license?"
"Yes. I wouldn't have asked if I didn't."
If she had a license she was eighteen, which was nice to know. She still wasn't going to be driving my rig.
"People do," I told her. "Does your license have heavy vehicles endorsement?"
"Um, no," she admitted, sounding rather deflated.
"I wiped out three of these on the simulator while I was learning. After that I had to have lesson in a pig of a truck on a special driving area. I think they worked on the theory that if you could control that pig of a machine that they called a truck you could drive anything. It was only after I passed that course that I was allowed on a real road with an instructor."
"That's a bit much isn't it?"
"If you crash your car you might smash another car or two. If you crash a fully-laden semi you could wipe out twenty cars and the odd building in the blink of an eye. You don't want that sort of thing happening."
She nodded, looking a little wistful.
"As you can see by looking around, a truckie has a different view of the world. Just looking down at the people out there it's almost as if you're a spy watching what's happening. Take off your panties. When you're driving you can see some strange things happening in cars at time. People think they're private in a car, but not where truckies are concerned."
"I guess not," she said, and then did a double take.
"What did you say?" she demanded.
"I said that they're not private from truckies," I recapped.
"Not that. Before that. Did you tell me to take off my panties? You did, didn't you?"
I tilted my head as though considering what I'd said, and then nodded.
"Um, yeah, I believe I did," I said, trying to sound surprised.
"Why would you say something like that?"
"Probably because I want you to get undressed so I can admire you naked body. The panties were just to start."
"What makes you think I'd do a thing like that? And why do you want me to, anyway?"
"Answering the second question first it's because even that godawful school uniform can't hide what I suspect is a very attractive figure. As to why I think you might do a thing like that? That's harder. Um, because of the illicit thrill you'd get knowing that you were commando and knowing your friends who are still wandering around down there, nattering, wouldn't have any idea of what you were doing.