I Am Not Late. I Am Detained: Truck Driver Tee

Detained is not a police word here. It is what happens when a driver arrives on time at a shipper or a receiver that is not ready for him, and then sits. The clock runs, the next appointment quietly dies, and by common commercial custom about two hours of that waiting is free before any detention pay starts accruing at all.

Everybody outside the trade reads the second sentence and decides he has been arrested. Instantly, and with total confidence. It is faintly scandalous, which is why a stranger in a queue reads it twice, and it is why the gift buyer gets a whole joke at the door without knowing a word of trucking.

Filed as an arrival record with ACCESSORIAL PENDING beneath it. An accessorial is the invoice line for everything that was not the miles. Both full stops are load bearing and neither one is coming off for looks.

What it is

• Unisex softstyle tee, 4.5 oz/yd² (153 g/m²)
• 100% ring-spun cotton in the solid colors. Sport Grey is a 90% cotton, 10% polyester blend, and Dark Heather is 65% polyester, 35% cotton
• Double stitched neckline and sleeves, side seamed, tear away label
• Sizes S through 3XL
• Fourteen colors. Seven light ones printed in near black ink, seven dark ones printed in cream

Where it comes from

Custom printed in the USA. Every shirt is printed here, one at a time, on a soft cotton blank woven overseas.

Nothing is printed until you order it, so nothing sits in a warehouse and nothing gets thrown away.

Getting it to you

Free US shipping on orders $45 and up. Under that it is a flat $8.00. We make it after you order it, which takes 2 to 5 business days, and it then takes 3 to 4 business days to reach you from a US facility. Most orders arrive in 5 to 9 business days. You get a tracking number by email as soon as the label is created.

Care

Machine wash cold, inside out, gentle cycle. Tumble dry low or hang dry. Do not iron the print.

The Natural colorway

Natural has small dark speckles through the fabric. That is the undyed cotton showing, and it is expected rather than a fault.