Welcome, Carolyn. You've come to the right place! Don't even hesitate to ask questions. You'll find a lot of helpful people here. And in this forum there is no such thing as a dumb question. If there were, I'd be king of dumb. Well, maybe I am anyhow.
I like the turtle reference but suspect from the explanation that trucker had some additional attributes in mind that were not exactly kind, such as sloooow, like in slowing him down...