have all the truck drivers gone?
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Geee...I dunno.
You reckon the truckers got tired of being treated like sub-humans (worse than animals), segregated from the 'quality folk', lied to, ripped off, abused by the cops and government and never allowed to go home?
I dunno how many times I told dispatch. "Hey...I'd like to be home for Christmas," or thanksgiving..or my son's birthday.
They said "Sure"...then dispatched me the Other way.
Gee...you think that might have anything to do with it?
To be a trucker for the last thirty years a guy had to love to drive. He had to love to drive MORE than he hated putting up with the crap. A lot of us were VietNam Era Vets....we knew first hand about the crap. For many of us being alone was better than putting up with people.
Driving a truck was being alone. Solitary confinement with a view. Most prisoners in jails had a better deal.
Now we're retirement age...and leaving the industry.
Suddenly the Trucking Companies can't find anyone who wants to work for free. $80,000 she says? For 'on-call' 24/7? Cause that's what you do. You're married to the damn truck...it's your responsibility..twenty four hours a day..
The pay per hour is less than working fast food ....and you don't even get fries with it.
Gee...wonder where all the truckers have gone...?
My Dad has even given up trucking. He said job security isn't what it was. I didn't ask but maybe all the talk about autonomous self driving trucks got to him....
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You don't think being treated like dirt had anything to do with it?
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He never did long-haul like you did apparently. He did heavy equipment and log trucks mostly. But then the damned "spotted owl" fiasco happened in my area and driving truck began it's downhill slide....
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I did heavy ER equipment. I considered my rig to be empty unless it grossed more than 100K.
AND long haul.
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Yikes! What is "ER" equipment?
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heavier...heavy -er
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Lol, now I get it ;)
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I am married to a truck driver and the refulations these boys have to follow is outrageous. He has been hauling cattle because its a little more lax but a lot harder load to carry.
I respect truckers, always have just because of the fact theres no shame in working for a living.
Sadly, there are going to be shortages across all actual working class industries in the next few years. Think truckers and nurses they people who actually do the work for reasons other than respect and pay. Its very alarming and sad that both industries have been regulated to the point its too hars to recruit, train, and keep workers.
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they're gonna have to drastically raise the pay or else go the way almost everything else is going, it seems, and that's to hire Mexicans or people from India or Central America.
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hire Mexicans or people from India or Central America.
done that...AND eastern Europe.
decades ago.
didn't work.
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why didn't that work?
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that is not a lot of money, for the price you pay..
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I know that for a fact.
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....and yet we need them to get goods and services to their destination!
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yes you are right @everittdmickey his life face many problem!!!
but if we want we help them and make happy!!
but soo sad!!
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I thought I would like to be a trucker when I was young. Luckily I realized that I didn't have the tolerance for stupidity required for the job before I went down that path. I believe a person driving a small tin can that jumps in front of a multi-ton rig and hits their brakes should be crushed by said rig, thereby reducing the stupid population and ending a danger to the gene pool. A great public service in my mind. How hard is it to realize that a trucker needs room to gain speed going down the hill to have the momentum to get up the next hill or that they can't stop all that weight on a dime? Through the years watching the ever increasing regulations, paperwork and law enforcement harassment, I knew I made a very wise decision not to be a trucker. Thank you for your service to this country in Nam and keeping our economy moving through your career as a trucker. My hats off to you.
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that and for the last few years they have been telling kids that self driving trucks will put them out of the job, of course it might be 20 years before that happens, or maybe the shortage of drivers willing to work at the wage they offer will lead to higher wages and/or an acceleration of the adoption of self driving technology. How much would it take to get you back behind the wheel?
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how much would it take for you to do self mutilation?
at one time I enjoyed it immensely...but the job changed.
I think I've spent enough time in the bulls eye.
"officer...I had an automobile accident'
"Was there a truck anywhere nearby?
"There was one two or three miles away..two blocks over."
It was probably the trucker's fault".
(true story...happened to me)
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I sleep on a bed of nails for free but I don't think I would return to my old job for any amount of money... less than half a million a year and even then I would have to think about it.
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