COVID-19: Truck Drivers on the Front-Line - A fresh set of Risks

That still sounds like something a shady broker would say. Not a trucker, nor a broker.... But a shady broker.
C'mon now.

 

It’s your time, but personally I like getting paid for my time.

 

One is reminded that arguing with a trucker is futile.

Are we going to be going around all night on something that goes nowhere?

 

Phhsst! It's not blue or green, it's a circle.

Fine, a stalemate.

 

We live in a post respect society, you see how people drive out there. "Never let a good crisis go to waste", that's how the people who shape this country think. It's a quote made by Rahm Emmanuel, years back when he was Obama's chieff of staff.

Trucking is full of drivers who are not from this country, have totally different cultures, different value systems, etc and therefore there will never be any unified voice on anything. Ask 10 drivers the same question and you'll probably get 10 different opinions, there will not be a unified voice on anything. Kind of sounds like the USA now, in general and not just trucking.

 

Yes there was a certain culture I suppose among truckers in the 60's and even the 70's

That stopped when NAFTA was enacted and really got crushed about a few years before 9-11. I have talked about the encounter we had in the Memphis Pilot one day about the time of 9-11 with a another trucker who was not American.

One can argue he is a American Citizen and chooses to stick to everything that his homeland required of him and religion and so on. And me on the other hand in denim and chaindrive wallet, ball cap and so on was a throwback to the early days.

Times change. If i was not already familiar with the world having grown up in Baltimore, in which the whole world is there in that city if you took a little time to visit all of it. Thats cool. However trucking itself has been retired and put to pasture. I think a phrase sometimes goes like this "No country for old men"