Drive safe act

Realistically how long until real truck drivers are a thing of the past? A culture completely over? We see it happening right before our eyes, the culture of the truck driving has completely changed. Although the remaining old-timers out there try to keep it alive it seems like a futile effort.
I give it 10-15 years before we are truly extinct and forgotten dinosaurs.
It’s sad actually. As I always say, “just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should“. LOL I never understood why they want to get rid of the trucking industry. It provides true blue collar jobs for millions and their families all across this country. It’s one of the last industries of its kind....

 

It's funny how the people who are against 18-21 year olds in a truck are fine with putting them in a tank. I guess it's because they will be in someone else's country.

And I think the people calling a generation snowflakes are just projecting, because the ww2 veterans didn't respect their hippy antics in the 70's

 

It's too little too late. The industry has become addicted to cheap labor. Plenty of 18 year olds who could yank a engine out of a car with a chain hoist and sturdy oak tree limb were passed up for middle aged homeless just looking for a roof over their head. The industry as a whole has become so rotten you ain't getting those guys now. I believe the bill proposes some kind of thorough apprenticeship program for young drivers. That's good. Just too late. It comes down to money and politics. They will fill the trucks with Hondurans who just illegally swam across the border and race towards automation before they make the job attractive enough for kids to dream about doing it again.

 

It won't be 18 year old Americans driving the trucks. It will be cheap imported labor. So now we will be in the same boat, with three to a truck, but they will be even less responsible, and even more prone to doing stupid things. Young kids from here that can handle a truck and decide to do so will make up 1% of these drivers at best.

 

I won't hold my breath on that one, and I doubt you will either. We already have strict standards for carrying a CDL, yet how many CDL holders can't even speak English? These "apprenticeship programs" will be pencil-whipped in house, and these kids will get shoved into a truck as soon as they can figure out "D" makes the truck go forwards, and "R" makes it go backwards.

 

I dont have a issue with 18 year olds driving truck but just like older drivers many will quit very soon when they learn the reality of trucking is not what is projected on tv or movies. I drilled it into my kids 30 years ago to get educated and have a career which they both did and make crap loads of money more than i do

 

So companies will hire 18 year old illegals and pay them next to nothing and that’s bad for the industry but making those same illegals wait until they’re 21 and paying them next to nothing is fine for the industry. Ok, got it.

 

My opinion is still that most 18 year olds will have zero interest in trucking unless they’re already around the industry. A lot of 18 year olds now don’t want to work a normal job let alone be gone from momma’s house for a few weeks at a time.

 

The extra bodies from lowering the age from 21 to 18 only happens once.
That will be 3 years of people eligible.
Then back to the 1 year of bodies eligible same as before.

As far as banning people for life for making bad decisions in life. I say when people pay their debt to society ordered by a judge, that should be enough.

Keeping anyone from returning to be productive citizen is an added burden. Not only to the individual but also for the taxpayers who have to support them. No job, no income, they most likely end up in jail again.

Everyone needs to eat. If they can't buy food they have no choice, find it free or steal it. I prefer that person earning his keep and paying taxes.

 

Until tomorrow, when you're not