Trucker IQ

I can count to 21 without my clothes on.

 

I have a few different opinions on this. Usually more intelligent people enjoy the alone time.

Also some of the people with a lot of education and what most would consider great stations in life, are much to the benefit of opportunity as their own doings.

In america, everyone says that there is equal opportunity for each person to succeed. But what I want is an explanation, on how a person such as myself who graduated in the top 5 in my high school class is supposed to succeed when I was the product of a single parent raising 2 children, having to work to help make ends meet, had to make my own car payments and in that time its hard to make a car payment and go to college and get a higher education. In fact just finished my 2nd and probably final attempt at college but there is too much extinuating circumstances in the life of a person living in the lower middle class to go through college.

I have been tested and although not a truck driver at this point, my last job title class was Truck Driver. I have an IQ that on 2-3 different tests varies from 134-148.

IQ and book smarts, I found out quick do not get you far in the working world. Common sense gets you about 98% of places.

 

Don't lie driver, we all know you can't see over your table muscle.

 

You forgot about mirrors.

 

Education & Intelligences don't mean a #### thing if you don't have the common sense to apply them correctly.

####, I'm going to email the government right now & tell them that same thing!!!!!

 

On IQ tests given at the Workforce Development Department I scored 158 the first time, and when they didn't believe it was correct, I had to go back and do it again, and tested at 162. I have driven a rig, and would gladly do it again, if I ever had the chance. I like the peace of it.

 

preaching to the choir now... During my senior year I was accepted to Columbia(the same college Obama attended as an undergrad.) Unfortunately there was no way I could trek across the country, go to school, keep a car and help my mom with my younger brother.

We'd be in a lot better position if the government was filled with people like us who actually have to WORK for a living and not sit around thinking they know what is best for 99% of the country making less than 250k in which none are a part of.

 

This is a touchy subject with many truck drivers. Here is what I've concluded over the years. Truck driving doesn't select very strongly against low-IQ. You can be functionally illiterate or an English literature scholar and move the freight well enough. Because of this, and other things, we have many more middle and low IQ members of the group than say astronomers or engineers.

You don't have to be an anti-social, mouth-breather to be a truck driver but being one doesn't disqualify one from driving a truck. You can see some of the consequences of lower IQ and disdain for learning in the trucking industry in many ways. One way I see over and over almost everywhere truck drivers are gathered is the contempt many drivers have for reading, expecially the regulations or the company policies. Some of this is due to the significant number of functionally illiterate drivers, can read words but can't read and understand unfamiliar ideas. Because of this there is an unwarranted trust in the suggestions of random other drivers or reliance on habits, typically from the first trucking company's training. The fact that may be 30 years out of date or a recipe for mistakes is never examined.

Here's a thought experiment: do you think every student in a school, the ones that will become engineers, doctors, and truck drivers, all have the same desire to learn, willingness to dive into the ideas and concepts behind their skill, and an equal willingness to learn from others or only a willingness to learn by mistake?

It's my contention that because some number of truck drivers are in the industry almost as a refuge from lots of reading and dealing with complex ideas there is an instant dismissal that there is anything to be learned except from direct observation, therefore "you drive your truck and I'll drive mine" is the rule of the industry.

You don't have to have a low IQ or be filthy, ill-mannered, and anti-social to drive a truck but if you don't want people to associate you with those negative traits it's better to no reflect those traits. Too many times drivers use the Jesse Jackson method of fighting stereotypes, don't act differently from the stereotype to prove the stereotype is wrong, just get angry and threaten people or companies that suggest the stereotype applies to them no matter how reasonable a conclusion that may be. "Just because I smell bad and curse like a sailor on meth is no reason to suspect I'm not a scholar, jerkwad!" This is why I don't hassle companies that use negative stereotypes of truck drivers in their ads. Not a day goes by that I don't see real drivers acting in ways similar to the way some ads portray drivers. I don't take offense at these ads because they are highlighting bad truck drivers not all truck drivers. Besides, I don't consider myself a truck driver but a person that is driving a truck.