The trucks themselves used to weed out the chaff. If you couldn’t drive it you didn’t even get to be a truck driver. Pretty simple. Getting rid of most of the idiots would be as easy as putting all the pedals and shift bars back in the trucks.
Serious question that needs an answer. Why do so many truck drivers just bend over and take it?
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It is funny, those that try to convince themselves drivers back in the day all being on drugs. I don’t personally know one driver that was.
Many were running for manufacturing companies that had their own trucks, or for big Union carriers. The driving limit then was only 10 hours.
With all the rumors of guys running double log books…and yes it happened, but not as much with these jobs that I mentioned. If a Corporation with their name all over the side of the truck and trailer got in an accident, especially out of log, it could be a death sentence.
Probably one reason why many were more than happy to dump their fleets when deregulation came along in 1981 and let the common carriers haul their goods. It was sad to see all those great company logos disappear so rapidly. Most trucks were a rolling billboard.
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There always were those running overweight. Had an ex-steel hauler tell how they would pick up one 40K coil, return to the yard and drop it, go back for another and return to pick up the first and run both....
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