Attorneys Answer Q: Guns in Truck

I know a driver that drove for almost 30 years. I think he said he only carried a gun for a couple of years and remembers only maybe 2 or 3 times having a gun could have helped if things got worse than it played out in real life.

NEWBIES and the public GREATLY exaggerate the danger involved in OTR trucking. The most dangerous part of OTR trucking is eating. More driver die of strokes and heart attack than crime, by a country mile. If you don't buy or sell drugs or stolen property or hang around with people that do those things, you won't have any trouble besides being treated like a rabid skunk by customers.

 

My comment was answering the OP's "I wish there was a law allowing truck drivers to have guns." FOPA is such a law. Your explanations about FOPA are correct. There is no federal law prohibiting truck drivers from having a gun, despite 5 decades of truck stop lawyers claiming they have read it with their own eyes. The closest thing to a law for truck drivers and guns is FOPA. Having a gun doesn't solve all problems. It only changes what problems you have, like every other "solution".

 

Go ahead. Explain and support your position.
Don't confuse the dramatic and memorable crime stories on local TV every 4 years with the frequency of crime daily. Also, don't confuse NOT hearing the stories about drivers having heart attacks every day of the year with it not happening. Heart disease and wrecks kill around 5-10 times more drivers than those drivers killed by crime.

 

I'm not disputing anything you say. The OP wished for a federal law, and FOPA is a federal law. Having a gun in the truck is a hundred times more complicated than just chanting "better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6". EVERYTHING is more complicated in real life than some mantra about the thing. There are no solutions on earth, just exchanging of problems for other problems.