How come obtaining a CDL isn't anywhere as strict as obtaining a commercial pilot license?

This is the kind of question I think to myself when you see excited articles about future flying cars. The authors of these idiot articles are so full of excrement I would hate to pay the laundry bill of their undies. People, we know how folks cannot even drive stuck to terra firma. Put these numb nuts into to the sky. I would pay money to see that safety out of the way.

 

Pilots and train engineers both have stringent health and fitness standards.

But truckers? Hey, it's ok. Lets allow every 300 lb - 450 lb fat ### plumper on the brink of diabetes, with sleep apnea and highly susceptible to stroke, heart attack and brain aneurysm get behind the wheel of a 40 ton missile careening down the highway at 63 mph - 80 mph.

But if they had health and fitness standards for truckers, they'd have to pay the rest of us real wages and they don't want to do that.

 

Apparently it's ok in your book for some lardo to have a stroke while doing 70 mph down the freeway, cross the median and slam into a school bus full of kids and bbq them alive. After all, it's ONLY 26 kids lives, right?

 

It’s likely more about simple supply and demand than anything else. There’s no market demand for a bunch of 3rd worlders flying around in Cessna planes, and there probably isn’t some huge shortage of commercial pilots to fly passengers or UPS/FedEx packages around. They find a lot of ex Navy or Air Force guys to do that. There’s always a demand for drivers, and the training is nowhere near as difficult. You can’t be *too* stupid to be a pilot and need to have a solid grasp of English. There’s a much higher minimum bar to meet or Darwin will sort it out real quick.

 

The thing about statistics is that they easily misleading. Despite all the stupidity in the industry, the number of fatalities involving trucks will still overwhelmingly be the car’s fault BUT “if the truck wasn’t there, my son Timmy (who was drunk and high running 4x the speed limit with no lights on at 3:15am) would still be alive.”

The next time you drive a truck, watch how many cars almost swerve into you as they pass. 50%. Darwinism. Then entire herd is infected.

 

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