Trucking in top ten most dangerous jobs

Doesn't suprise me at all with all the dangerous 4 wheelers out there.

 

The fatality rate per 100,000 drops considerably after the top 3 . Fishing , #1 is 127.3 per 100,000 , #3 ,Aircraft pilots and flight engineers is less than half that at 56.1 per 100,000 and #9 Truck drivers about 20% of of number 1 at 25.9 per 100,000 .

 

Yep. . Be safe out there guys and gals!

 

It is ironic that truck driving is #9 out of the 10 most dangerous jobs, yet the pay scales don't seem to match the dangers involved. I think that part of it is the supply and demand factor, more and more people are entering into the truck driving occupations, both OTR and local. As a result, the pay scales are dropping.

 

The pay scale is what it is because we are stupid enough to do it(a lot of us trapped ourselves in it stupidly).... and to your point more and more people believe trucking is the only way they can make it and stupidly enter the industry blind.. and become paid slaves to the industry.. which burns them up and puffs the smoke out the stack.. It won't ever get any better in this economy... We are going to keep sliding down in pay until the economy rebounds and people able to go back to their 9 to 5's and leave the industry... So the wages can reset themselves much like they did in the 80's and mid 90's...

 

*yawn*

Not news. Trucking has been one of the most dangerous fields of endeavor since then invented the first truck. Trucking is also one of those fields with the highest rates of divorce....alongside police work and combat soldiers....

 

Those numbers represent the industry average. Each one of us do control the level of risk for ourselves.

 

For the sake of both the OTR and local truck drivers, I TRULY and GENUINELY hope that the pay scales do go go up to where they should have been all along.

My one major concern is this:
As in many of the construction trades and meatpacking plants, many of the employers brought in immigrant labor to keep the wages down and benefits practically nil. I see this possibly happening in the trucking industry on a large nationwide basis. I TRULY and GENUINELY hope that I am dead wrong on this!

Many, not all, of the CEO's and higher level managers of all size trucking companies intensely dislike paying truck drivers $40,000, $50,000, or $60,000 plus a year, plus health and retirement benefits, to their drivers.

However, they themselves do NOT have a problem receiving $40,000, $50,000, or $60,000 plus a year, plus health and retirement benefits. In this particular case, "what is good for the goose, is NOT particularly good for the gander"

God bless every American and their families. God bless the U.S.A.!