50+ Drivers

my whole career i have seen gray haired and middle aged rookies
many retired military men
just yesterday at the fuel island ia gray haired gentleman was telling his trainer at our competitor he has never sent a text message
maybe the kids are gone and you wont be so home sick and accident prone

 

(related to above about technology) I was at a Walmart and a elderly gentleman couldnt get a job there because he had never used or understood how to use a computer mouse.

Otherwise I tend to think, we of the older generation will make better workers than the kids these days. It is in our schooling. We just seem to have a better grasp of what is appropriate and inappropriate behavior.

 

I didnt mean to make the above a slam against the youthful generation. It just seems that the generation after us didnt have the quality that our generation had with the do's and dont's of what to do in life.

 

I'm 64 still do flatbed everyday...have a couple buddies in the mid seventies still doing flatbed..so it can be done..

 

Glad to hear the "Old" guys still have it, I was 64 when I started Driving, am 73 now and still going strong, keep it up everyone

 

im 52 and switched to flatbed recently partially because its more labor intensive .

 

Only nice thing about flat bed is that usually you wont have to lump the load. However, when I was with Western Express I met a driver whom was driving a skateboard of house shingles. The load shifted in the desert and he had to go and manually restack the whole load in 120+ F mid day heat.

Something I dont see happening with a van.

 

I saw a Western Express driver reloading 2x4's in the hammer lane of I-85 about an hour outside of Atlanta......no joke.

 

THATS a lesson on load securement I wouldnt want to experience.