Potential new trucker, few questions

I wish you luck but see what is mentioned but not really realized at driver level is that the insurance company dictates who gets hired.

A lot of these companies who hire crap drivers (believe me 15 over isn't bad) are what is called self-insured and dealing with one accident with a self-insured company, I think this should be really outlawed because of the games they play. Because their underwriters are more lax, they can actually hire these crap drivers and shuffle them through that revolving door if they don't work out.

 

I've mellowed quite a bit since then!

 

As have I, bro... as have I. I try to play nice and guide the youngsters around here....sometimes to a disadvantage, LoL. I miss burning the '69 Nova at the old gravel pits back in the day!! 360's in summer, sleet, snow, and just because...hehehehe.. (good thing there were NO cameras back then, LoL~!)

 

They'll never be able to automate beverage delivery, foodservice, or LTL P&D work (among others).

 

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They will change the system. Think outside the box.
In 1994 I delivered to new print plant in Franklin Park Il. where robots handled all the newsprint coming off trailer and placed it on racks. These are 800 lbs rolls. Robots read the bar codes for placement. Robots also fetched rolls for print. No more waking up forklift driver and this was 26 years ago. I have a friend who is a computer engineer whose job is creating programming to eliminate warm bodies on the line

 

Some labor bots working within a static environment is very different than the complexities of inner city driving. I think even the most hopeful of number crunching billionaires don't expect to have empty cabs anytime this century, at least in major cities and at shippers and receivers. So who here is eager to fill the new job role consisting of a minimum wage earning, moving closet that stops to hand you the controls for only the "fun" bits?

 

I know there are automated ways to load a truck (with robot forklifts moving product on standard-size pallets), build skids (stacking boxes of the same size), and (eventually) get it down the road to other warehouses.

My point is until a robot can run a 2-wheeler and hustle some kegs into a bar or run food into a restaurant, or block traffic to blindside off a busy street into a lot not meant for trucks, then operate a pallet jack to get the freight delivered, those jobs I mentioned will be safe.

 

The system has to change to accommodate automation. The new self loading garbage trucks are just the tip of the iceberg. I'll get back to you in 30 years

 

• A clean driving record meeting all company qualifications.
• No more than one preventable accident within the last 36 months.
• No DUI within the last 36 months.
• Not more than two moving violations in the last 36 months.
• No more than one major preventable accident while driving a commercial
  
• vehicle.
• MY BOYS AT YRC WILL HIRE YOU LOL