don't become a truck driver

It's all connected. There's no food without raw materials, cans, packaging, heck, no trucks. Flats, drys, reefers are all needed no matter what.

 

As far back as I can remember 50 now there has always been trucks moving freight. I really DOUBT that is going to STOP anytime soon. Look around you. Everything you buy from food, clothing, medicine, cars, tires, well you get the point, it all moves to the store by SEMI's. True or False ? Just trying to make a point. Like my instructor told us in class, a CDL in your pocket means you will always have a JOB of some kind if you don't lose it. I look forward to going to work soon. Look at it this way, someone will always have to deliver to Wal-Mart and Sam's Clubs. I here there drivers are very well paid and taken care of.

 

Wal-Mart drivers are treated well put I would never consider working for them...They have done more to hurt the working person of this country than any other company. You may not see a picket line out but it's a line I won't cross.

 

If they open up the southern boarder no of us will have to worry about driving for a living,.......

 

Mexicans love there family to much...They would never leave for weeks on end

 

I wouldn't count on that,...

 

This has been bugging me since I first read this post(above). All I have to say is this: Can you be anymore negative? Rails can only go so far. It's us, as DRIVERS, that get the cargo the rest of the way. I'd like to train pull into a gas station and deliver fuel or the grocery order, or dock at a warehouse or grocery store. They can't do it. It's like some of the other drivers that have posted in this thread, there will always be a need for trucks and the men and women that drive them.

 

I have pulled from railyards and know their limitations . Don't forget the potential of freight moved by inland waterways and along the coasts . That is far more efficient than rail and offers real employment opportunities . There is a demand for workers on ships and barge crews and good chance of advancement to high paying pilot and captain's positions . Many oil companies , power plants , and sand and gravel companies have their own tugs . Many work 30 days on , 30 days off .
But there is a need for less and less trucks and more and more women and men getting their CDL's . There will always be low paying jobs available simply because people keep quitting .