Back over the road

Until the FMCSA and states strictly enforce English-speaking CDLs and a few other techniques to strip out the flip-flop gang the industry is going to remain and the race to the bottom will continue. The flip-flop gang can feel like the richest man in Anywhereistan while making minimum-wage in the the USA. Even if freight rates are cut in half, they will still attract a lot of foreign truck wreckers.

I almost always ran a CB in my truck but now maybe 10% of drivers have a CB. They are very useful when you accidentally are near someone else with a CB. But, most foreign and domestic drivers are screwing with their phones so CBs are hardly ever used.

 

The closer to California you get, the worse it is. I did a scientific study to figure that out.

 

I had one when I first started. But drivers became too rude, crude and socially unacceptable so I finally trashed it.

 

I don't know I always have my cb on but on my normal MN ND stuff very seldom hear anyone else on it, maybe when you go by the p-lot on the highway you might here someone. As far as drivers being rude and crude, it isn't nothing when you are on a gaming server with a bunch of kids on it, we used to just sit and laugh at the kids on COD all night long. The one time a radio will help you out is in inclement weather, hearing about what's up ahead of you.

As far as quality of driver, well we are hopefully at the bottom of this, I can't see it getting much worse but I have said that in the past and look where we are at now

 

I've been hearing people claim "it can't get any worse" for the last 50 years. I don't expect there is a floor to the decline. People don't just wake up and reverse everything. Every decline becomes "the new normal" about a year or two after it was the last decline.

 

Things rarely if ever get better

 

"Hey northbound gotta brake check at the 35 mile, gonna want the right lane"

20 seconds later

"Anybody know what's going on up here? Whys traffic stopped?! Whys nobody got their radio on?! Buncha window lickers!"

That's about the extent of cb convos i hear anymore

 

Nailed it.

 

Welcome back to the nightmare that is the current trucking industry. I’ve been out here over 30 years, and if I could walk away tomorrow I would.

Unfortunately only two companies locally pay a living wage, so until I can get on with one of those two companies I’m stuck living in the cesspool that is OTR trucking