CDL Theory question

It seems with every bright Idea and hoop for us the drivers that follow just get worse and worse!

 

It might be the biggest driver retention problem in the USA. It’s just not worth it, anymore.

 

If they called it an Elephant Mating Test it is still a requirement, even though there are no elephants in the room and mating is not involved and you don't understand why they picked the name. Requirements are REQUIREMENTS, not AGREEMENTS. You need whatever the requirements require.

 

As long-term drivers leave they are replaced by someone. If those someones comes from a place where motor vehicles are rare or thinking is not encouraged, etc the new drivers will not have the "common sense" that was common before the industry needed to cater to the lowest common denominator. Not every culture is the same and not every culture produces the same output. If it were true each nation and continent of nations would seem like different neighborhoods in the same country, instead of the bar scene in Star Wars. For some people living in a truck and crapping in the parking lot is like winning the lottery and not 1-2 steps above living like a stray dog.

 

Down in a blaze of glory!! Lol. I feel the same way. Add up all the bs, a person is better off getting an associates degree in just about anything. Opens doors. Even an Apprenticeship in anything. Anything except Trucking. Just not worth the bs anymore. So many better options.

 

Trade school would be a better choice than obtaining some worthless degree in one of those modern leftist academic institutions...

 

"Going to college and getting a good job" was the "just go to trade school" answer for a different generation. Colleges, trade schools, any business are in the business of seeling potential customers on the "security" of using our business.

The only thing I see that will prevent the idea of learning a trade becoming as worthless as "go to college and get a good job" in some number of years is the almost utter unwillingness of people under 30 to do anything but eat junkfood, play video games, and watch videos. With children "being raised" in broken homes, and mothers being the major influence for kids not already living inside a type of prison culture on the outside of the prison walls, don't expect much for the future. I'd start learning Chinese. There is NOBODY in/out of the country that will turn this around. Have a nice day.

 

Pretty much, unless it's a STEM degree. Even business degrees are joke with the idiotic short-sighted "what have you done for me lately" mentality they teach. That and the refusal to realize that squeezing every nickel for pennies is fine when it comes to waste but stupid when you're doing it to core expenses. Everyone but management sees the loss of efficiency and productivity that needless squeezing generates. But hey, the greedy ### short-sighted stockholders (holds mirror up to the common investor, aka general public.) are happy.

 

IMO Associate degrees only open a few doors, for jobs that require an Associate degree. They just cost less than a BS/BA so there is less risk in one. NOBODY needs an AA/AS is Call Center Management or Restaurant Management, Child Development, Pet Grooming Technology or Content Creation or the other 95 "fields of studies". Colleges are uniquely unqualified to supply well-educated employees to companies. That's why the companies have to send people from industry to create programs on those topics at colleges. Experience working at job and apprenticeships for other jobs have the most value and the least costs, until some Hollywood actress discovers it and it filters into reality TV on Cable TV or daytime TV talk shows. Then that approach is "Californicated" and the quality crashes while the prices spiral. Now every job in a hospital, clinic, dentists office claims to require at least an Associates degree just to file forms and take appointments.

 

I agree. I know many people that went in that direction. Several are welders. One is a pipefitter. One guy is an industrial electrician making close to $100,000 a year. Heck, even some of my female friends took Cosmetology classes and at least pre covid was doing great. One guy I went to HS with took some cooking classes and now owns his own restaurant. I also agree with @Hammer166 if you choose to go get a degree make it a STEM degree.