Do I need a brain to drive truck

"This too is why the teamsters and the ATA are the ones pushing for more regulations."

Six I agree with you on the teamsters but the ATA can really do well with less regulations, their members can abuse drivers even more if there were less, not more.

 

Megas can only exist but for so long. I bet anti-trust laws will kick in at some point (not soon though)

Also, @TripleSix is right. It's all about perception re: how big mega's are.

Reason for braindead drivers is the low bar of entry into the game....and that generates poor drivers, that now DOT has to come in and fix stoopid. In the process of fixing stoopid, the rest suffer.

 

I'm betting there really is a conspiracy with megas, lawmakers and DEF/autonomous truck manufacturers trying to take over the trucking industry from smaller and independent operators.

And I'm not a "conspiracy guy".

 

Look at today's generation. Seems you don't need a brain for anything anymore.

 

Means absolutely nothing. I don't care what degrees someone may
have. Many of the smartest and best in America today do not have even a
High school diploma. Some of the absolutely stupidest people out here are
college educated.

I have been working for 30 years. I have met a lot of good people during
that time. I will absolutely stand on my above statement. Education means
very little.

Now I agree 100% correct on the common sense statement. Some have
it, some don't. I have seen very few that didn't have common sense one day,
show up the next and have it. Training helps sometimes but for the most
part if somebody doesn't have it or doesn't care about their job; more
training is a waste of time.

 

I have also wondered how often the driver is in the wrong business.
I have seen young drivers who have always wanted to drive a truck, maybe
his dad was a driver. Some of these guys live and breath trucking and they
are good at it. Only thing he ever cared about..... I have seen other guys
who ended up in a truck because they needed a job. Never cared about
the industry, couldn't care less about the truck; it is just a job to him. Those
guys usually don't seem to have much commonsense.........I suspect if that
person found a job he cared about he would be a better person.

 

^^^ All a college degree means is that you have been brainwashed by the education system. I have met very few degree holders with more than half an ounce of intelligence and common sense combined.

 

The anti-trust laws will not be involved. This isn't about that but as you said in your last paragraph, it is the easy entry into the industry because the CDL is a crackerjack license, and getting an authority is too easy.

ALL of that is the real problem within this industry, not the megas.

 

throw in the towel?
I guess I was lucky to meet "The Old Guy." A.J Trucker Newell. Last of a dying breed.
Drove truck from after WWII till he died several years ago. He was the stuff America was made of.
"I know nothing; and I can prove it!"
"I was born with nothing and still have most of it."
"Go the extra mile - it's not crowded."
Educated, high school diploma. but common sense - all day long. This was the guy you could ask anything, and he would know something about it. Tough as nails, but a nice guy. Got me involved in trucking in 1983.
I see civilization going into "Fiddle as Rome burns" mode. Maybe Trump can pull us out of this nosedive.
Wrote this cause of the comment on lower quality drivers, and younger generation know-nothings.
There's always an exception to the rule. Be that exception. Excel. No towel throwing allowed

 

@Chinatown isn't going nowhere,he would miss picking on me,lol