How does the general public perceive truckers?

do people realize that trains don't go to every town still got to have a truck

 

#4 and 5 are not true. That's bein nice about it.

 

It's always the trk drivers fault for accidents even though say the 4wheeler was to blame.That 4 wheeler will cost the industry another few hundred points towards another law only for the truckers.Truck driving is the most hated carreer there is.Sure some of the trk drivers are to blame for how america perceives us.I see the way some drive.But there are far more worst 4wheelers then trk drivers.We have 2 sets of laws to follow,the ones only for the trucking industry and the one for all motorist.Laws are very unfair and the lawmakers will dig so far deep untill they enforce another law only to the trucking industry.

 

i know, im gonna be hated for this, but most of what he says is true to a point. an accident involving a truck does have a greater capacity for injury or death, regardless of fault. and there are truck drivers out there that "own the road". there are far more that are just have little capacity to be a good driver. let's face facts...when you offer substandard wages and rely on a constant influx of "new" drivers, you are pretty much rolling the dice every day on how many of your drivers will be responsible for hurting or killing people. all the parents out there...after your kid gets his license, how comfortable will you be in his ability and DESIRE to be a good,safe driver? will you hand him the keys to your car, and let him drive 100k miles this year with no supervision, and expect him not to speed, and not have any accidents? if you do, you are a fool. and yet that is essentially what all these large companies do...take the newbie out for a couple weeks to "train" then throw him in his own truck. some succeed, others fail miserably. not to mention the highly suspect quailty of some of the trainers out there.

if you want to foster the "us vs them" mentality, keep dismissing all the arguments. "im not like that, and i know plenty of good, safe drivers". so what? the majority of truck drivers with a year or more of experience are relatively safe drivers...certainly a far greater percentage than safe car drivers. but again, so what? we work in an industry that over regulates to the point of forcing drivers out in favor of new ones. the large companies LOVE this. to them it means lower wages, and government picking up the tab on a portion of labor costs in many instances. blame the right people. the fmcsa regulations make the roads less and less safe, by making more rules and not making any regarding compensation. they can quote statistics all day, but will never convince me otherwise. im not saying the answer is necessarily less regulations, or regulated pay, or anything. i AM saying that to dismiss those that see truck drivers as "not safe" is to ignore a HUGE segment of our industry, and there simply are no easy answers to solving the problems. despite the band-aids the dot/fmcsa puts on them, the problems will always exist.

 

I'll always scoot over a little in the lane to kick up a little more spray when I get in front of a four wheeler with wipers on high and a terrified death grip on the wheel....You think the rain/snow is bad? How you likin it now?!?!?!

 

Does that make me a terrorist?

 

yup...and if youre serious, it also makes you one of the problems with the industry. read the part of the op that says something about truckers feeling no need to share "their" highway.

all of the earlier posts...you see? the reckless idiots ARE out there...you cant deny it.

 

Please change your Location.Comments like that are an embarassment to Texas.

Thanks