one of the best things about my job is the farmers

The world could still turn without doctors and lawyers. Sure u would be sick all the time and have legal troubles. The world would shutdown in 2 days if there wasnt anybody to move the goods n services that people rely on. All those jobs u listed the world would only change the way we live. But we could still live on

 

As I said, some truckers think they are more important than others.

 

Its not about acting as if our job is more important that others its a simple fact that this is the most important industry there is around. Please i hope u are not one of them people that doesnt know where all that food in the grocery stores comes from. It would not be there without a truck.

 

We are no more important than many other professions. Everyone has a place in this world to keep things going as we have come accustomed to.
The world kept turning before the industrial revolution, but we are spoiled because of it.
I like the luxury of having things readily available as much as anyone, but I also realize it takes many, many vocational aspects to do it.
I can guarantee if any one of the major suppliers of what we take for granted( or deliver), shut down, it would be immediately felt.

 

There was truck drivers before the industrial revolution and as far back as even the cavemen days. They just didnt drive trucks. The people that went out to kill their food and gather materials to bring back to the village , all that stuff have to be transported back to the village, that is the truck drivers job in modern day world . We can agree to disagree but there is no more important industry than the farmers who make the food and the truck drivers who transport and all the different supplyers who process it into food so u and me and everybody else can enjoy the goods and services that we have in modern day life.

 

It's not about a feeling of importance, it's about being fairly compensated for the extraordinary long hours we're expected to work, for extremely low pay compared to other industries. Granted, there are members of our industry that give us all a bad name, but the same can be said for any industry.

 

What would happen if everyone had to start driving to Lockhart TX to buy their comfy Sierra mattress with 400 different memory settings on it instead of getting it at some mattress place in their hometown? They might have to sleep on a cotton mattress. There would be a lot more whining around the office water cooler and people collapsing from exhaustion. That just can't happen. We can't have people sleeping on cotton mattresses.

 

US imposes new anti-dumping duties on Chinese mattresses ...
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/30/us-imposes-new-anti-dumping-duties-on-chinese...
May 29, 2019 · The U.S. government is imposing duties of up to 79.7% on Chinese-made kegs and up to 1,731% on mattresses.

 

That's good to hear. Chinese mattresses are crap. Sealy is about the only major brand that is sold and manufactured in the US. The rest are all imports. You just know that those lousy mattresses they sell at T/A that are rolled up are all Chinese crap too.

 

A lot of us old school guys came from growing up on farms and then transitioning in to truck drivers.
I spent almost 20 years living the dairy farm life before making the natural transition in to a bull hauler then eventually milk tanker, dry van, lowboy and now 19 years of car hauling.
I will say that drivers who came from the farm life are an industrious bunch.
They have problem solving skills and a can do work ethic to get the job done that is unstoppable.
@ad356 I commend you on your problem solving skills of carrying some coal ash with you knowing on farm pickup there would certainly be days you were going to need it.
I Also commend you for doing what you had to do to get that wash fitting back to the plant with out having to call someone to tell you how to fix the problem.
I do believe though you will be taking some serious ribing from the the boys in the tank room for some time to come lol.