Professional Drivers are they history ?

Too true. Also thanks for your PM (I can't pm you back yet ... I'll keep it in mind)!

 

OK, I'll take a shot at this.

I think that a professional driver and a career driver are the same. I think it is just different words to describe someone who is making a career of trucking, (or other type of driving.) I think the terms are interchangeable.

I also think you can have long time drivers that are NOT career or professional drivers. The steering wheel holders who take no pride in their work, do their best to cheat the logs, do pretty much as they please, to hell with the law, the load, safety, or the company. They last until the screw up bad enough to get fired. Many of them last for many years before this happens.

Being a "career driver" does not necessarily mean that driving is the only job, or career, that a person has had. I know many people who have had two, three, four or more careers in their working life time.

To me, it means that you care about what you are doing, you take pride in doing a good safe job, you keep yourself and your truck clean. You make you P & D's on time, you know when to shut down, and when you can push it. You keep your paper work in order, and turned in, in a timely manner. Oh heck, I could go on and on here at lenght, but I'll post this and let somebody else take it from here.

 

To me it's more simply stated as

(1) You have a Trucker

(2) You have a driver......

 

There ya go Big D ! get off in there !
Some valid points,some ........ well ........ LOL!!

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Ever hear of Muppets and Puppets ? LOL!!

Ya'll snatch a gear and keep the thread rolling . . . . . .

 

Linguistics being a finer tool of mine, I'll make an effort in short:
Professional: All the things Don said; caring, effort, management and so forth, but also a service mentality. Drivers should be providing a service to their customers and the company they drive for foremost. This would include attitude and appearance as well as timeliness.
Career: Usually a professional who intends to stay in the business for life. OTOH, a career driver may not be all that professional in his performance, as lassitude, complacency, or disagreements with his company may color his attitude, but he remains in the seat regardless.

 

Hey, I never hung out a shingle sayin' I was purfekt!

 

It was just the "cheat on logs statement"
Even the best of us occasionally reach under the
bunk for Volume # 2

 

im a student driver and i cant agree more there are drivers that are way more experienced out there my brother called several that would hire me and they told him that they only hired students now, there needs to be a fair ratio of both comeing in to these companys it makes one wounder why r they only hireing students and not takeing half of one and then half the other

 

Probably because experienced drivers consider their pay and working conditions unacceptable .

 

Absolutely ! a FACT !