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Message:: [QUOTE="gearjamin, post: 2624433, member: 51577"]That is the problem. The government has truck drivers classified as unskilled labor. This I believe, is to keep labor costs as low as possible, thus helping to keep shipping costs lower. So the government and trucking companies theories go. If truck driving were classified as "skilled" and had the required testing and training in place to prove what a driver's current skill level is, and regular testing there after (like pilots and train engineers) our profession would be proven to be the highly skilled work that it is. And driver's pay and treatment would raise above the sorry level currently seen.   As far as flightwatch's discription of truck drivers goes - not all truck drivers are argumentative bumpkins who run multiple logs and illegal. And I believe there have been news stories recently about airline pilots arriving drunk to thier assigned flights and another about pilots overflying thier destination airport because they were texting while piloting the plane! Sorry.[/QUOTE]