Serious question that needs an answer. Why do so many truck drivers just bend over and take it?

Lol just cuz OP's ### hurts don't mean mine is going to

 

It is trucking. You will eat a #### sandwhich and like it. Part of the job.

 

Have you had to bend over and just take it? And if so, why?

 

Most of them wouldn’t get a good one even if they knew where to look for it. Punkin’ wanting a large car and big money in 1980 is no different than Swifty looking for the same thing now. Not happening.

 

Or work on a drilling rig.

 

Truckers just take it now a days? Why is there over 100% turnover? Prime required "stable work history. For CDL drivers that means no more than 3 driving jobs in the last year."

I think drivers are moving on.

 

i'll tell you what, as a former trucker, i had my share of complaining to do...


however.....

when i was younger and working as a mechanic, and got out of that..???

i had actually thought about becoming a plumber....

problem though, i'd have to go to customers houses...

i think it's a better idea, the customer takes his plumbing problems to my shop, all my tools and supplies are there....!!!!!

why should I DRIVE to them.,.???

oh well...the deranged mind of a former mechanic........

 

I worked for three different companies ALL started, like so may others, by returning WWII vets and my uncle owned his own trucks and flatbeds in the late 40's - early 50's and each had a common thread unknown/ under reported to todays trucking community.

Each founder mentioned the daily morning 'discussions'; really fisticuffs that led to who would be the first loaded this morning.

Dad mentioned the year before I was born whe his brother added one of those ; newfangled 'Jimmy' diesels [1953?] to his fleet and the three drivers settled who was driving it today using the same 'gentlemanly' discussions.

I was called out, on here, regarding a story of one of these guys teaching the man who was later my boss how to drive a twin stick B model Mack in one day using a tire billy across his knuckles to apply corrective instruction.

I remember his brother telling Joe Cambria [Mack dealer] he wouldn;t buy a truck with air seats N power steering wanting his drivers to feel every bump the truck does...

The other company wouldn't hire un-married drivers; less no-notice terminations that way...

Go and sit in a restored 40's tractor; a solid steel sardine can with a wing window [1/2 of the 250 a/c] where the handle would snatch and rip off every left sleeve button you had while cranking that armstrong steering as the steel springs bounced your head off the roof...

Those were tough men who tamed a tough industry

Amazon packages......

 

I was approached a few times over the years. But I quit instead.

 

So a willingness to turn down better jobs for 3 years is a requirement to be hired for another horrible one? No wonder this industry is a train wreck.