What you’re talking about has happened gradually. It’s like the story about boiling a frog: You can only do it if it’s slowly.
There are good jobs in trucking you just have to find them. I work nights hauling oil and have zero human interaction and it suits me just fine. Most managers/dispatchers/drivers I’ve spoken with drive me nuts. The handful of good drivers I’ve met I keep in touch with on a pretty regular basis.
Serious question that needs an answer. Why do so many truck drivers just bend over and take it?
Discussion in 'Experienced Truckers' Advice' started by Trucks66, Jul 13, 2022.
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I also believe that the nonsense of “we’re family” is overhyped among the trucking industry. Sure, you might make lifelong or good friends with a fellow driver or two but what does the company being the same you work under have anything to really do with it? And most companies have several family members that work there and that’s who they stay close with. You were always an outsider and always within an inch of being possibly terminated if you mess up. You’re not the “son of the owner” sorry to burst anyones bubble. I find the whole “we’re family“ and attempt to manipulate and play on the heartstrings of truck drivers who often live very lonely lives. To keep them loyal.
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And if you broke down in the cit,y or the in middle of nowhere, every passing truck would be on the radio asking if you needed help. Then there would be at least two or three trucks stopping to see if they could help.
With enough tools and know how to be able to fix about anything. Or go make calls to get you help.
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Everything is a phone call, Qualcom or Zonar message away.
50 years ago the original Star Trek had the concepts.
Small hand held communicators, tricorders (small hand held computer/scanners).
Welcome to the future.
Next up is transporter technology so we can have food replicators on the trucks.
Give it another 50 years and see what we have.
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Well I bend over and take it because I really enjoy eating it Subway and Chester's fried Chicken. So every time I go into love's I got the best of both worlds. But that's just me
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