Salute to Our Truckers!

[1978 NYB]

In light of the world pandemic.....

We need to salute our Truckers!

Nothing is happening or you are getting anything without our great Truckers bringing you the stuff you need or want unless it comes on their truck!

Medicine, masks, food, beer, race fuel.

All that stuff comes on a truck!

Salute to our Truckers!

Coronavirus ain't going to stop these guys!

 

[Newport 66]

Julie and i were discussing the trucking industry this morning. Are these guys at higher risk going from state to state, working with less rest and exposing themselves to any number of flu's at truck stops etc? What would happen if the supply chains break because of the trucks getting shut down? can't imagine.....

 

[polara71]

In light of the world pandemic.....

We need to salute our Truckers!

Nothing is happening or you are getting anything without our great Truckers bringing you the stuff you need or want unless it comes on their truck!

Medicine, masks, food, beer, race fuel.

All that stuff comes on a truck!

Salute to our Truckers!

Coronavirus ain't going to stop these guys!

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Saluting guys for doing their job ... kinda like a participation trophy.

 

[polara71]

Julie and i were discussing the trucking industry this morning. Are these guys at higher risk going from state to state, working with less rest and exposing themselves to any number of flu's at truck stops etc? What would happen if the supply chains break because of the trucks getting shut down? can't imagine.....

They have much less interaction with people than most of us. Since they are secluded most of the day they are likely to be less at risk.

 

[Rapidtrans777]

Thank you, although we don't haul toilet paper.
@polara71, not all truck drivers spend their days alone, behind a steering wheel. Between the lumber yards, from small mom & pops to big box home improvement stores, and jobsites we interact with dozens of people every.

don't why 2 pics attached. Can't edit out the extra.

 

[crazyboutwagons]

I can say as a recently retired local delivery driver I am glad I don't have to go to work any more. My daily job was unloading a 53' refrigerated trailer along side 6 other drivers in a refrigerated warehouse for 2-3 hrs every morning then loading onto local delivery trucks then delivering to 15-18 stops. I came into contact with people all day. now with what's going on my wife and I can stay put and not have to go out in public. Retirement ain't it great everyday is Saturday now.

 

[mrfury68]

If you got it, a truck brought it.

 

[thrashingcows]

Glad I'm delivering fuel at night....lot less people to have to interact with or be around. ;)

 

[300rag]

Glad I'm delivering fuel at night....lot less people to have to interact with or be around. ;)

I didn't think there were that many people up there anyways.

 

[crv]

Coronavirus ain't going to stop these guys!

But big brother government pencil pushers probably could...

 

[commando1]

My daily job was unloading a 53' refrigerated trailer along side 6 other drivers in a refrigerated warehouse for 2-3 hrs every morning then loading onto local delivery trucks then delivering to 15-18 stops

You worked for @MarPar?

 

[73Coupe]

Perfect timing. I just watched a story on 60 minutes this evening about a company in Tucson that's developing driverless big rigs. It's all been kept under the radar, and they've been testing them on roads in the southwest now for some time. I was thinking the whole time, stand up for the truckers, and don't kill jobs!

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/driver...dustry-as-soon-as-2021-60-minutes-2020-03-15/

 

[LocuMob]

Perfect timing. I just watched a story on 60 minutes this evening about a company in Tucson that's developing driverless big rigs. It's all been kept under the radar, and they've been testing them on roads in the southwest now for some time. I was thinking the whole time, stand up for the truckers, and don't kill jobs!

Automated trucking, a technical milestone that could disrupt hundreds of thousands of jobs, hits the road

There was a different write up on them in another thread earlier. A new way to lead the industry.

 

[70bigblockdodge]

I'm with Bryan, not much interaction with people, just the other DH like me hauling steel. Truck stops are disgusting places normally, now.......hands in pockets, gloves on screens.
I had heard that the "hours of service" have been lifted for food and toiletries. I do not know first hand.
So any of you can be run over by a truck with a tired driver as long as they are hauling certain things. Safety my ***.
8 years and this stupidity will be behind me.
If I hauled that crap I'd tell all of you to suck eggs and sit on a load of TP
Most people could care less till their *** is dirty then it's a big problem.

 

[halifaxhops]

Seriously thanks Guys and Gals!

 

[commando1]

I don't get it.
Trucking used be a profession with Professionals.
Well paid and helped build the Middle America.

Technology doubled the productivity of trucking reducing labor costs.

Corporate greed reduced trucking to a minimum wage entry level job further reducing labor costs.

The percentage of labor costs to overhead is 1/4 to what it used to be.

Now they want to lower it to zero.

One coder working for peasant wages in India is writing the software.

 

[MarPar]

You worked for @MarPar?

Sounds about right. Xcept we only do 10 stops per day

 

[1978 NYB]

I had to earn a Class A CDL to hold my job at the Army Testing Center even though I would violating the Union CBA if I got behind the wheel since I was management. Having a Class A license for the job didn't make sense to me but I didn't write up the job description and requirements. I can say that getting a Class A CDL is no joke. I had to surrender my CDL 3 years ago when I got sick and could no longer pass the med exam. Also had to have a Top Secret Government Security Clearance, a 4 year college degree, and 10 years military experience in a specific Combat Arms MOS.

 

[BIGBARNEYCARS]

Thru' the winter of '56-'57 I waz hauling heavy war equipment between 29 Palms and Camp Pendleton and I was still 17 YO at the time, and continued to do it for almost 2 more yearz. How does that fit in with class A requirements? lol I had my Honorable Discharge and High School Diploma 2 months after I turned 19. The 1st job interview I went on, the interviewer called me a F**in' lire after I'd showed him proof of what I was saying. I laughed at him and said thanks for your stupidity, I don't work for A** H***s, you don't pay enough and walked out and he was still spitting an sputtering when I gave him the one finger wave. Jer

 

[70bigblockdodge]

Thanks for the recognition Bob, but like Dave said no prizes for doing your job.
Getting a Class A CDL is a joke. Keeping your nose clean and staying off, the law, the govt and John Q public's radar is the hard part. Following the regulations and rules is damn near impossible, and probably less safe than your own self preservation actions.
It's the same sentiment I hear everywhere, "this job used to be fun", t"took all the fun out of it", "I love this job"
It seems nobody has a good outlook on it anymore.