How Truck Driving Became One Of The Worst Jobs In The US

1. Saying that the 1980 deregulation is the cause of this is on the same level of small brain thinking as "All major league ball players are required by law to make the exact same pay".

   When in reality it's too much government intervention, regulations, rule changes and some form of big brother always up your #$%^&.

2. Autonomus wehicles will solve all problems

3. For the Rainer Beer on board.

4. More freight trains

5. OoOH OOH I know how! CDL schools started rubber stamping foreigners, who then flooded the work force, driving wages down. Indians will pack 5 or 6 deep in a truck, cut a hole in the floorboard to piss and poop into, and drive cross-country without stopping. Then they'll show up to unload and walk onto the loading dock in nothing but flipflops and boxer shorts.

6. I was a truck driver back when. It is definitely not the same now, in many ways.

7. Yeahhh, the country isn't going to grind to a halt if the truck drivers dont get their way. Replace them!

8. Your pretend accent is too forced.

9. 90% of truck drivers leave each year? doesn't even make sense. You are telling me this highly respected and honorable profession is literally all new guys every year? Seems like anybody could do it

10. I remember the good times. My wonderful Dad owned a small trucking company he took over when his Dad passed away, due in part to the stress brought on by the teamsters unions tactics to “organize”, his company of friends who were treated like family. But inevitably growth happened and when I turned 16 he hired me to learn the ropes. Then at 18 I went into The Army to serve. Then after Honorable Discharge I came home in 1976 to drive for him to learn more about the business as his oldest son, with his brothers son my cousin. Things were fantastic for a few years. I was making union wages, bought a new truck and tenement house. Then OPEC I, II&II HIT, but if that wasn’t bad enough the first Pres. and last democRat I voted for, the peanut farmer went and castrated the industry’s best provisions, with deregulation!!! Overnight I went from $14.00/hr in 1981, to unemployment of $230 every two weeks!!! Or less than 1/4 I was earning!!! I lost my truck, just barely got by, but when that ran out I was forced to take a job for some greedy sob’s driving truck for min wage, taking home less than unemployment! Lost my home and credit rating! I saw the whole thing come crashing down! All in an effort to lower prices for consumers? That totally backfired to human greed! It took 12 years and meeting a great girl to get a bit ahead after all that.

11. The title is "How Truck Driving Became One Of The Worst Jobs In The US". Not a single word of explanation or analysis is in it. Dumb video, a waste of time.

12. LMAO 🤣 this is what happens when your entire supply chain relies on trucks

13. Truck drivers need to be replaced by AI.

14. My dad too the industry is not like that anymore but I guess that's the way it is but no trucks no everything no where

15. If truckers actually followed rules maybe there wouldnt be alot of regulation..

16. Whining is really popular these days.

17. How do people say their broke or it’s the worst job? I make a fuckton of money so does everyone else I know

18. Trucker should be paid hourly after 40 hours this should made by the government they should make it illegal to not pay overtime . Ever trucker should be paid 30 per hour after 40 hours

19. Yep… very sad..I was long haul for several years.. 70's, were best for me…Good luck all, Keep on Truckin… you keep the Country goin

20. about a time to replace them with a.i self driving efficient trucks – they had plenty of time to invest into themselfs and no customer and tax payer is responsible for their issues.

21. I tried it for about two weeks. Worst job I ever had. I actually did the math. I was basically working 12-18 hr days (or longer) five days a week for what basically amounts to $3/hr. Long hours punctuated by a few hours of hard labor. Plus, your company basically forces you to break dot rules to stay on the roads and keep working, even if you're over your hours.

22. Low wages, terrible living conditions, an endless supply of undertrained drivers causing accidents, expensive repairs, missing your kids growing up, onerous government regulations, driving timers on your dash, unhealthy…+ 1000 more reasons it sucks.

23. And someone is forcing them to work? Especially work for big corporations. Dont do it, how long do you think such corporation will survive if lets say 70-80% of drivers wont agree to work for them? Or go find work you think you deserve, cant? Well, whos problem is it? No to mention the simple fact that driving a car should not be a high pay job considering that anyone can do it and its easily replaceable by tech in the near future. Even if the "car" is a huge truck that is harder to use compared to BMW 5 its still just driving, its not rocket science.

24. STILL NO RESULTS

25. DOT, too much government intervention and the EPA destroyed the industry

26. You leftist made it so bad

27. Our body our choice until it's k*ng fl* related

28. Shipping must be free!

29. Easy job is always paid little. You want nice job driving stateside watching nice landscape in great machine ? Just get little truck wage. I came back to Eastern Europe because I get more money here in a business than trucker in Canada. Being trucker was nice, but little money only.

30. Right now it’s better to work in a warehouse with over time than being a truck driver as a truck driver you’re gone for 3 weeks and one week of with no pay sow you make 3 weeks pay in a month just not worth it

31. Okay first of all, most drivers are company drivers meaning they do not own their big rig. Yes, the share of independent contractors is increasing, and it's a serious issue in the industry, but don't misrepresent the facts y'all.

32. It's actually a decent paying job. You can make 60k a year after only one month of CDL training.

33. Zero Respect. That's Why.

34. Where's the rest of it? Specifically, where is the damn part that tells "How Truck Driving Became One of the Worst Jobs In the US"?

35. toxic people create toxic industies

    also, otr may be terrible but there are other gigs…

36. When there is no union and you become an independent contractor, the trucking companies have all the power to exploit. If you cannot strike and cause the owners pain, you will continue to get exploited and things can only get worst.

37. Why the hell are vaccines mandates a problem? I'm Old enough to remember when vaccines for many diseases were not available! You do not want to go back to that believe me you don't!!!

38. Are these company drivers or ownerops.

39. Diesel not gas Jesus please learn about big rigs

40. I have had different types of trucking jobs most of my adult life. I did OTR for a while and it SUCKED. I now am blessed to have a local driving job, paid by the hour, and decent wages. I still enjoy it except for the many irresponsible drivers that we have to share the roads with. (Just this week I was in an accident caused by a car pulling out into me)

41. I’ve heard a lot about bad things about this career already and I’m about to start my school. I am 19 years old and I hope this is for me as I love driving.

42. Just a question, is anybody forcing these people to be truckers????

43. Imagine if the truckers had put this kind of energy into unionizing and fighting for better treatment and pay, rather than anti-mask/vax bullshit and fighting restrictions that had already been lifted. Yet another example of how the powerful create these fake narratives to distract people from the actual issues and keep people obsessed with nonsense

    Right wing America is brainwashed. It’s also really telling how this “support” of truckers only went as far as the truckers were willing to risk their careers for the MAGA agenda. It never translated into people pushing for legislation to benefit truckers or fighting for unions, truckers were always just disposable pawns to them

44. Lemme guess, it's all Joe Biden's fault right?

45. Well since truckers can't ever unite on anything, nothing is ever gonna change.

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