>Owing to a growing shortage of truck drivers, many trucking companies are increasingly luring senior citizens out of retirement for short and long haul trucking. Although a license and annual physical evaluation are required in the US to drive vehicles over 10,000 pounds, there is no mandatory retirement age for truck drivers (airline pilots have to retire at 65). Many such truckers are in their 70s, with a few in their 80s and 90s.
>Studies showed a nearly 200% increase in accidents involving truck and bus drivers 70 and older from 2014 to 16, and that's only in the 12 states that document a truck driver's age when an accident occurs, meaning that numerous other accidents involving elderly truckers have probably gone unrecorded. With advancing age can come numerous maladies that impair one's ability to safely handle a truck, including decreased eyesight and hearing, decreased reflexes and ability to react quickly in an emergency, stiffness of the joints, diminished muscle strength, heightened risk of stroke or heart attack, and mental confusion resulting from the use of medications. However, barring Federal regulatory action, it is unlikely that any significant action will be done such as more aggressive medical screening of older truckers.
>One particularly infamous case involved 76 year old truck driver Donald Creed, who killed 10 people in a multi-vehicle accident after crashing his semi into them on I-44 in Missouri in August 2009. Creed was apparently suffering fatigue after driving some 16 hours without a rest to complete a delivery on time.
FUCK YOU FOR ENDANGERING EVERYONE ELSE'S LIVES, YOU ROTTING OLD BABY BOOMER SCUM. MANDATORY EUTHANASIA AT 70 NOW.
You realize the whole country is run by shit getting delivered by trucks. Please step in front of one tomorrow
Ryder Parker
23 yo trucker here can confirm 90% are old as fuck and fat as fuck
Levi Green
this is dumb as hell, there is a strict health physical that they would have to pass if they let their commercial license expire
Zachary Russell
Pretty sure , dot doesn’t let you drive more than 11hours. 16 hours , guy was breaking the law.
Mason Adams
That's because youngsters aren't taking up the trucking job
Luke Rivera
It pays shit and you get Jew'd every step of the way by the companies and the State.
Isaac Bennett
They would be replaced by younger drivers, probably at a pay increase due to the decreased labor pool.
That's because the old fucks staying in the job lowers the overall pay.
Oliver Nguyen
Exactly. Maybe if they still had a decent union that didn't rob the drivers or maybe if the trucking companies just took it upon themselves to pay decent wages, they wouldn't have to hire bums out of nursing homes.
Aaron Parker
>That's because the old fucks staying in the job lowers the overall pay.
What part of "luring senior citizens out of retirement" did you not understand?
Leo Morales
2016
Angel Lopez
>screaming autists run their voices hoarse: the thread
the part where they have to think before crying
Cooper Mitchell
maybe thats why there trying to push illegals here so much not them but the government
Jose Turner
can you elaborate?
Alexander Powell
Because foreigners are imported to take them. I work in shipping in a factory, a third of the truckers I deal with are foreign.
Nolan Cruz
That's what we get for not taking the BARGEPILL. River freight is safer and more cost-effective, but our river system has been neglected for a long time. I keep bringing this up, but there is little interest.
Oy vey goy rather than requiring an eye test you'd better stop hiring old (read: white) people and start training some Syrian refugees to drive these trucks, you wouldn't want any accidents there goy.
Aaron Collins
The only bad thing about tuck driving is that it's bad for family life. Great pay, great freedom, your mind is free do pursue whatever you want. It's just great.
Robert Reed
It's not old truckers causing accidents, it's retarded Pajeets undercutting everybody to the point were they only make money if they don't maintain the truck and then having a mechanical failure and killing people because they don't maintain anything
>t. trucker's son
Cameron Reyes
Not to mention the railway system. Back in the day reaching even close to a city would ensure a railway station. Now the population has expanded in areas by millions with the same railways from the 1800's.
Brayden Scott
Truckers literally drive the economy the fact that the economy is driven by an aging population that we can't replace at a fast enough rate is the perfect metaphor for what's happening to the west. And you don't people sit on the sideline doing nothing to fix the issue just complaining and looking to either fascism or socialism to save them.
Henry Ortiz
They are going to use this as a justification to fast track even more Middle eastern refuges into commercial truck driving. They did the exact same rollout in Germany
Connor Ramirez
They want to give these jobs to spics like in the EU. I'd rather have automation.
Robert Diaz
River cargo has actually become MORE efficient over time, since modern marine control systems make it easier to sail large barge "tows" of multiple barges at a time. The constraints are the locks (the biggest problem, both size and capacity), and dredging (the entire Missouri River mostly goes unused by cargo ships because of simple lack of maintenance; Omaha used to be a major port).
Should I do air Force and do 16 years and retire, I'd be truck driver.
Been watching videos for months in driving, being out in the road looks way better than being in an office all day. Someone convince me to drive a rig plz.
Jose Hall
*Or be a truck driver
Adam Garcia
They keep pushing this truck driver shortage meme but if you actually look into it the real issue is there's like 4 big truck driving companies and they are all run by scumbags that pay new drivers absolutely nothing and treat them like shit. You might hear this sort of stuff and think hey maybe that'd be something to get in to since there's a demand. I do not recommend it.
Thomas Jones
The older ones know the value of unions and how to strike. They should definitely be removed.
I guess the overseas strikes have the big companies worried. Without trucks the country stops. That's too much power in the hands of non billionaires.
Adam Collins
Trucking used to be a great American career force with good pay for hard work.
Now it's shit pay from dirty and crusty old kikes. Work at Taco Bell you'll probably get paid better.
>bring in more musilms to drive your trucks >end up with 90% muslim truck drivers >one day they all decide to have a "strike" >country goes to shit in a week >suddenly terrorist attacks everywhere
Colton Barnes
This. Find a warehouse or something and put in to be a forklift driver. You'll make more and be home every night.
Evan Smith
I work at a warehouse and hate dealing with the truckers. Some are okay but one dude didn't even know how to use his iPhone and was asking me to look shit up on it. Another one took a swing at my boss.
You might be too old to join military if you're 37. I believe 35 is the cutoff to join as a new recruit
Grayson Evans
this is literally propaganda.
Anthony Long
>I am a faggot that works at a warehouse
Oliver Gonzalez
It's crap now with elogs and even cameras installed inside cabs. The wild west days are long gone. It's a confinement cell on wheels with big brother keeping a close eye on you.
Jayden Ward
>2016
Colton Hall
Teamsters can’t keep any young guys, not surprising
Free market, this is what libertarians and ancaps want
Bentley Ross
>working 16 hour shift That was against the law anyway. ELD mandate forces drivers to drive 11 hours and have 3 extra hours on duty but not driving. My husband is out on the road right now and he complains about it all the time
David Williams
Don't know if anybody has taken a long trip recently, but I'm pretty sure this has to do with the worsening of other drivers. Drive down I-95 from PA to FL and you will quickly see the insanity. People drive like maniacs, and whatever it is that is causing it is probably the same thing that is causing the extremism and school shootings. There is definitely a societal problem at the root of this, and I think it can hardly be blamed on age.
Ryder Kelly
U.S. Xpress and Swift are hiring black women and pajeets, so there's been lots of accidents involving those companies. C.R. England has been hitting illegals too.
Isaac Watson
you have to have a pre-planned and approved route for each state you're passing through. highway patrol and state police are always waiting to shake you down for any small infraction, pulling you over without probable cause. the routes that get approved are usually shit as well
Jaxson Garcia
Watch out for CRST too, they hire hordes of niggers. Most of the Pajeets I see are running for the small reefer outfits out of central California.
Joshua Moore
Then let the West crash. I'm not putting myself in a dangerous, reckless, corrupt industry. Go convince some other chump
Joshua Brown
this, if the system is spoiled and corrupt then why participate? it isn't apathy as much as it is sacrificing yourself for a better future
Cameron Young
haha yea guys lets piss off truckers like brazile did. Also lets fire 90% of the truckers so that we "need" more migrants to fill the void. We can train refugees like germany XXD
Bentley Brown
>highway patrol and state police are always waiting to shake you down for any small infraction
I learned about this as I considered getting into trucking because I like to travel and I like driving. Then I watched some truckers on jewtube and changed my mind quickly.
Some states (and even municipalities) have special divisions to make sure they have the resources to fuck with you every mile of your trip.
I live in Chicago. Crazy fuckers everywhere on the freeways. Imagine being a trucker and having to put up with that 24/7
Nathaniel Gonzalez
Most of the tuck accidents I see involve wetback truckers. They often don't bother helping the peple they injured and just stay in their truck.
Luke Sanchez
>Oy vey! We need to import sandniggers to drive the trucks, goyim. I'm so fucking sick of the jew. Enough is enough.
William Morales
Outside of the bar/restaurant segment of the service industry, I can't think of anyone who treats their GOOD employees worse than trucking companies.
Ethan Harris
My uncle works in the industry and is retirement age but he likes to work dispatch after driving for over 20 years. They've begged him to drive again. But why? Because he says all the young drivers won't show up to work, they fuck around, they don't get the delivery there on time. Worst of all, they all pretend injury, get workman's comp for 6 months, come back, get " injured " again, take 6 months workman comp, get injured again, take 6 months workman comp. They can't seem to depend on younger drivers and it costs them a fortune.
Isaac Brown
Heartless Express comes to mind.
Liam Parker
Based on your flag I assume you're a kike, but most of the accidents I see involve shitskins.
Jaxon Baker
You shouldn't assume. Should I assume you are a mutt?
Hudson Ross
I’m 25, drive for an expedite courier regionally all over the southeast. I’ve considered getting my CDL because the demand is so high, everyday on Craigslist it’s just filled with ads, but the box truck and cargo vans are cozy. but 1,300$ a week sounds pretty comfy too.
Ohiofag here. Truckers get treated like shit by our faggot troopers. They have to grab every shekel they can, since the kikes and neocon traitors insist that working people pay to import wage-depressing shitskins.
Oliver Campbell
euthanasia kind of drastic? I think the problem goes away according to your article to just revoke the licenses?
Camden Mitchell
I don't give a fuck what you assume, nigger. Show your colors, jew.
Aiden Miller
Also: Central Transport
Nathan Robinson
I fucking hate Semi-trucks. Stay on the Freeway you niggers.
Henry Foster
you still need to truck them to wallmart
Jacob Campbell
Robo trucks when?
Samuel Johnson
And so it begins The propaganda war against non-automated transportation Has begun
Luke Johnson
>Wanting to put MORE boats in our river systems What part of already fucking polluted don't you understand? We already have the mighty Mississippi taken over by chink fish, you really want to add an influx of boating that will contaminate the water to that list of issues?
Nolan Clark
shit tier driverless truck psy-op
Carter Wilson
This. >oy vey we need more H1B poos to program the trucks, goyim
