What is the best job for robots and why is it truck driver?

What is the best job for robots and why is it truck driver?

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because it's rid of almost all social contact for extended periods of time?

The $80k salary doesn't hurt either.

Truck Driving fucking sucks.
I was one for a year before I had enough and quit.
hahahahaha

Let me guess, you drove for a mega?

It doesn't matter if you drive for some shitty mom and pop shop or a mega company.
Its all the same.
I wouldn't say Truck Driving isn't necessarily a robot job, but only for specific kinds of robot.
I im as robot as they come, and I fucking hated it after I realized I fell for a meme.

i guess that's why nearly every single 18 wheeler i see on the road has a big "hiring drivers" sign on the doors of the trailer

Waiting to turn 21 so I can do this. Currently 18.

The turn over rate is extremely high which is why most veteran truck drivers are all old farts whove been in the business since the 80s.
Its not really worth it for most young people when the realize how much they have to sacrifice on top of all the extra bs they have to deal with.

I was working 60-70 hrs a week as a truck driver, but was only making like 500$ for every pay cheque. If I was putting in that amount of work at a normal job Id bring home thousands of dollars a week.
When my dispatch sent me like 3 hrs out to some city in MD to pick up a load that wasn't even there and gave me the wrong address I knew I was in for a rough day. Then I when arrived, they tell me i had to move like 4 other trailers just to get mine since the yard was a complete clusterfuck. It was then I finally snapped and just said fuck and drove straight to my home terminal and im done.

The first year sucks ass, no doubt about it. But after that you start making way more money, getting easier runs, and being home more often. A lot of people aren't willing to stick it out long enough to see the benefits though.

You can do truck driving for agricultural purposes right now if you want.

>muh benefits

How does truck driving work in America. Are your trucks automatic? Are they manual transmission?

Say want you want driver. I'm in a cushy run where I go home every week and never see a dock, and net $1200 a week, but that came after a few years of otr cucking.

Big companies are switching their trucks over to autos right now, but most of them are still 10,13, or 18 speed manuals.

Good for you m8, seriously.
Just keep in mind like 95% of of trucking jobs are shitty OTR positions.
Everyone wants a local job where they are home every week and don't have to deal with all the bs.
That's one of the reasons why there's a trucker shortage in the first place.

>What is the best job for robots and why is it truck driver?
Except its LITERALLY a job for robots, as in self driving rigs.

It's only a matter of time before trucking is a career of the past. Get into something that actually requires skills or you're going to be out of a job soon

My dad is a long haul truck driver in Canada. He says they're all automatic.

I heard it's harder to get that sorta job especially if you're young. And they're fewer and further between than the standard OTR jobs which is what I'm looking to get into.

Fuck, that's living the dream. As if it couldn't get any easier, the trucks are now auto as well. Trucker life for me, soon.

I was a trucker for like 4 months and got fired for backing into docks wrong lol. Now I can't get hired anywhere.
Oh well, atleast I can make a living with Uber

>Get into something that actually requires skills
As such?
>inb4 programming

Sounds bizarre. The industry is really hurting for drivers. My dad's friend fucked up on three separate occasions way worse than just failing to back up into docks. He still got a job after the first two fuckups. Unfortunately can't recall the exact details but they were worse than what you described.

Get out, no one wants to hear your end times prophecies. I don't care what happens in 30 years, right now I'm making fat cash and the wages just keep going up.
They do require you to be 23 sometimes 25 for the most part, and it helps to get on if you will team with some one. Nothing wrong with otr, your essentially a professional tourist, and your days off can be spent on a beach or at a mountain resort, it's amazing where Uber can take you these days.
Now's the Time man, we're 1/4 drivers shy in the U.S and growing atm. Big companies will hire anyone with a pulse and they're paying now what the better companies were paying a decade ago.

Look into to covenant Transport. They're all about Jesus and second chances.

>Now's the Time man, we're 1/4 drivers shy in the U.S and growing atm. Big companies will hire anyone with a pulse and they're paying now what the better companies were paying a decade ago.

What are my chances if I don't live in the US? I'm from the UK, could I come over and work? I'm a workhorse, did 60-70 hours a week for 2 years straight no sweat, if it's just driving I can easily do that.

Happy to do long haul, happy to work holidays and Christmas and anything, really solitary and don't need any socialising, happy to spend long stretches of time isolated driving across the country.

No thanks, im good.
I was told by my former company that Id pretty much never work in trucking again with a record like that.

1 question, are you a Somalian or Pakistani?
If not then come on over. They hand out h1bs for truckers like candy

You think I can become big truck driver if I have DUI?

Maybe, but it is a lot harder than without. How long ago was it?

most truckers have DUI's

No, I'm white British. Fucking Hell lad, really? Okay, what do I need qualification wise?

Couldn't say, but every other person at a truck stop anymore is foreign. I think you have to get hired first and then that is enough of a qualifier to get you in, but im not certain on that.

Huh, I assume at the very least I would need an HGV license though or something, right? I don't even have a driving license in the UK at the moment, but is there even any point or should I just come over and earn one in the US first?

Not that guy but I consider programming more of a skill than driving.

Most big companies will train you to drive. An international license can be swapped out for a CDL permit here. I had a handful of UK people in my driver class who did just that.

Fuck mate, thanks for your help. Going to look into this further.

Oh man, people on the internet think we're not skilled, whatever shall we do? Oh yeah that's right, live well within our means and retire at 50.

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Like 6 months ago

Usually they want 3-5 years, but you can always try.

Okay, I've read you need a regular license for at least a year before you are eligible for CDL. I'm going to obtain an automatic license here in the UK then, shouldn't take me long, then within a year I'll look to swap it for an American one and come over and go through CDL.

Well yeah, driving isn't really a "skill".
If you make money doing it then by all means by that doesn't change the fact that at the end of the day you're still just driving.

Nobody here is really arguing it's a skill, it's one of the easiest jobs in the fucking world, man. If you can deal with isolation and the boring nature of it, that's you.

It would drive most people crazy, believe it or not, I know it's hard to believe for robots from Jow Forums, but solitude does actually have an incredibly negative effect on most regular people, they go stir crazy because they end up alone with their thoughts and they start thinking things we've not been able to stop thinking from birth.