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Re:America has a truck driver shortage by alistproducer2 on Monday May 28, 2018 @03:40PM (#17174377)
They are terrible jobs. Years ago I had a class B and drove dial-a-ride buses. All-in-all it wasn't a terrible job because I got frequent breaks between passengers and could get out of the truck on those breaks and hang out at a mall or get something to eat. My counterparts that drove the city buses had to stay in their seat for 8 hours driving in circles around town.

The other thing that people don't realize about those kind of jobs is, for men at least, they are very hard on your prostate. Sitting for such long periods can cause it to swell leading to prosatitus along with a whole host of other bad health effects. All that being said, our jobs were cake compared to long haulers. You would need to pay people $120-150k before you could get a consistent hiring pool.

Re:America has a truck driver shortage by tim333 on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @05:24AM (#17177641)
I guess maybe self driving trucks won't be a bad thing then.
Re:America has a truck driver shortage by stephengillie on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @05:42AM (#17177717)
The issue of self-driving trucks taking the jobs of truckers seems to be a unique occurrence where 2 problems solve each other.
Re:America has a truck driver shortage by samsonradu on Monday May 28, 2018 @04:36PM (#17174687)
At least you had passengers, truck drivers spend a ton of time alone which is quite terrible from a psychological point of view.
Re:America has a truck driver shortage by acou_nPlusOne_t on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @02:20AM (#17176888)
Solitary Confinment, here i go, turn the cage.