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Nov 18, 2010

TRUCKERS' STORY * USA - Trucking: 'frozen in time'

The modern trucker has been through a lot


Portland,ORE,USA -The Examiner, by Robert Biffle -November 16, 2010: ...  Indeed, even while earning a 'frozen in time' wage, the modern motor carrier's employees are heading towards a storm... He's typically carrying on polluting the air and wasting fuel trying to make progress in areas where traffic lights are set to make him stop as often as possible. Having constant and terrific new rules shoveled down his throat. Always more legislation and saftety regulations about pollution, weight limits, load configurations, changing routes, chains, hours of operation & when and where to berth. Faced with taking responsibilty for whatever load, whatever destination, in whatever condition he recieves the equipment he is forced to use. Safely contending with 4 wheelers who appear to be designed to irritate anyone with rational driving habits. They arrive as a visitor at every dock with it's own format and procedures to observe. To then try to earn his living among those periodic instances of breakdown, or where freight is damaged or rejected, he has a family and a mortgage and not an easy life. Most are (or should be) miserable in what they do. Consider the family of our modern trucker, if it's not hubby and wife sharing the sleeper berth, trying to make ends meet while earning 2007 wages in a 2011 economy of inflation. Stay at home wives typically care for children and get tired of the trickle down effect, while their husbands are trucking for 3 weeks at a time for an ungrateful America... If you want to help a trucker, consider his plight, and if you help in no other way as a result of this, open up a lane to give him on the freeway whenever you are driving with him...

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