Tons of trucking jobs ... that nobody wants

[PDJane]

102. A couple of other points:

If the maintenance on those trucks isn't good, you end up with problems like carbon monoxide poisoning; a state trooper realized that was what was wrong with a friend, and he ended up in the hospital, the truck impounded. If you have any kind of problem with the spine, the rattling around in a truck isn't going to help you.

Braking problems are another problem, and that happened to my father; the brakes seized on the downhill, and his truck ran into a family sedan. It wrecked his mental state for driving the big rigs, trust me. You don't want to hear the rest of that vicious tale.

A lot of those trucks have radios that are supposed to track the vehicle and the load, but can be tuned to pick up conversations in the cab.

This isn't a job that many people would want to do; you eat in restaurants, pay for showers and beds, have to stop to use the convenience, need to pack and do laundry on the road. You do get to see a lot of the country and if you read the news, get a change of viewpoint every now and then. But you also get a steady diet of reich wing radio and lousy music!