High schoolers are training to drive 18-wheelers amid a shortage of truck drivers

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6. I am guessing you never served, or drove a semi over the road..

The training, and operational environments are completely different between an 18 yo by himself or with another inexperienced (We refer to the rookies training themselves as dumb and dumber) driver in a 75' long, 80,000lbs behemoth, traveling at 75mph outside a war zone and on your six.

The other 18 yo, an individual who never stops training as long as they are in the military, operating almost without exception under the eyes of experienced NCO's and the officers above them, in one of the most highly regimented organizations on the planet.

One thing isn't like the other..