Truckers are the worst drivers and possibly the worst people

Truckers are far better than you are

What’s your hurry?

They should only be allowed on the interstate at night

It annoys me but then I remember that without them we would not have all of our stuff to buy at stores. Also, tbf dont they have governors on them? I will agree passing or them being in the left lane causing congestion behind them can get dicey.

For as many hours as they spend on the road, you’d think 18 wheeler drivers would know the left lane is for passing.

I have to deal with truckers every day. I also manage 6 of them that haul containers from the port to our warehouse. There are three kind of truck drivers. The first is the professional truck driver. They do a great job and represent their industry in a positive manner. The second is good drivers but they are peculiar to deal with and more often then not pretty reliable. The third is what I call steering wheel huggers. They can’t drive for shite and are a pain in the arse to deal with. Generally just dumb as a box of rocks or just assholes.

Concerning the passing thing independent truck drivers that own their own rigs is becoming rare these days. Larger national companies own most of the fleets you see driving up and down the highways. The tractor is generally leased through someone like Penske who performs all the maintenance on the fleet. They govern these trucks to run about 70 to 72 mph to conserve fuel and to keep their drivers from speeding. It’s hell for them to pass each other when they can’t accelerate past each other. If they stick their rig on cruise control they continuously run up on each other because some trucks are only a few miles per hour faster but it does make a difference over several miles. So when they try to pass I think the slower truck just needs to back off his speed a tad bit and let the other one by. That’s common professional courtesy. But the steering wheel huggers are too dumb to let the other guy go past him which drives me nuts.

Having said all this, if every trucker in the U.S. took 2-3 weeks off this country would be screwed because there would be nothing on the shelves in the stores nor would there be fuel at the gas stations. I really preferred it when there were more independent truck drivers on the road but those guys drove 95 MPH and many operated in an unsafe manner all jacked up on meth running two log books. Truck driving is a tough career path so I do respect the good ones out there. But the idiots sure make the professional ones out there look bad.

My wife hates having to be behind them.

I of course go “Chuck Harder” mode and start talking about how our economy would really get screwed w/o truckers.

Bro you left St Louis and went to Memphis and you’re worried about truck drivers getting you killed?

Nope. They've gotta go a half mile an hour faster and pass that slow fricker holding them up in the right lane. That shite pisses me off. Make that shite illegal and start ticketing them consistently.