Truck drivers on the Highway?

Question

Do you think it's important to have truck drivers?

I am a Driver myself. I am just wondering how people feel about drivers on the road. I know drivers are important. I am getting a feel for others opinions of them.

Answer 1

I've been 12 years as a truck driver, 11 years as a police officer. trucks drivers are important, with the products this country uses and goes thru, trucks are heavily depended on to get us the products we so want and need. fuel, cars, food, clothing and the list goes on. as for BANDD, your comments are not exactly off base. Yes, there are truck drivers out there that DO drive faster than they should under some conditions, but, I see far more people driving their cars WAY too fast on the roads today, weaving in and out of traffic, no turn signals, cutting off other drivers, (both car and truck) driving too fast in heavy traffic, rain snow, narrow roads, doesn't matter. people need to slow down. And the country as a whole, needs to do away with split speed limits and limit everyone to the same speed. if you want to go faster, take it to a race track. After I ended my career as a policeman and started driving trucks, my attitude toward truck drivers changed drastically, they are the MOST proffessional bunch of drivers out there today. considering what they drive and the things they have to watch out for, they, for the most part, are the best this country has on the road today. And if I were still in law enforcement and in the highest possible position, I'd mandate that ALL police officers (before they put on the badge and get behind the wheel of the cruiser) go to truck driving school and drive a truck for a minimum of 1 year before they graduate from the academy, this way, they know better what todays truck driver goes thru. P.S. Bandd, how many tickets have I (or could I have) issued you??

Answer 2

I have drove truck's and owened my own for year's and now i'm disabled.But if you take everthing away from some one that came by truk they would be standing buck naked in a dirt field woundering what the hell to do next. As for these people say i wish they would slow down the next time you order something and it's not there when think it should be or when they said it would be there.That's the driver that slowed down.Not trying to be a smart *** about it but if you have never been out there dont knock it because it's not easy to keep up with dispatcher's that think you can drive all night and unload and load that day and be 1000 miles by the next day it just does'nt happen that way.Look at it this way my truck would run 110 mph and they would dispatch me at 200. Yes you can slow down but ya wont make it with some company's out there these day's

Answer 3

I would sure hope so, otherwise the food we eat at resturants and buy in the stores, and the clothes we wear wouldn't be able to get to the stores if it were not for truck drivers.

I AM a truck driver, also the streets you drive on or the sidewalks you walk on, or the foundations to the houses we live in wouldn't be there if it were not for cement truck drivers....Which I am 1 of. I have been driving ready mix truck for a couple years now before which I drove otr. Also if it were not for truck drivers we wouldn't have the houses we live in.

So YES it's VERY important to have truck drivers.

Honestly as a trucker, I get sick of people driving cars who don't realize that those big trucks don't stop on a dime, and cut us off. I've almost been in quite a few accidents because of idiots in cars who don't realize that we have alot of weight in them trucks to stop.

Answer 4

Without Truck Drivers, our nation would be crippled. I can't figure out how we could get the products we depend upon every day without the service provided by our truck drivers. Maybe we could just load all the shipments into multi-thousands of little cars and ship everything that way.

Answer 5

Think about it, Everything you buy in stores came from a truck, without truck drivers we would have nothing. Everything that was made had parts shipped in by a truck, without trucks we would be living in the dark ages.

Answer 6

They are very use full. That is going to be my job

Answer 7

Your a driver? As in Semi? I think that semi trucks need to stay out of the fast lane. cause its annoying when im hauling *** down the highway and get backed up by an 18wheeler.

Answer 8

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Answer 9

Well...if the truck drivers quit driving today we'd be out of gas in two days, milk in a week, meat in a week, fresh vegatables in three or four days, no newspapers, no new cars, no restocking McDonalds and Burger King and Wendys, cement plants would run out of rock in about five days, Lowes and Home Depot would run out of lumber in a week. and on and on and on

Answer 10

do you have a better way to move a product from one place to another inside the continential U.S.? NO, the answer is NO!!!! trucks move america, without them nothing would get where it needs to be, all the stores would be empty, everything would be in one location. shut up and grow up, then come back when you have some common sense!