Is The Professionalism of Truck Drivers COMPLETELY Gone?
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- Опубликовано: 26 мар 2024
- Is Professionalism of Truck Drivers COMPLETELY Gone? In this video, Dave talks about the state of the industry, and how professionalism seems to have disappeared from the truck driver population.
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There is definitely a need for improvement in the professionalism department in our industry. I literally shake my head at the things I see everyday.
I do lunch every Thursday in Medford Oregon with a group of 10 to 15 retired truck drivers. These guys were the professional drivers you are talking about. Well spoken, well dressed and well mannered.
I drive a brand new brilliant white tractor trailer with crisp lettering that isnt peeling. It gets washed every two weeks or so by a company. The work uniforms are high quality and sharp. I always have my head held high and a smile on my face when i hop out and put product away.
It isn't gone. Even if 1 trucker shows professionalism and respect, others will follow. Lead by example.
No they wont. To many non citizens.
I truly miss the camaraderie that they used to be in the trucking industry. That was one of the parts of the job we were a group of guys who were fighting the same battle altogether, helping each other out.
Old School Values made professional drivers. Got us a lot of Respect too!
It’s not gone but it’s definitely rare. Some of us still keep it alive.
There are still some good professionals out here, but they're fewer and farther between now.
When you start looking around you will notice the drmographics have changed from when I started back in the 70's. Gone is flashing the lights on a pass, and a thank you flick of your Marker Lights. A freindly wave, and wearing a Cowboy Hat and Boots, with country music playing on the stereo, or the Jukebox at the Truckstop that served real fresh homestyle cooking. Glad Im retired. Most out there are Steering Wherl Holders. They ain't Truckers.
I try to be professional everyday. I dress well and yes sir yes ma’am people to death. I’m clean and fresh and try to do the same to my truck. I’m polite on the cb and I give right of way to you veteran truckers everyday. Stay blessed folks.
Back when the speed limit was 55 I didn't have any problem. I always got a kick out of when the the same truck would pass me like every 75 to 100 miles
Gosh I wish the speed limit was 55 everywhere. That's just the perfect cruising speed if you ask me, and gets you the best fuel mileage. But if you try and cruise like that nowadays it feels like you're standing completely still the way everyone passes.
Yeah, you stay stuck in your ways. 55mph, you're paying me a dollar a mile to steal that much of my time. 🙄
Let's just say that the majority are not projecting professionalism. I drove in the 80's and came back as a retirement project over the last 5 years.
It is an absolute disgrace where this industry has gone. IMHO
60 mph is the best speed for me no stress and you enjoy the view instead of flying thru everything at 68 plus
A now retired trucker friend of mine always told me it's of great importance to look the part and be professional. He had many different models of trucks in his carreer, several different brands and usually used. Within 2 weeks he could make any truck look beautiful for what it could. He was a stickler for maintaining his truck, himself, and the loads hauled, doing the best he could. He was a good teacher by example whether he knew it or not. I think about the things he taught me years back when im on the road. Thankful i listen to him.
Want that professional pay too
🤣🤣
WEll Said and I so agree not like the 70s
I watch many of these videos as I have nothing but respect for most drivers. At 50 sum years old, I still believe that if you bought it a driver brought it. I am fortunate to have passed this knowledge onto my kids, and one day my grand children.
I respect drivers so much that even though I have never driven a big truck, I learned the ways, the language, and how to drive proper.
I was honored to work maintenance for a Fly’in hook for a time in Burque, NM. I was proud that I could help and support drivers. Returning a thanks for all the work and sacrifices that drivers make everyday.
Drivers and my grandfather got me hooked on CB, eventually GMRS, and more recently Ham, but to this day I refuse to drive any vehicle that does not have a CB in it.
As a kid I would pump my arm at every truck that drive by, hoping to hear to big horns that are so unique to the big truck (not realizing until years later that it was illegal for drivers to use their air horns for such a “frivolous” reason). When I was young and dumb, I owned Datsun 270 z/x, and my trust in drivers capabilities that I would not hesitate to pull up navy to a trailer, reach my hand out, and touch the trailer, I was confident in the drivers so much that I never questioned whether it was dangerous or not . I was an idiot to be sure.
I remember a time when a driver would pull over to help you change a tire, or get you down the road to the next service station.
Today
I keep the CB in my vehicles, even though it is awful quiet on the roads and in the truck stops of the Southwest high desert areas. I still have respect, I still give the big truck the right of way, I still blink my lights to signal the big trucks over from the hammer lane, I thank drivers and respect them as best I can.
I would not drive up next to a truck and touch a trailer on the big I’s like I used to. Drivers today are in such a rush today that I am just as likely to get run over changing a flat on the side of the road.
I do NOT trust drivers today as I have in yesteryears, the skill and professionalism of then has not survived, and not just because of drivers today, the industry as a whole has ground down the profession into nothing but a cog, and has passed this attitude down to the very folks who are responsible for my day to day life.
Living here in the upper desert, if the drivers don’t bring it, there’d be a lot more ghost towns in short order.
I still respect drivers and their sacrifices, and I am proud of the relationships I have made over the decades, with folks, still driving and retired.
This old boy just hit me in the feels.
Reminding me of all that is good for and about drivers.
All you drivers out there know that there are those of us that respect you and appreciate all you do.
A revival for the old ways, the right ways, needs to happen, but it will not happen if us older folk do not pass down our ways, and you younger folks need to have a care and listen.
Respect brothers.
I am a vanlifer now, and spend a lot of time in NM roads. If y’all ever need anything, any help, or just to chew fat to keep yourselves awake or avoid white line fever. Turn on that CB and give a holler for Lazyboy 160 or a call out for WRWN413 on you’re GMRS radio on open repeaters in the New Mexico area, if I can hear you, I will be there waiting patiently to serve.
Bless y’all folks. I am always looking for better days and better ways.
Lazyboy 160 from all over New Mexico.
We’re 10/10 10/7 on the side.
73’s
Dave, you are correct. It’s not just the truck. It’s how you present yourself to your customers and to your boss. Take some pride and what you do that goes along way. Unfortunately, a lot of those don’t know what that even means.
Not keeping liter picked up in parking lots has been the reson some places no longer allow truck to park there.
Maybe the first step towards professional is to hire an actual citizen that speaks and understands the language
Absolutely when u trying to sleep and western express and swift park next to me at night I start having a panic attack
It’s been gone since the day after they did away with the PVC. plates back in the 70’s.
I may not always succeed, but I try to look and act like a professional. I'm always wearing jeans and work boots with a shirt that's appropriate for the season and weather, so I LOOK like I'm ready to go to work. I keep my equipment as clean and in shape as I can. We lost our facilities for washing trucks due to major construction at our terminal, there's mud and dust everywhere as a result, and the clutter in my cab is stuff I use to help keep my equipment WORKING as it should (I keep a supply of oil and grease for all my hitches since I lube them every time I hook).
It just isn't truck drivers it's the whole working community nobody has any respect for themselves and the others and their property and others properly most of all they don't care about showing respect working at their job it's terrible😊
Professionalism disappeared the same time basic etiquette that us old timer truckers have vanished; thinking back about it and this was around the same time that the c.b. radio started to disappear and more computerized devices were disconnecting people, is my thought.
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It has been gone a long time . Their is no brotherhood in trucking like their once was
Dispatchers have no clue either . I did drive in a pair of mocassins because my feet felt better but if I was on a dock I had approximate shoes on even in the office
I harped about this when I worked for others, and I harp about it to my fellow drivers now that I've had my own rig for several years now. Not really a lot of traction in either case..it's a different world now and the majority of guys pushing wheels down the road view it as barely a job, let alone a profession. But I figure you never get a second chance to make a first impression. Keep a professional attitude and equipment, then if/when things go south for some reason, you'll generally have that history and personal bearing on your side to smooth things out.
I've seen more changes over the last 2.5 decades than the industry really needed. One thing that I remember from years ago was how a lot of drivers had a problem with anyone calling themselves a professional driver.
As if it were a bad thing. I never understood their logic. It didn't take me long to ascertain that those guys were a bunch of yay-hoos with 💩 for brains.
I wish I could poke along, wish I could drive 50 mph whole way
Appnt time doesn't allow that... you aren't old fashion
Clean equipment & clean clothes is good image
I love Shaffer I almost always cruise all the time at 60 mph
The best image to convey when stepping out of the Cab is a business appearance or company uniform as is UPS drivers most companies now prefer a standard issue uniform drivers that insist on the Cowboy look or One Percenter biker look or Mobster look are going to have difficulty gaining professional employment in some genres of employment I would also like to see Truckline service courtesy Cars like WestCoast Freight /Tank Lines did back in the 1940s & 1950s where they not only helped & checked on their own fleet but would help any motorist in distress with emergency fuel or breakdown or flat tire repair or directions / ect ect ect !!!!
Flip flops and shorts aren't professional enough? Drivers should be wearing Spider-Man jammies instead.
I've seen some truckers wearing pajamas and slippers at work, like WTF? Do you think you're at home on a Sunday morning or something?
Professional enough? Flip Flips and shorts are NOT 🚫 professional at All...
I literally saw a "truck driver" wearing nothing but a terry cloth bath robe and matching slippers to get out of his cab and take his paperwork inside the shipping office to check in. I have photographic proof
A lot look like they don’t care because they really don’t……
Want you to know thats its not dead yet but its dying slowly. Im one year younger that your pete and i carry myself clean and professional my interior is always clean, always in jeans and nothing else. but the problem is it's too easy to get in a semi these days so you get all type of people in it and automatic trucks is mostly what causes it. yes this industry have definitely gone bait and for the worst. most these new guys out here aren't truckers it's just job to them [steering wheel holders]. i've seen truck interiors than doesn't look any different than dumpster, its shocking. glad i got good upbringings and even if i didnt i would still carry myself good because my passion for trucks is unmatched
I don’t get it. I’ve seen guy in flip flops wearing sweatpants that are terrible dirty and a tee shirt with last weeks mustard stain down the front. I keep the inside of my truck as clean as my wife keeps the house. Also too when the waitress at the truck stop calls you hun or sweetheart it doesn’t mean she wants to crawl into the bunk with you. Frankly I get embarrassed from what I see.
Clean clothes hard top shoes and shower and smell good would go a. Long way. Your representing you employer or you self
Representing my self. I care about my employer as much as they care about me.
To answer your question.....Yes, it's gone, and will be a long time to come back do to the type of people who now drive our highways these days!
The respect is gone. I don't know about the professionalism.
No benefits, no healthcare, no overtime, minimum wage= non-professional industry.
A lot of this has to do with the region where you're driving. I'm primarily in the Midwest, up and around Chicago and areas near Detroit is where you see all of the dirty trucks and drivers looking like they just rolled out of bed. A lot of that just has to do with the culture they were brought up in melding with Trucking. They will run local for pennies because they can't get a job elsewhere and they have no incentive financially or culturally to better themselves because those companies don't care about professional drivers they care about drones to haul a trailer from point A to point B as cheap as possible.
But you start getting into the more rural areas and come across the cross country drivers who live in their truck most of the time and they actually care a little bit more. They represent their own brand because they are not basically bound to servitude for a super hauler. I definitely agree with personal accountability, even though a lot of the guys at my shop look like bums and gang bangers I still wear a button up shirt and steel toe boots with nice jeans. But I wasn't raised here either, and I'm one of the higher-paid guys because I've been around for a while and I leverage my professionalism for that. Incentive and culture need to work together and stop being bought by corporate greed
It could be great, not in our working lifetimes.
Start by saying that wages are the biggest problem guys with 20 years experience out there making penny's. Sad I'm lookin for a way out.
Probably getting up to go to the latrine is enough exercise to stay on the road a couple more years.
If you drive in Ca. there is no relaxed driving
Yes, about 92%
Speaking english helps too
you get what you pay for
There's no thing of being old-fashioned professionalism is professionalism this is a Man's Job not a kindergarten class.. say no to BoneHead Truckers and real Truckers don't wear flip flops...
Flip flops sweat pants no English u mite be onto something
You lost weight. What’s going on?
Real truckers don't wear flip flops
Sandles sweats no socks thongs crocks,such a sad generation