The trucking life is a hard life. Any professional driver involved in OTR trucking will confess to this fact. Even local drivers will admit that operating in the world of trucking is a tough business. Seventy hour work weeks and simply not enough rest are a few of the standards for the trucking life.
I was listening to a talk show on the radio the other night and they were discussing the dangers of our world being overpopulated. I just had to chuckle to myself. For all the truckers that have ran through such states as Montana and Wyoming, just to name a few, I simply do not believe we are overpopulated. When you can drive for hundreds of miles and only see a "few" other vehicles on the road, where is the mass population? In fact, the amount of industrialization for the U.S. stands at only 3-5 percent! The "overpopulation" exists within the cities of America.
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Allen Smith, our official Trucking/Truck Driver Training Expert
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