Starting in Truck Driving In My Mid-20's (employees, credit card, highest)
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When an autonomous truck runs into a minivan full of kids, there will be a national outrage and huge lawsuits.
Why aren't we flying on autonomous airplanes? Trains can be automated too, but there are still plenty of train engineers.
Airplane autopilots are close, and New York City's MTA is trying to run cars without engineers and conductors, but the union is preventing them.
The real reason we don't have aotonomous vehicles yet is because our computers, software, navigation and sensors haven't been up to the task. Yet. That is rapidly changing, and within years it will not only be possible, but cheaper than having humans drive.
Honestly, who would you rather be in control of a vehicle? A computer that has a complete picture of all vehicles for a mile in every direction, that can communicate with the truck in front of it so that it knows before the brakes are applied that the truck will slow down, and can calculate in a millisecond exactly how far it will go on an icy surface before stopping, or a driver that couldn't sleep last night due to indigestion, just had a fight with his spouse on the phone, and is only awake because of large amounts of caffeine that are playing havoc with his bowels?
If your only skill is holding a steering wheel and shifting gears, you are going to be run over by technology.
Instead invest in your self, by learning a specific skilled trade.
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That's pretty insulting. It takes quite a bit of skill to manage a big rig, maneuvering it through city streets to a loading dock, dealing with crazy drivers on the road and making it to the destination on time.
It sounds as though OP wants to give it a try, getting to see parts of the country he might not otherwise be able to, and make some good money doing it. Why discourage him with a condescending comment? He's plenty young....if in time he doesn't care for it, he can always veer off into another career.
OP - My younger son just turned 30 and has social anxiety disorder and hyperhidrosis. He wants to pursue a career in trucking for the same reason, he doesn't have to interact with people very much. In checking with someone we know who used to do this for a living he told us that there is such a shortage these days that some companies will actually pay you to become certified or get your CDL.
I saw a truck on the side of the road the other day, and when the driver's door opened, a big blob of fat jiggled out of it. It didn't look human. It was just a blob of fat.
I've seen a lot of those at the truck stops too, angry and stupid blobs of fat that swear constantly.
I wouldn't want to do it long term, but given that I like over the road long driving, I think it would be a cool thing to do fora few years in your 20s if you aren't settled down yet. Different experiences.
When I was in my mid 30's, I still enjoyed driving a lot and regularly had no problems going back and forth on I-5 between San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles (my folks lived in L.A. and I lived and worked up north).
I have not done that drive in almost 5 years since moving to Southern California.
My body definitely feels it driving for more than an hour, the back starts to ache, legs ache, etc. No way I could do that as a career now.
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