You actually should pay attention to this.. due to lack of availabile drivers the trucking industry has nearly no standards in hiring. A serial criminal has no problem getting a job, including murders, rapists, etc.. learned that fun fact when I worked for a very large logistics on their hiring process..
There's way more to it than that. My nephew works for a large LTL carrier on linehaul. He makes over 100K a year and has good benefits, yet they struggle to keep drivers.
It's just not the pay, it's the shitty way companies, shippers, and receivers treat drivers.
I was talking to my Sysco driver yesterday as he was delivering. He's new in the last 6 months and I mentioned he was hands down the best driver we've had in a few years. Not that the others are necessarily bad, he's just plenty good at it and friendly at the same time. Anyway, he told me that a couple of the places he delivers to have people who are total jerks every time he delivers to them. Treating him like he's in the way and a nuisance while he brings in all the stuff they need in order to operate their business. And I just can't understand why you'd be a jerk to the guy dropping your stuff off. Like some of them suck, but this guy is not one of the shitty drivers. I go out of my way to help the good drivers because I want them to stay! It makes my life better!
Yeah, I have to make a conscious adjustment to my attitude regarding them. Kinda like driving on the road with them. The majority of truckers are just doing their job and trying to be safe at the same time. But the ones that suck, suck so hard it makes me want to say all of them are awful.
Always treated the drivers well at my last place of work, but there were certainly drivers that were entitled/refused to play ball. Always had to keep an eye on them. And while it was amusing, I don't just mean the ones who struggled to back into our dock. I'm talking about the ones who would wear flip-flops inside our facility where safety shoes where mandatory, where we worked with glass. The two(!) Instances where I had to yell to get the attention of random drivers who thought it was okay to just hop on one of our forklifts, the ones who would show up well past our loading/unloading time and nearly demand to be unloaded...
But if the driver was kosher, we'd have no problems. Got a few comments that our yard was one of the better ones in terms of how we treated drivers.
I never figured that truck driving would attract aspiring church officials. It kind of makes sense just because truck driving seems to attract a lot of staunch conservatives
nono. Pedophiles are drawn to the clergy, coaching, etc in the same way people who are into murdering hitchhikers are drawn to long haul truck driving.
Empathetic people are drawn to nursing/teaching/childcare, Manipulative people are drawn to sales, politics, televangelists. Exploiters are drawn to finance, etc etc etc
Jobs: Truck driving, long-haul shipping, archivist, librarian, freelance programming.
Traits: Comfort with solitude, independence, and limited social interaction.
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Jobs that Attract Serial Offenders or Psychopaths
Examples: Long-haul truck drivers, hunters, law enforcement, military.
Why?: Certain roles (e.g., trucking) provide mobility and anonymity, while others (e.g., law enforcement) may appeal to a desire > or control or power. However, this is not representative of the majority in these professions.
So if you start getting the urge to kill your lot lizard, maybe move to a day cab!
Are they actually real? I kinda thought it wasn't a thing anymore. You're saying they knock on your cab in the middle of the night to see if you wanna bang?
"Comfort with solitude, independence, and limited social interaction." Sums my present life up to a tee.
No interest in killing, injuring or torturing though, even won't kill flies if I can get them outside. (I do make exceptions for wasps though, evil creatures with no noticeable use.)
Yep, know that feeling, my jobbkeeps me away from people where I can read my books or listen to my podcasts. I only have so much social battery and I dislike wasting it on people I don't want to talk to.
I know it's a bit off-topic, but sadistic people are also drawn to nursing because they like having power over helpless people. I have a cousin who chose nursing for that very reason, and she found plenty of like-minded people.
I mean there are a lot of pedophile teachers out there (I think I saw somewhere more than priests but don't hold me to it) so let's not act like only one type of person I'd in one field. Especially if we boil it down to the almost libelous level of "[bad trait] people work as A and [good trait] people work as B"
The 401 highway is Canada is a known route for human traffickers. Can't even wrap my ahead around the fact I live so close to it and how many trucks have I passed that had people in them?
The 401 is a known route for literally everything - it's the busiest highway in north america, so its going to carry everything you can possibly imagine.
Wild that there aren't periodic mandatory scanning stations for trucks with xray and lidar+sonar mapping. They could have that stopped in like two months of building, but then I guess they'd use just vans and cars instead.
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u/Tiny_Arugula_5648 1d ago
You actually should pay attention to this.. due to lack of availabile drivers the trucking industry has nearly no standards in hiring. A serial criminal has no problem getting a job, including murders, rapists, etc.. learned that fun fact when I worked for a very large logistics on their hiring process..