This blog post comes as a response to an email I got. The writer of this email said he was highly disgusted that so many unprofessional truckers where disgracing the trucking industry. The writer expressed his feelings that many of these drivers were posted very immature videos and the trucking industry did not need this.

I have heard it said many times over the years “Why was that driver robbed”? And the question that quickly surfaced in my mind was “Why Not”. Many drivers are robbed at gun point every year some even lose their life to such a horrible crime. But if one would stop and look at the picture for just a moment they would also see the Big Picture of why truckers are robbed so often. First off when someone knows the person they are robbing has a job there is no chance they are robbing a unemployed person. Everyone in America knows the percentage of drivers make good money and stay away from home for long periods of time. When a driver is on the road he must have a way to support himself on the road (But criminals are stupid they haven’t caught on most everyone carries Debit Cards”. When a driver is robbed he must spend time he probably doesn’t have waiting on the cops and theirs hours of questions. Not to mention having to return to the area for court if the criminal is caught. There is a lot more reasons which make the Trucker a perfect target. Life on the road can hard and more truckers can tell you times they came close to being robbed or was robbed then them that weren’t. All and all it’s sad a Man/Woman sacrifices so much and hast to worry about the scum of the world while try to make a living. Support Jason’s law http://www.jhlrivenburg.com/ and maybe some of the problems like this can be lessened.

Peterbilt’s parent company, Paccar, says it will permanently close its truck plant in Madison, TN, where the workers are UAW members, and move the work to its nonunion plant in Denton, TX. The Madison plant stopped making trucks in July 2008 when union contract talks broke down.

Crisscrossing the country, hundreds of thousands of long-haul truckers use computers in their cabs to get directions and stay in close contact with dispatchers, saving precious minutes that might otherwise be spent at the side of the road.

A Missouri man pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges that he was responsible for the deaths of 10 people this summer in one of the state’s deadliest traffic accidents.

I usually don’t blog about the stuff you would see on your local 6 o’clock news channel, but this pisses me off. After reading the story today about Irene Vilar who has a Abortion Addict, I set back and said OMG.