I have never been a truck driver to earn a living. I tried to back one up once years ago when the regular yard driver was busy. And I have rented numerous 20-26 foot trucks to move from one state to another due to new jobs. My brother has been a fleet manager, and one of our grown children has just become a tractor trailer driver for his employer.
It is an important job. While there has been concern about there being enough tractor trailer drivers for a few years now, we have seen during the last year or so during the manufactured crisis due to the COVID-19 just how important they are.
During the last week of the date of this blog post, there have been some articles about the consequences of a "trucker shortage." You know that many in the Lamestream Media can't pass up a chance for fearmongering.
But the concern itself is real, and applies to other employment categories as well. We could point to numerous reasons for the problem, but it is not my intention to get into that in this blog post. From the human perspective it could cause some serious problems down the road that could be gradual and progressive. We as parents and grandparents should be encouraging and guiding our children and grandchildren to become truck drivers. Companies should be doing more to get people to become truck drivers. And the government needs to stop burdening these companies with to much taxes and regulations.
Lastly, us Christians would do well to include this issue in our prayers.
~ Pester Brat
