This industry like so many others is now managed on the idea that one size fits all, where everyone is assumed to be as big an idiot as the worse employee on the company, instead of training up and encouraging the best, too many train down.
Not in any way comparable to pilots, who have years of training.
The train drivers have done well for themselves because they stuck together and have had proper union leadership, which they in turn supported, too many lorry drivers are not in a union and are actively anti union, hence why the terms and conditions in so much of the industry are ■■■■ poor.
Pride in the job has taken a dive, in any yard you visit only a minority will take any sort of pride in their work, the attitudes of the rest vary and the results can be seen every day out on the road, and in the condition of the vehicles being driven.
Sadly it seems to be the case that those who don’t give a tuppenies are more likely to influence new drivers in a yard, than those who do take pride, this is exacerbated by ■■■■ poor management who don’t reward good drivers but instead tend to load them up with more work (for the same pay), and those who ■■■■ about get an easier ride cos the planner/managers don’t want to manage proper like the dead wood and sick notes.