simcor:
I think some people need to remove their rose tinted spectacles. Many jobs years ago were not as safe as they are these days, not just truck driving.In both times there will be and are those who are crap at the job and will cause carnage, whether like back in the day or now there will always be those people.
In the old days there were deffo crap drivers yes, but there is a big difference between a poor driver and an incapable, inept and ■■■■ useless one.
The latter were filtered out, because in those days driving an old truck and a car was like comparing chalk to cheese, they were not that easy, enigmatic non synchronized gearboxes to name one aspect, but nowadays a truck is essentially the same as driving a bloody big car in terms of similarities … so imo that is why we get the clowns and the chimps, because there is no net to stop them getting through any longer…virtually anybody can pass a test to drive a one.
After saying that there are also a lot of good drivers today as in older times, it’s just that the previously mentioned clowns and chimps stand out more.