Juddian:
stevieboy308:
Juddian:
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You always seem to want to be stuck in the past! Unless you’ve got hold of the reigns and feeding the horse, then you’re not a proper trucker, eh?!
Maybe, yes i do prefer the old ways, like honour integrity morals and courtesy in people, back in the days when a man’s word meant something, as well as the old ways we used to do the job.
However, there’s another side to this, and i’m a little surprised that it should need expanding.
I can’t be the only one who realises that the end game in all this progress is the removal of the driver from the lorry, or at the very least a minimising of the number of skilled drivers needed to do the job, there will always be a certain amount of hands on whatever they do, but they are trying their best to make the vehicles more or less drive themselves.
Why are drivers welcome this automating of their job, it’s aimed at dumbing the job down so any bugger can sit in a lorry and point the thing, and when any bugger can do it any bugger does do it, no shortage of any buggers so the job can be low paid.
As stated a few posts above a few days course followed by a quick test and hey presto one fully skilled lorry driver hits the road.
The blokes earning well now in the transport game are doing jobs that they can’t automate and still require some nous, the vast bulk of lorry jobs though have become chauffering and little, else.
This is what so many wanted, and up to a point i understand it, but you have to look further than a ■■■■ easy job you are doing now and try to see whats coming next.
Yes the job was harder in years gone by, it was a bloody sight harder still 30 years before i started too, but i believe we’ve gone too far in welcoming what they tell us we need.
I don’t expect much agreement with this view, but hopefully it will give you an insight why i say what i do about not being too keen on things that make our job easier (only they don’t), they aint doing it to make our lives easier or any other benevolent reason, they’re doing it to make it easier to get any cheaply bought and trained sod off the street and onto that seat behind the wheel.
But you’re making out we should, or even could stop progress, we can’t and we shouldn’t!
It’s pointless whinging about progress, embrace it.
You want to have the job harder and less comfortable than it needs to be to put people off wanting to do it so the supply : demand favours better money. I understand how that works, just given the choice. I’d trade some brass to have an easier, more comfortable life, don’t take that as I’m work shy, far from it, it’s just common sense.
There’s a definite possibility that in my remaining working life that the truck driver in general could become redundant, so be it, if and when that day comes, I’ll be one of the few left specialising, or I’ll go and do something else.
Yes progress takes jobs, the car factory has been mentioned, but it also gives jobs, how many people work in the mobile phone industry? It’s only been mainstream for around 20 years.
I’m not going to want a stop on progress to ensure the job I do now will still need doing when I retire. I’m guessing central heating wasn’t too kind to coal men and chimney sweeps, roof tiles probably had a hand in the fall in numbers of thatchers in the country, it be pointless still paying firemen on trains. The interweb is killing off what was once a licence to print money - printers! Only taxes and death are guaranteed in life.
What would you like to see banned or progress halted to save jobs? But it might stop my future career that hasn’t even been dreamt up yet that is my absolute calling in life.
I work on a farm, a pretty big farm, I couldn’t imagine the amount of staff needed in yesteryear compared to now. All them numbers that used to be needed aren’t sat on the dole, they’re doing something else, unemployment is there or there abouts over the last 150 years. When I worked on the arable side, one of my jobs was the Sprayer driver, now by today’s standards it was very basic, a modern one now will automatically raise and lower the boom, including bending at the elbow, steer itself down the tramlines, automatically switch on and off the spray including upto individual nozzle switching. I’m glad I started and learned the manual way and in a truck before sat nav and auto boxes. But I love the modern stuff and the way when I had to go and fill in on the drill tractor as a novice, it would drive itself to 20mm accuracy all day long, well most of it, then I had to steer it and I wished I’d done a bit before auto steer on that too!
I don’t wanna alter the supply and demand by driving scrap and chewing my ■■■■■■■■ off, I want it altering through stuff like the dcpc, make it tested, make it harder, not scrapped as many want. Backing the lack of 7.5t with a car licence, backing anything that will make it harder or more expensive to become and remain a truck driver, not calling stuff like that like many do. I’d even have modules / ticket / tests for different trailer / body types too, I don’t think many would agree with me through!
