A Survival Guide for Truck Drivers: Tips From the Trenches

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Summary: Think Twice Before Becoming a Trucker, Sonny
Review: The author expresses genuine concern for the welfare of those who may be considering a career in what is the modern-day equivalent of indentured servitude. However, after surviving for many years in the trucking biz, I'd advise all but the most desperate job-seekers to steer clear of the cesspool known as over-the-road trucking. Now, if you enjoy being treated like an animal, enjoy being treated like a common criminal, enjoy surviving on a fat-laden junk food diet and enjoy living on 4-5 hours of sleep every day, then by all means, join up.
If you get your kicks from searching out a safe place to park your rig in order to obtain some sleep in North Jersey during a snowstorm and having cops beat on your door all night long because you're 'illegally parked'- please, join up now. And if, because the law also says that you can't idle your truck's motor to run the heater on a 5 degree January night, you end up with walking pneumonia, and if that kind of thing appeals to you, then by all means, sign up with BB Grunt, Shaft, Schlime-heider, Berner von Twuck or SU Distress right away. They need lots of folks like YOU.

Sonny, I implore ya, please READ 'Sweatshops on Wheels: Winners and Losers in Trucking Deregulation', written by Michael H. Belzer. It's also available on Amazon. Then go to college and spend your life in a more humane and financially rewarding profession, because you deserve better than what the dirty dealers in the trucking circus will throw your way. And we'll have one less broken-down, bitter and ticked-off trucker to deal with 20 years from now. Make thinking people everywhere proud and do the right thing, Sonny.