It's amazing how just one comment by a single person got this group into an
uproar. I really think that the public in general has a romance with the
life of the trucker brought on by the movie and media hype. Truckers are
just ordinary people who do an thankless job of moving just about everything
there is in North America to and from wholesalers to retailers. Over the
years the average trucker's education level has gone from grade school drop
outs to men and women holding degrees of various ranges of education. Over
the years I've come to know a rather large group of people from a very large
slice of various levels of education, similar to that of most truckers. I
hold two degrees and a commercial Radio Telephone license, but for some
reason I ended up returning to "trucking" all the time. And all the trucks
I've driven, over 1 million miles, I've always had my amateur radio(s) and a
CB. Each had it's own nicessity and each one had it's own language. On one
radio I as a respected amateur radio operator who drove truck, on the other
I was just another trucker looking for a traffic report.
Oh, for those who are of the illusion that truckers are the cause of all the
terrible accident on the highways, well the only person your fooling is
yourself. To get the facts do a little research and you will find that four
wheeled vehicles cause more accidents than any other vehicle. Trucks seem to
fall into the same catigory as motorcycles do in the public's perseption of
the cause of accidents. After you have done your research you will find that
both trucks and motorcycles end of up being a very low percentage of the
cause of accidents. The only thing the public sees is that when a truck gets
into a bad accident it is very bad and devestating distruction. But
statistics show there are fewer truck accidents than four wheeled vehicles
and there are also far fewer accidents that are caused by trucks entirely.
But, this is just this over educated truckers opinion.

73 de ve7agw, Al