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good read, i can totally relate on some levels, i used to work at this company which exclusively helped Sikh cdl holders with their tickets and fuel card discou

good read, i can totally relate on some levels, i used to work at this company which exclusively helped Sikh cdl holders with their tickets and fuel card discounts. Most of them are genuinely living the american dream. Godspeed....Wonder how automation, ai, and self-driving is going to impact this field? .....hopefully everyone has a plan-b...Also i'm curious to find out how electronic logbooks have affected them so far ?

Mountain_Skies 7y ago
Years ago I saw statistics for the turnover rate of truck drivers and it was quite high. Seems like there are a small number of drivers who make it a career but most move on to other things after a few years. Haven't seen this come up during discussions about drivers being replaced by autonomous vehicles but it seems rather important. Wonder if turn over numbers are very different for Sikhs.
- dhaalsiim 7y ago
  while i was working for this xyz CDL marketing company, i did not come across any stats, but i saw fathers passing down the biz to their sons, and/or family members working all together to run their own trucking biz each playing various roles and running it quite efficiently. Since they do not have college degrees they are locked in and thus do successfully make a career of it, additionally some of them don't drink and have good driving records. Also the sikh community inherently feels persecuted wherever they go due to their rigid beliefs, unfortunately this is also true in their homeland-India, but which in turn makes them help each other out even more, their community is well-organized and close-knit. There truly was a constant in-flux of new younger drivers who had plans of a long career. Also, climate change/global warming was also another albatross around their necks...farming and produce are significantly affected each year due to floods an/or droughts
- a3n 7y ago
  According to some of these articles it's been as high as 130%. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=trucker+turnover&t=fpas&ia=web https://duckduckgo.com/?q=trucker+turnover&t=fpas&ia=web
  - lucasmullens 7y ago
    Much of it seems to be truckers just switching companies
  - zakember 7y ago
    Unrelated but I'm really glad to see someone use duckduckgo in the wild
    - a3n 7y ago
      It's the only way to fly.

Mountain_Skies 7y ago

Years ago I saw statistics for the turnover rate of truck drivers and it was quite high. Seems like there are a small number of drivers who make it a career but most move on to other things after a few years. Haven't seen this come up during discussions about drivers being replaced by autonomous vehicles but it seems rather important. Wonder if turn over numbers are very different for Sikhs.

dhaalsiim 7y ago
while i was working for this xyz CDL marketing company, i did not come across any stats, but i saw fathers passing down the biz to their sons, and/or family members working all together to run their own trucking biz each playing various roles and running it quite efficiently. Since they do not have college degrees they are locked in and thus do successfully make a career of it, additionally some of them don't drink and have good driving records. Also the sikh community inherently feels persecuted wherever they go due to their rigid beliefs, unfortunately this is also true in their homeland-India, but which in turn makes them help each other out even more, their community is well-organized and close-knit. There truly was a constant in-flux of new younger drivers who had plans of a long career. Also, climate change/global warming was also another albatross around their necks...farming and produce are significantly affected each year due to floods an/or droughts
a3n 7y ago
According to some of these articles it's been as high as 130%. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=trucker+turnover&t=fpas&ia=web https://duckduckgo.com/?q=trucker+turnover&t=fpas&ia=web
- lucasmullens 7y ago
  Much of it seems to be truckers just switching companies
- zakember 7y ago
  Unrelated but I'm really glad to see someone use duckduckgo in the wild
  - a3n 7y ago
    It's the only way to fly.