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Oddly the truckers who are paid a salary are Armed forces. I would be interested in knowing how the economics of army logistics compares to commercial - and if

• Nikbul 5y ago
  Are you talking about actually military MOS truck drivers, or the contractors? If actual MOS-it will depend where it located, but generally military work is 24\7 work without any side income. Spend week in the field with no shower? Work a year in a war zone? Driver fuel if the middle of nowhere and freeze your ass while waiting for special tow truck because no adequate heating in the cab? If you like those-you welcome to join.
• UncleEntity 5y ago
  Well, I was a truck driver during the last Iraq invasion hauling fuel for the 3rd ID. Got like 9 hours of sleep the first week of the war. Every single truck in the company had “red line” issues but if would run we ran it, we had one where the whole electrical harness caught on fire that couldn’t be shut down and we ran that too. Had to “reallocate” parts from other units who were stupid enough to leave their equipment unguarded. And random firefights, shit blowing up, bases getting overrun around us all the time. Forgot what an E-5 made in ‘03, a lot less than my civilian truck driver job at the time.
  • warmwaffles 5y ago
    This sounds like a really interesting story.
  • kilroy123 5y ago
    So would you say this quote is true? "All militaries suck, the one that sucks the least wins."