::009:: the problem with trucking is the government.... in an effort to make the industry safer, rules and regulations have been established that tend to remove experienced older drivers (for health reasons). a driving job is a desk job on wheels, after 20,30 years sitting there your not going to be all that healthy... DOT physicals are harder to pass and getting harder... the rules allow employers to work a driver up to 15 hours a day with 8 hours off between shifts, how can any one maintain good health habits on a schedule as this, you cant... with 38 years of experience in class 8 trucks (accident free) I know a little bit about the job...a young driver thinks he knows , but what ever the vehicle that is being operated by a new in experienced operator there are going to be problems with that young operator... the secret to driving safely these larger heavy dangerous vehicles is again experience.... it takes 5 years at least before (this is my opinion)a new driver starts to come into his professional zone of ability . its about reading traffic, knowing what others might do before they do it, looking ahead not just in distance , but in knowledge that only experience can give him... and new guys don't have it..... I tell everyone I care about to stay away from trucks . don't ride by them anything can happen at any time. ever see one blow a tire , will ruin your day in a second... they have a hard and lonely job, they do the best they can, they(young ones at least) just are not there yet...and the good ones are greeters at walmart now...they built a toll road in Austin texas that goes around the town. the purpose of the toll was to get traffic off I-35 , mainly the big trucks... so now every town that touches the toll road has their police force pulling trucks over for inspection( trying to keep us safe)....toll road cost a lot to use, and now the police are writing tickets...so what is the problem with that, we all want safe vehicles on our roads...trucks are staying on I-35, its free...I-35 is no better than it ever was...drive down the toll get a ticket for a safety violation and pay toll, or drive I-35 get a ticket and not pay toll , do the math...as an owner your going to make your drivers take the free route... government tries but they make things worse at times.. in Austin they are trying to figure out why trucks will not use the toll......that driver was not trying to get you, he was operating at his experience level, you can thank the DOT for that....