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How come you go into a truck stop bathrooms and dudes are grunting and exhaling loudly while they loudly fart and shit? Is this alpha shitting? I dont like this.
They probably have to eat convenience food and hold their shits in for hours, plus they aren't exercising while they drive.
The poor bastards probably have a terrible time shitting.
Same reason you're in there - hairy, gay trucker sex. The grunting and anal queefing is pretty normal for your average truck stop bathroom.
Come to the UK. We're so desperate for truckers we'll tolerate just about anything.
Lol we're in competition!! What's the reason for it in the US? We Brexited and - predictably - a mass exodus of overseas workers ensued. Then the 'rona came along and took up much of the time and energy we might have spent sorting it out.
If the international workforce boxed clever, they could club together and start making demands for pay rises and better working conditions and appeal to the UN or the WHO for backing.
A British person on discord said he saw a sign in the UK saying "truckers needed started salary: $80,000 USD starting pay" so they are raising the wages to entice them. According to him thats a good wage there.
I find that figure highly implausible. I just did a search for average HGV (Heavy Goods Vehicle) driver pay, and what appears to be a credible site said the average is £32,500. That's roughly US $44,000.
I'm pretty sure the median wage in the UK is about that much, so it's not particularly well-paid work.
And, yeah, I'm sure there could be a few British HGV drivers who are getting the equivalent of $80,000 per annum, but I find it highly unlikely they are recently licenced drivers operating ordinary articulated lorries.
Pay for HGV drivers has been stagnant for years now. I read one guy who said that his father-in-law was an HGV driver in the nineties, and his take-home pay then was almost exactly what he's receiving now for his 56 hour working week.
But the problem isn't just unimpressive pay for work that can be challenging and stressful. Because of the shortage of drivers, there's been a lot of coverage in the media about what life is actually like for HGV drivers. By all accounts, it's pretty seriously crap, and that's a large part of the reason why few people want to do the job.
For one thing, there are parts of Britain where the roads are often very congested, and the proportion of utterly stupid dickheads in cars is very high. Also, truckers who travel across the English Channel into continental Europe often mention how, when they're in places like France and Germany, they feel like they're doing a valued job, since truckers have special rest areas, restaurants, and toilet and shower facilities. But in the UK, they often have no option but to live on shitty fast food eaten in the cab, park up by the side of the road overnight (where they just might be robbed or their vehicle damaged), piss in a bottle, crap in a bag, clean up with baby wipes.
Basically, truckers in Britain just get no respect, either from the vast majority of employers, the government or the general public.
Goods transport has long been a cutthroat industry with incredible pressure from huge companies on smaller transport companies to reduce contract costs to the absolute minimum. That worked in the short term, but those chickens are finally coming home to roost.
I messaged him asked him again about it. And he sent me these links. He contracts with some company for work and saw these.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/15996194/lorry-drivers-plumbers-earn-money-salary/
https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/hgv-driver-shortage-how-you-21157855
It's such a good wage I quit college to go to trucking school. 90,000$ a year, paid weekly. Seems like a square deal to me.
Plus I dont think an office job suits me. Listening to podcasts for 14 hours on the other hand? Sounds a hell of alot more enjoyable.
UPS is a good company to be a driver. If you start as a cover driver its starting at 33 an hour. After 4 years you go to 40 an hour (wages adjusted every year too for inflation)
But you can make double that doing sleeper team runs or mileage. If you do sleeper team runs you can literally make as much as some doctors. Im talking around 250k a year and they still cant find enough people to do it!
FedEX is ok too but you have to pay insurance.
I imagine that sitting in the same position for eight hours at a stretch can't do anything good for the bowel health of truckers. Humans didn't evolve to deal well with being motionless for so long, and moving around does play some role in the movement of food through the gut.
From what I understand, the diet of most long-distance truckers is pretty bad, and that can't help either.
Also, if you spend your entire working day on your own, there's a tendency to let your standards slip. I can see how cutting loose with a huge fart can become just a mildly diverting moment in a very boring day, and that sort of thing can easily become a habit.
They could be having sex with another dude in their stall while they are taking a dump
One time I went into a place where this guy let out the longest, loudest fart I have ever heard while he was taking a shit. I thought his asshole exploded or something. Then the smell of his shit was soo fucking bad the other guys in there at the urinals were looking at each other & holding their breath or gagging and hurried to get out. I don't know what that guy was eating or what his problem was but he was definitely not feeling well. I have never heard or smelled anything quite like that in my life.