The trucker shortage

[baboon]

https://archive.fo/Xbf4R

 

[jetcycles]

After reading the article...I'm confused by the thread title.

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[SQLGeek]

Blind link....I'll pass.

 

[Moonpie]

Trucker watching porn while driving.
Has wreck.
Man killed.

 

[easy rider]

So let me try to understand this thread, down one trucker due to him watching porn has created a trucker shortage?

 

[craigntx]

Houston needs mixer drivers

 

[easy rider]

With the baby boomers retiring it's created a shortage of skilled workers in many fields. It's estimated that there is a shortage of over 200,000 weldors nationwide, the field I am in.

 

[karlac]

Cousin is a machinist and the shop where he works can't find anyone who wants to work. Both he and the owner are facing retirement, but the owner is going to have to shut the shop down despite being so busy they can't keep up with the current demand.

 

[baboon]

With the baby boomers retiring it's created a shortage of skilled workers in many fields. It's estimated that there is a shortage of over 200,000 weldors nationwide, the field I am in.

I hope your eyes last longer then the old welders I know.

 

[Southpaw]

Cousin is a machinist and the shop where he works can't find anyone who wants to work. Both he and the owner are facing retirement, but the owner is going to have to shut the shop down despite being so busy they can't keep up with the current demand.

That's amazing.

 

[Dawico]

Shortage of workers is an issue in every field where working with your hands is required.

 

[easy rider]

I hope your eyes last longer then the old welders I know.

If one uses the proper eye protection while welding (hood with the proper filter lens) and safety glasses while around welding their eyes shouldn't be any worse than others. Age has been harder on my eyes than welding.

 

[easy rider]

That's amazing.

Look at what much of today's schools are teaching and it's not that amazing. Gender studies is not entry level to craftsmanship.

 

[oldag]

So let me try to understand this thread, down one trucker due to him watching porn has created a trucker shortage?

Short by one, anyhow.

 

[baboon]

If one uses the proper eye protection while welding (hood with the proper filter lens) and safety glasses while around welding their eyes shouldn't be any worse than others. Age has been harder on my eyes than welding.

Both the welders I know (old guys) have Macular degeneration & going blind. The montly shot into the eye ball freaks me out.

 

[Mowingmaniac 24/7]

So the shortage of skilled labor is due to:

Ludicrous/Absurdist/ over emphasis of self esteem / helicopter parental garbage of millens?

Legalized dope?

No taste for sweaty work?

Unrealistic expectations entering the work force?

Letting adult kids live at home into perpetuity?

What's your take?

 

[easy rider]

Both the welders I know (old guys) have Macular degeneration & going blind. The montly shot into the eye ball freaks me out.

I'm sure you and they will attribute that to welding, but doctors haven't found a significant rise in eye damage due to welding.

Can you damage your eyes welding? Certainly. In my 44 years of welding my eyes have had significant flash burn about a half dozen times, but that's due to my own negligence mainly and they healed. Macular degeneration is mainly attributed to age.

 

[Moonpie]

So the shortage of skilled labor is due to:

Ludicrous/Absurdist/ over emphasis of self esteem / helicopter parental garbage of millens?

Legalized dope?

No taste for sweaty work?

Unrealistic expectations entering the work force?

Letting adult kids live at home into perpetuity?

What's your take?

I agree with you.
Its a couple of generations of kids being told you're less than pond scum if you work with your hands.
You HAVE to go to college.

Another thing is lower level job wages have been kept at shit levels for 30+yrs because of illegal immigration.
If a kid has a choice of digging ditches or working at a place making coffee with A/C for the same wages, where do you think the kid is going to work?
Way back almost 40yrs ago when I started in industry there were a multitude of craftsmen. Pipefitters, Machinists, millwrights, painters, electricians, instrument techs, plant operators, insulators, etc. We all made about the same wages. About $10-13 an hour. It wasn't great money but it allowed you to have a place to live, a vehicle, even start a family and not have to live in a cardboard box under the bridge.
Here it is almost 40yrs later and most of those jobs are filled by people STILL making $10-13 an hour.
Somebody is making HUGE bucks but it damn sure isn't the working guys.
Who the hell wants to be a hydroblaster for $10 an hour?

 

[1911'S 4 Me]

"Macular degeneration is mainly attributed to age."
And some diseases, especially diabetes. My mother had it. Sometimes I think some of the things I have seen would cause my eyes to go into shock.

 

[oldag]

Macular degeneration is mainly attributed to age.

Yes, that masculine degeneration does seem to mostly affect the young millennials. Pretty severely on the west coast.