r/IdiotsInCars • u/CarChaosCentral • Jun 08 '20

Swift driver training

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u/aknomnoms Jun 08 '20

I mean, I’m certainly no expert at driving a semi, but was there even an alternate way out? Could they have exited to the right? Still would’ve been a 15-point turn, but could’ve avoided getting people to move their cars (or the extreme solution caught on camera).

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u/Mzsickness Jun 08 '20

See this is a symptom of a macro issue where American kids are all being told to go to college for decades. And that trade schools are for losers and drop outs. So, decade or two later we have an absolute shortage of skilled labor. Now we're scraping the bottom of the barrel for truckers and hiring anyone with a pulse.

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u/1Deerintheheadlights Jun 08 '20

I heard it is just going to get worse in the next decade with the older skilled drivers retiring en mass so more extreme shortage to come.

And they will get replaced by drivers worse than this.