I have been blessed to have met hundreds of truck drivers.
I truly believe they are a special breed.
Sure, like any other group there are certainly ones that are still a bit wayward and perhaps do not make all the right decisions but overall they are a group of people that are independent and giving.
They enjoy, I mean really enjoy, helping others. I can mostly only speak for the driver in the domestic household goods industry where I have worked for 26 years.
Their reward at the end of a very long and hard day is to look into the faces of the family they just moved and see relief and appreciation.
The ability to walk into someones house at one of their most stressful times in their lives and take away all of their prize possessions and wrap them up, load them on a trailer and repeat the whole performance at their new home hundreds or thousands of miles away and to see that smile at the end is pretty awesome.
It it truly a art and a talent to be able to even load those trailers the way they do. Fitting each piece in the trailer like a giant jigsaw puzzle so that they fit just right and nothing moves and they all protected while they travel the highways is a profession that I admire each time I look in the back of a trailer.
Being able to do all that while having all their proper papers signed and explained, including all of their logs in case they stopped on the road is ridiculous. Keep in mind they do this every day, every week and month to month. Meet a new family that have to move or are retiring and trust them with all that have earned trough the years.
Truck drivers in the household good industry are giving people. They help others for the sake of helping others, the way it use to be years ago when neighbors helped each other.
I can not tell you all the times that a driver has told me yes to helping in situations that they know that may not get paid for but they said they would be happy to help.
GOD BLESS OUR DRIVERS
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