Do you have a politically incorrect job? [View All]

[Droopy]

I do. First off I'm a trucker. The truck that I drive gets 6.5 mpg and that's considered good. Then you have all of the negative stereotypes about truckers that a lot of people buy into. Like we're all speed freaks in more ways than one. This feeds into the political incorrectness of the job. There was an idea floated in California not too long ago to prohibit 18 wheelers in southern California. They hate trucks in California. This idea would have all 18 wheelers drop their freight at warehouses in western Arizona. The freight would then be picked up by smaller straight trucks and moved into southern California that way. Never mind that it would take three times as many vehicles getting around 10 mpg to move the same freight. You do the math.

Next, and this is probably going to be more damaging to my reputation here on DU than being a trucker, I haul transmissions that go to a GM assembly plant. What kind of vehicles do you think those transmissions go into? If you guessed SUVs then you are correct. They make the Chevy Trailblazer and the GMC Envoy where I deliver my freight.

So there you have it. Is there anyone who has a more politically incorrect job than me?