Life as a truck driver
Dec. 28th, 2007 10:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
paserbypSitting high in what he calls his "condo cab" - equipped with bunk beds, a laptop, flat-screen television, satellite radio and DVDs - long-distance trucker Ted Gennick gets a bird's-eye view of the road...
About 75,000 more big trucks hit the road every year. The Federal Highway Administration projects that freight moved by trucks on U.S. highways will increase from 10.4 billion tons in 1998 to 18.1 billion tons in 2020.
Gennick, 41, a commercial driver who logs about 140,000 miles a year, agrees there's a problem. He just thinks the current efforts are doomed to fail. He's got ample expertise. A trucker since he walked away from an accounting job in 1996, Gennick is on the road about 22 days each month. He drives coast-to-coast and says he has never been in a wreck or had a moving violation...
Gennick says he pays more than $6,000 a year in fuel taxes, $3,000 in licensing and heavy vehicle use taxes and $2,200 in federal excise tax...
USA TODAY, Thursday, December 27, 2007
About 75,000 more big trucks hit the road every year. The Federal Highway Administration projects that freight moved by trucks on U.S. highways will increase from 10.4 billion tons in 1998 to 18.1 billion tons in 2020.
Gennick, 41, a commercial driver who logs about 140,000 miles a year, agrees there's a problem. He just thinks the current efforts are doomed to fail. He's got ample expertise. A trucker since he walked away from an accounting job in 1996, Gennick is on the road about 22 days each month. He drives coast-to-coast and says he has never been in a wreck or had a moving violation...
Gennick says he pays more than $6,000 a year in fuel taxes, $3,000 in licensing and heavy vehicle use taxes and $2,200 in federal excise tax...
USA TODAY, Thursday, December 27, 2007
