• auzy1@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    This is particularly an issue here in Australia.

    Our most vocal racist community is our Truckie community. They blame everyone for everything except themselves. They even argue that normal drivers shouldn’t pull over for sleep and that it’s killing Truckies (less spots for them to stop). It’s always about them…

    And they always love to emphasise how important and irresplacable they are, despite the fact it’s one of Australia’s lowest skilled jobs.

    When fuel prices went up, many of them were demanding they strike and block all the roads because many signed bad/risky contracts they didn’t want to blame themselves for

    Not all of them, but the problem is so bad a newspaper even recently published how toxic they were

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      22 hours ago

      In the US, every time I see any video of a truck crash, there are tons of racist comments about the driver of the truck, who can’t even be seen in most of the videos.

      Because, as everyone knows, no white guy has ever caused a truck crash. Ever.

      I assume the issue here is that they sit around all day listening to right wing radio.

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        16 hours ago

        Yep… Here in Australia, they call them all “Raj”.

        Not all of them, but, at least on Facebook, they seem to make us look bad internationally

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          12 hours ago

          Yeah, here, I see comments about their footwear or possibly wearing a turban. Oh and none of them can speak English. In fairness, English proficiency is a requirement to get a CDL (commercial driver’s license), and somehow some states did issue CDLs to people who were not proficient in English…but I seriously doubt it’s more than a tiny percentage of drivers that don’t meet the standard.