# Why are truckdrivers such assholes?

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**Created:** [September 19, 2021, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-truckdrivers-such-assholes/950922 "2021-09-19T11:38:55Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 30, 2021, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-truckdrivers-such-assholes/950922/149 "2021-09-30T20:32:56Z")

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Whatever the reason, and assuming they really are assholes, there are fewer and fewer of them, it seems.

> [@England's catastrophic loss of truck (lorry) drivers---why this week?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/englands-catastrophic-loss-of-truck-lorry-drivers-why-this-week/951672):
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> England is on the verge of collapse… Toilet paper is gone, fuel supplies hard to find, and mass starvation about to begin. Well, that’s the way some news sites are reporting it. More realistically, it seems that a few stories created a bit of a stir, which led to panic buying , which created the current shortages. But underlying it all is a real problem: a massive shortage of drivers.— hundreds of thousands of professional drivers. My question is in the thread title: Why is this happening…

So the problem is about to solve itself.

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