Truckers Message for You: Chill Out, Stop Texting, and Have Respect.

'After a May 22 Times article about the plight of America’s long-haul truckers elicited a great deal of interest, we asked truck drivers what they would say to drivers of four-wheeled vehicles if they got the chance.

Responses came in by the — well, by the hundreds, let’s just say, with practical advice about highway safety, fervent pleas to put down those smartphones and requests to be treated with dignity.

Truckers want to be seen (even if they are unseen, high up in their cabs) as fellow human beings, toiling long hours, who are conscientious and careful and want, above all, to get home safe to their loved ones.

Here is a sampling of their responses, edited and condensed. Photographs submitted by truck drivers accompany the article.'

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/05/us/trucking-jobs.html?