Monday, August 26, 2013

Frum Truckers

I was wondering why is it that frummies do not drive trucks for parnosa. There are many advantages to being a frum truck driver. 

First, you have your own hours, so there are no problems with shabbos and holidays. You can leave on a trip anytime you want or can. For example if you were to usually leave at 7 am, on Rosh Hodesh you would leave a bit later. Or if there was a bris in shul and you knew this particular family loved to go all out with hot breakfast and whitefish and a million year old scotch, you would make sure to be home that morning.

Second, on your music medium of choice you could play many shiurim while driving. Listening to shiurim is akin to learning, thus frum truck drivers would be considered both full time learners and earners at the same time. Imagine the shidduch potential for your daughter entering the parsha. Not only is her father a full-time-learner, but he also has enough gelt to support her. 

Third, no formal education is required to be a truck driver. Imagine a life with no need to go to college and take up education loans. Imagine, all those wasted hours of secular studies in Yeshivah coming to fruition. Imagine being able to say I-told-you-so to all of your goishe (because they had a TV hidden in a basement) friends who insisted that secular studies are necessary for parnosa. All you need to do is buy a truck (which you could obtain with kallah money from you father-in-law) and take a few truck driving lessons. 

Fourth, when it becomes a trend (and you know it will because Jews are known to be following others' career paths without regard to practicalities) and many become truck drivers, it would create a need for kosher inns/drive throughs, with road side minyans all over the country, thus transforming America into the nostalgic eastern Europe of yesteryear. Instead of being a peddler (wandering Jew), Orthodox Jews in America would become truckers (still wandering Jews). Imagine a world where instead of using CBs to swap war stories, truckers would be using it to discuss Kodesh matters.  

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