Now That The Soviets Have Invaded Ukraine...

I'm from Scranton and my grandfather & great-grandfather were coalminers there and we are now treated similarly. I think I'd feel just as much at home in a foreign country as my hometown about now.

Andrey, did you come from one of those places? Please give us some basic description of what life is like in those places. What it like to be a truck driver there.

Bruce, I visited these places many years ago. Most of what I know comes from my relatives who live there. I don't want to move this thread away from our general topic, so I'll answer very briefly: Donetsk and Lugansk is a coal mining region. It does have universities and theaters, but still the majority of its population is treated by Ukrainian authorities as dumb and retarded. In 2014 people claimed independence, pretty much like Americans did in 1776. Ukraine called them separatists and declared war. Since then people of this region have been fighting for freedom. Unfortunately, I cannot say anything about truck driving there - I've never driven anything bigger than a minivan before I came to America twenty years ago.

LOL! Go for it, bud. Make sure it's somewhere north in Siberia. I hear Russia is beautiful up there.

I'm from Scranton and my grandfather & great-grandfather were coalminers there and we are now treated similarly. I think I'd feel just as much at home in a foreign country as my hometown about now.

Andrey, did you come from one of those places? Please give us some basic description of what life is like in those places. What it like to be a truck driver there.

Bruce, I visited these places many years ago. Most of what I know comes from my relatives who live there. I don't want to move this thread away from our general topic, so I'll answer very briefly: Donetsk and Lugansk is a coal mining region. It does have universities and theaters, but still the majority of its population is treated by Ukrainian authorities as dumb and retarded. In 2014 people claimed independence, pretty much like Americans did in 1776. Ukraine called them separatists and declared war. Since then people of this region have been fighting for freedom. Unfortunately, I cannot say anything about truck driving there - I've never driven anything bigger than a minivan before I came to America twenty years ago.

I'm thinking of expatriating to Russia but all I really know is truck driving. What do you think my prospects would be as an American?

The Soviets are not now, nor have they ever been, a friend to these United States of America. Hate to be a downer.

This is very far from truth. Both nations fought against their common Nazi enemy during WWII. I agree, it was not for long, but nonetheless it was, and at that short time they were like brothers. My late grandfather told me about that.

Paul, why move there? That sounds crazy to me , unless you have a love interest there. In that case, it sounds even crazier

Truck driving there? I would have serious doubts that you could get a job.

They might hire you to drive a tank, Paul. Could this be Todd, revisited, BK?

Just .. me.

~ Anne ~

My country is no longer my nation and my former fellow countrymen/women providing derision for my inquiring about leaving only accelerates this thinking.

I'm from Scranton and my grandfather & great-grandfather were coalminers there and we are now treated similarly. I think I'd feel just as much at home in a foreign country as my hometown about now.

Andrey, did you come from one of those places? Please give us some basic description of what life is like in those places. What it like to be a truck driver there.

Bruce, I visited these places many years ago. Most of what I know comes from my relatives who live there. I don't want to move this thread away from our general topic, so I'll answer very briefly: Donetsk and Lugansk is a coal mining region. It does have universities and theaters, but still the majority of its population is treated by Ukrainian authorities as dumb and retarded. In 2014 people claimed independence, pretty much like Americans did in 1776. Ukraine called them separatists and declared war. Since then people of this region have been fighting for freedom. Unfortunately, I cannot say anything about truck driving there - I've never driven anything bigger than a minivan before I came to America twenty years ago.

LOL! Go for it, bud. Make sure it's somewhere north in Siberia. I hear Russia is beautiful up there.

My country is no longer my nation and my former fellow countrymen/women providing derision for my inquiring about leaving only accelerates this thinking.

LOL! Go for it, bud. Make sure it's somewhere north in Siberia. I hear Russia is beautiful up there.

What exactly do YOU CALL your home country, Paul ?!?!?

The coalminers WERE the backbone OF this nation, last I checked.

Your POSTS are derisive. How can we, on Trucking Truth, HELP you?!?

~ Anne ~

I'll bring my galoshes and slide bread bags over my socks to keep my feet dry.

I'm from Scranton and my grandfather & great-grandfather were coalminers there and we are now treated similarly. I think I'd feel just as much at home in a foreign country as my hometown about now.

Andrey, did you come from one of those places? Please give us some basic description of what life is like in those places. What it like to be a truck driver there.

Bruce, I visited these places many years ago. Most of what I know comes from my relatives who live there. I don't want to move this thread away from our general topic, so I'll answer very briefly: Donetsk and Lugansk is a coal mining region. It does have universities and theaters, but still the majority of its population is treated by Ukrainian authorities as dumb and retarded. In 2014 people claimed independence, pretty much like Americans did in 1776. Ukraine called them separatists and declared war. Since then people of this region have been fighting for freedom. Unfortunately, I cannot say anything about truck driving there - I've never driven anything bigger than a minivan before I came to America twenty years ago.

LOL! Go for it, bud. Make sure it's somewhere north in Siberia. I hear Russia is beautiful up there.

"What exactly do YOU CALL your home country, Paul ?!?!? The coalminers WERE the backbone OF this nation, last I checked. Your POSTS are derisive. How can we, on Trucking Truth, HELP you?" The backbone is leaving. We don't require assistance. Have a nice day.

The backbone is leaving. We don't require assistance. Have a nice day.

This is more in reply to the original post;

I agree our industry could face real threats, because assets may have been able to be staged within our own borders. By assets, I am speaking mostly in terms of personnel. Thanks to the open border policies of some and the weak responses from others. Though, isn't it possible the threats to the trucking industry will have more to do with theft/petty crime and/or infrastructure (i.e. fuel shortages, slowing production/shipping/buying)? I posit this because, placement of enemy assets would require extensive coordination and then keeping them quiet about their mission until launch. Certainly possible, but on a large enough scale to equal what is going on over there seems a tremendous amount of planning and resources.

Speaking of "over there;" doesn't it seem odd that one of the most (supposedly) well-trained, well-equipped militaries in the entire world, had a 40 mile long convoy of tanks and troop carriers, just sit? Even more odd, that NOBODY attempted to isolate said convoy or take significant action against them? I'm no military strategist, but if the reports were true, here's a sitting duck and nobody is hunting? Then there's the failed attempts to assassinate a leader. Is it possible these are indications the aggressor's plans and assets are not as high-caliber we've been led to believe?

And what of our, seeming, lack of assistance? We signed an agreement to protect against this very thing and now, nothing. If we (as a nation) aren't willing to stand by our word when an unprovoked attack is made, who in our government (or the world) will stand by us when Evil comes to us?

Would probably have to be US, like the movie "Red Dawn" lol ya KNOW, we can't count on the US government for backbone ,under the current powers "that cant be"