Drivers Side

Ever Imagined the life of a truck driver ;
We all curse trucks as a Devil of the highways the death crawlers connecting with some incidents of our own lives or of some one in the neighbourhood where one such dare devil truck killed some life or did some fiery accident. Here I wont be writing about the stories instead i am going to write something about the other side.
Life of a Truck Driver.

A lonely highway with overloaded truck, untimely food, paucity of sleep, distance from family, Lower wages , Pressure for running load in time a simple way to explain life of Indian Truck Driver.

Indian Trucks design wise have been the same since world war 2, no respective change same heated compartment with grunting sound of diesel engine roaring with every shift in gears , same wooden hard seats and state of the art music player which reminds of old recorders . As cities growing faster the need to flushing goods from one place to others and buttressing supplier have increased many a times. Today the transport companies have major task in there hand every time they get orders ; to give most prompt service this tends the drivers to stay awake all night and drive and the result of this is on their health . To curb sleep they eat opium which keeps them awake for hours and it is been observed 95% of the truck driver consume opium and all addict of bidi/ cigarettes and alcohol.The same figure goes for the drivers having multiple partners. These drivers take refute there irritation and stress by sexually gratifying themselves from the sources roadside with women , men and some times with the third sex also signifying the state of there mental peace which any one can figure out is at the lowest. Whats more there are unending sagas highway loot, police harassment and official confiscating there permits, goods etc.

Here all this living soul is always on the brim of getting killed by its own daemons some times sleep some times road or some natural calamity . The families of these drivers suffer the same , Children don't have father to look for months , wives have there unending wait for their husbands but when they come home they bring in AIDS.

AIDS /HIV/Hepatitis like thousands of evils chase these drivers all the time who knows next turn when they meet up with some prostitute they will be gifted with it. Te tendency of not to use condoms is most in these drivers as they consider that if they pay they should get the way they wanted and henceforth the HIV virus is travelling places and no doubt within 8 years our country will have 20 million AIDS patient.the lifestyle of these souls is so gruesome that they don't even think of there enemies to join this profession , wages are low , life is dull , love is lost. These lives are worse then animals . It is believed that truck drivers in India soliciting commercial sex work while on the road are spreading HIV throughout their routes. Around 70 percent of India's population lives in rural areas once thought to be relatively immune to the epidemic. So there is another evil to fight for .

from the drivers side this life is no less than death .