The above highlighted statement is so OTT I can’t work out whether you’re actually being serious, or simply trolling.
I don’t detect any “defensive fury” in the post you’ve quoted. The issue I have with your posts is that they paint an unrealistically negative picture, and purport to speak “for the vast majority”.
Quite the opposite! As a driver you do not speak for me, and your views are not reflective of the vast majority of people I have encountered in the grade.
Shift work has its downsides, and can be incredibly tough at times, but also has many positives. It’s telling that most people I’ve met in this industry, and indeed many contributors to this thread, have said wouldn’t go back to the kind of work they were doing before (and trust me when you’ve pulled all nighters in a corporate law sweatshop - and spent three days at work without sleeping during a closing - you start to see the value of a decently paid job with a 35 hour, 4 day week roster, albeit with some early starts and late finishes, and an absence of corporate BS).
The worst thing about this industry by far is the institutionalised bad apples in the messroom who drag everyone else down by moaning like hell about the downsides of the job (which nobody on here is denying), yet are happy enough to stick around for the pay, the time off, and the decent benefits.
If you really hated your job as much as you claimed, you’d simply leave! Or maybe you are one of those whose only doing it for the money?!