When is Trucker Day celebrated?

Modern romance of the big road is at allnot robbers from a fairy tale. Real knights of the trails, living on the road, who know every path and road on the map of the country, are, of course, they, truckers. They change a quiet, stable life with work from dawn to dusk on a nervous, severed profession from the family and home. And they also celebrate their professional holiday separately from the rest of the drivers.

When is Trucker Day in Russia?

Naturally, like all those who are driving, these peoplecelebrate the world famous celebration - Motorist Day. This date is floating and usually falls on the last Sunday in October. At least in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine this holiday is officially celebrated this way.

But taking into account what cars drivemotorists who transport goods over long distances, the difficulties and dangers they face on the way, the professional holiday The day of the trucker is noted separately. It is celebrated on the last Sunday of the summer. So, Day of the trucker-2013 fell on August 31 and completed a series of summer holidays last year.

Important note on this issue

It is believed that representatives of this specialtyalmost never are at home. They jump from flight to flight, sometimes they do not see their family for months and therefore are more attached to their fellow workers. But in their ranks you can meet a real brotherhood. Unlike other drivers who sometimes behave towards each other as the worst enemies, mutual assistance, friendship and affability towards "their own" flourish in the community of these motorists.

And in Day of the trucker it is visible to the unarmedthe eye. No matter how far the driver is from the house, he will find support from fellow workers in the city, or even simply on the road, and will receive congratulations from them, and, what's too bad, they will throw a glass or two with them at the transition for their hard work and for a good, warm road.

A bit about the knights themselves trails - truckers

Generally, truck drivers are divided into tworather large groups - some of them work for themselves, acting as private entrepreneurs. Others work in the state of a particular company that provides transportation services. But regardless of status, they are united by their passionate love for travel, the road and their car. And she for such driver - and companion, and assistant, and home native. They often care for their cars much better than for cars, which can travel around the city in their spare time. And in Day of the trucker to the four-wheeled friends drivers wish not less, than each other.

Well, outside the community of long-distance driversroutes, which, by the way, sociologists singled out into a separate subculture, how is the Day of a trucker celebrated? Among people far from this profession, very few people know at all about this holiday. About him reported except that the broadcasts of "Radio Chanson" or "Road Radio" - the favorite radio stations of these romantics of great roads.