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Truck Drivers' Values: what causes his Admiration and Indignation?

The study aims at analyzing which core values are present in representations of themselves for truck drivers. Seventeen truck drivers from a freight transportation company participated in the survey. A semi-structured interview script was used and the responses were analyzed and categorized according to content analysis techniques. The results showed that values are related to ethics regarding the categories of the self as individual and as drivers, but not as company. Thus, one concluded that there is the need to create opportunities favoring personal and professional "development", but it is also left to the company to propose cooperative and democratic actions for this development be really effective.


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