Jerry drove trucks for 60 years, now itâs catching up with him Save Normal text size Advertisement âIn transport, you can have a thousand near misses, and Iâve probably had that many,â says Jerry Brown-Sarre. âBut you donât get second chances, if it goes wrong, youâre dead.â Though he never had a calamitous smash in his 61 years as a transport driver Mr Brown-Sarre, 78, lives with the marks of his long career behind the wheel of big trucks, including a bad hip that forced him into retirement, one of many ailments a new study has found are typical of the industry.