Big Ole True Facts Brother on that 💯. Keep it between the lines, driver 🙏🏿🙏
2 weeks ago | 4
How many Unionized trucking companies are left compared to 1980? Deregulation forever changed the industry and forced rates charged to customers and pay scales lower.
2 weeks ago | 8
Yes sir, you are correct, and trucking is not middle class anymore, it is now considered the working class with the likes of people working at Mickey D's.
2 weeks ago | 13
Gonna stay like that until 👿freezes over, lobbyists be throwing money at the powers that be to not change jack 💩about this industry, only in America you can work dang near 70hrs in a week and not get paid overti
2 weeks ago | 5
That's only half the issue. The other reason is the US dollar has lost most of its value.
2 weeks ago (edited) | 6
Facts: it's almost better to be a warehouse worker, less risk, less responsibility, almost equal pay
2 weeks ago | 6
So true. And it's NOT gonna get better no time soon unless the drivers just walk off the jobs and call for a MAJOR shutdown nationwide, and things will change a full 360°
2 weeks ago | 0
Shiddd I work for the usps and took home less than 45k. I’m tired of these jobs they suck.
2 weeks ago | 1
Kaboom!;You Nailed it!! Pretty sad I know. Crying shame I'm 52 My life and prior they been ripping us off entire time
2 weeks ago | 0
well said. proving inflation is a crime. because the issuers of the money are not even backing currency by gold. and their currency value has not declined at same rate as the wages. your salary cut in half. but dollar not half as valuable as it was few decades ago.
2 weeks ago | 1
Nobody has to drive a truck. If they are not paying you what you want...get out of the industry.
2 weeks ago | 9
The system is sending the money to the people that don't work. Welcome to greed and usury.
2 weeks ago | 1
If your numbers are correct- the system is not broken. It is operating exactly as designed. Capitalism generates wealth to the people at the top usually business owners the more overhead/cost they can squeeze out of their business model the more wealth they get to keep. Transportation/truckers/owner operators are an expense and owners will continually look for ways to lower that expense. What you see now foreign drivers, the push for self driving trucks, and stagnant rates due to low barrier of entry and thus excess capacity is the system at work.
2 weeks ago | 5
That’s why the loads get hijacked. $100,000 in one night is probably a rush for those guys.
2 weeks ago | 0
Chasing Andrew Jackson
Back in 1980, the average trucker pulled in around $39,000 a year—that’s the same as $147,000 in today’s dollars. Fast forward to now, and most drivers are making barely half that, averaging $72,000. In just five decades, the pay has been gutted while the workload hasn’t changed. The industry has squeezed wages, stripped away respect, and left drivers carrying the same burden for far less. If that’s not proof the system is broken, I don’t know what is.
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