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1. Well, yeah, companies could pay them better & stop treating truckers like dirt.

Fri Mar 1, 2019, 05:04 PM

Mar 2019

Forcing them to be independent contractors who have to carry all the risk, for example.

Slave-driving them so that they hardly see their families.

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Cheap Prices Will Be the Latest Casualty of the Trucker Shortage [View all] Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 2019 OP

Well, yeah, companies could pay them better & stop treating truckers like dirt. Bernardo de La Paz Mar 2019 #1

Yes and they often have to pay for exboyfil Mar 2019 #5

You are 100% correct...it won't last... Moostache Mar 2019 #10

don't count on plumbers and electricians to be ok Hermit-The-Prog Mar 2019 #17

So much this. susanna Mar 2019 #19

This is the info. Corgigal Mar 2019 #6

Time to go back to the railroads SoCalNative Mar 2019 #2

Excellent Point gainesvillenole Mar 2019 #14

It is only a matter of time before they go driverless genxlib Mar 2019 #9

That's my guess safeinOhio Mar 2019 #13

Could rail be used (again) to take up some of the slack? theophilus Mar 2019 #12

Having been an OTR driver for 30 years..... A HERETIC I AM Mar 2019 #15

Based on this quote, it isn't because of the pay MichMan Mar 2019 #16

I think Darren Tristano is full of shit TexasBushwhacker Mar 2019 #18

It never is, to CEOs. WhiskeyGrinder Mar 2019 #21

The trucking industry started going in the tank bluecollar2 Mar 2019 #23