Blame game and Comments from ATA?

This is the comment picked up from RoadGHost regarding ATA stance on recent driver turnover,

Again this comment is courtesy of
Roadghost:

There surely is no greater group of corporate welfare bums than the trucking companies. They continually cry to get government to pay for their truck drivers with training and subsidies, and if that doesn’t work they try to import them from foreign countries. It is about time the public money tap was cut off and the scoundrels and liars are force to pay their employees a real living wage AND the corporations who hire companies are force to pay a fair market price.
In order for that to happen, a certain number of superfluous trucking companies will need to go bankrupt, but that is a self-correcting problem. There are too many of them already. Let’s get government subsidies OUT of the transport industry in both the United States and Canada. Let the free market rule.

 

Trying to figure this all out here, and thats why the original message was imported from another comment site. thought this spoke volumes
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Long term, reality of trucking long haul may be in a final phase of itself, minus hotshots,some refer freight,inter terminal to terminal time moves. and specialty over size etc..(i wont name everything)
This was kinda described in detail by a friend and operations mgr @ R & L . They are investing in rail trailers, so is Arkansas Best, etc.. Schneider has mega plans to compete with JB, Swift has a high end commitment as well. R & L guy was saying the costs diff is amazing, and more rail loads you ship, less overall costs passed back to shipper. One estimate is five fold rail increase next 3-4yrs min. Means all you line drivers pining for a city job wont have long, and the rest? Who knows? Maybe intermodal will be the job of choice.
PS: I've stood at the rail yard watching the intermodal fleets being unloaded, it was mind boggling how many trailers just from JB were on that one train,(Swift,UPS,Scneider,Yellow,..etc too) and this was at one tiny inter modal site in south Seattle, the bigger ones were over towards Tacoma and Sumner.