Truck driver shortage, other troubles could push up prices for consumers

The way brokers pay is,,,slowly. And if you have a legitimate complaint it gets even slower. Unless of course you go the quick pay, advance, or god forbid factoring route in which case they keep anywhere from 5-30% of "Your" money.

 

Does brokers tell the driver what the load pays or does the broker pocket extra pay they shouldn't?

 

No, every load run is and individual contract from A to B.Miles aren't even mentioned, its you agree to haul x#lbs. from here to there for so many dollars. All loads are a separate contract.

 

Well said!

I want to point out how these shippers all try to push everybody's fear button by threatening to just pass along 100% of the extra shipping costs. HA! It doesn't workout that easily.

Most of these costs will come directly out of executive benefits and stock options bonuses, or more marble flooring in the corporate office. That's the unspoken truth and what their true fear is for themselves losing their quality of life. While at the same time knowing that extra shipping money the free market forced them to pay, is going in those peasants' pockets! That truth just sets their pompous ### on fire! The problem is these people actually despise the middle class and think workers should worship them. FDR coined the name for this "Economic Royalists", and that describes them well. They have the money and the power, and so they should be worshipped and feared like royalty, is how they think.

Yep, if they tried this "pass it all down the line" idea, their sales volumes would dive and their competitors (if they have not yet formed a co-operative cartel) would swoop in and take their market share.

The only thing these "poor little me" mega-corporation shippers will pass money on to is the pro-shipping lobbyists that buy congressman for them.

As for saying they will buy their own trucks. Well, it once was done that way, but they found that they could remove the tort risk, capital risk, and unionized labor risk that went along with having a truck fleet. They got the transport industry deregulated, and then had an environment unfold where it is better to "rent" than "buy", so to speak.

These "Economic Royalists" like having an economically unregulated and disorganized transport network that will move their products for pennies on the dollar compared to what a safe, legally ran, and well organized private fleet would cost.

Sadly most of these cost efficiencies are born out of driver desparation for a job which leads to many different schemes of financial entrapment, whether that be a inflated trucking school loan or lease-purchase schemes. They are also very good in the arts of corporate misinformation/propaganda, collusion, political corruption, etc. That's what the ATA is all about. I like to call them the AntiTruckerAssociation. Did you know the ATA has mandated that all member fleets must be speed governed to 65mph? Did you know ATA is the primary political pusher of EOBRs? Yep, anti-trucker, anti-worker, anti-middle class, un-American, un-democratic ECONOMIC ROYALISTS hard at work against us!

 

Hey rockyroad, I think there's a presidential election coming up, I'd sure vote for you!

 

[QUOTE="semi" retired;4109192]Hey rockyroad, I think there's a presidential election coming up, I'd sure vote for you![/QUOTE]

Yeah, that ain't gonna happen. I guarantee that.

We've gotten so far off base in this country. The democratic process has been usurped by big money. The Supreme Court even said that is A-Ok!

Our votes don't even matter. It's not "We the People. It's we the Big Corporations".

Let this trend continue like this for a while, the bankers and lobbyists will destroy this nation completely! The dollar will be worthless. It will become the non-United States of America. There will be a multi-pronged revolution involving different economic phylosophies and different ethnicities.

I hope you are living in a secure, ethnically and culturally united non-urban area because soon close knit communities are going to be very important again.

 

Only reason that I am working is that I am "retired" and need something to get me out of the house. Thinking very seriously that come winter, I will "hang it up" for good.

 

Hey rocky, just kidding, can't imagine who would want that job. Like I say, I live in a big city, and see 1st hand the degradation that's taking place, and stuff so simple as littering or disregard for traffic laws, and the shootings, several every night, and double on the weekends. And yes, I do have an escape plan, where people are leaving in droves, and when they leave, I'll be moving in.

 

How is it that there isnt a union for truck drivers? I mean, this job is the perfect type for a labor union. all it would take is a two-week strike to take care of this problem of low wages and long hours without overtime compensation.

 

Teamsters screwed the pooch back in the 70s when they hopped into bed with the Mob. Drivers haven't really trusted them on the large scale since then.