Over regulated corruption

Corruption is like a balloon. You can use the govt to squeeze the corruption in the balloon but that just causes the corruption to move to a different part of the balloon where the govt isn't squeezing. Humanity is corrupt and govt cannot fix humanity. Every time the govt tries to change humanity it leads to outcomes that make horror movies look happy and comfortable by comparison.

Most everyone else is NOT clean. People ignore the things they don't HAVE TO pay attention to every day. Read the business press that covers corruption and not the business press that just accepts money from companies to publish that company's press releases as "journalism". Corruption is widely distributed. Often the regulation just causes the people really not paying attention to walk into dangerous situations BECAUSE the govt is regulating it. "Well it must be safe or the govt would have shut them down. Now, I'd like to buy my ticket on the Titanic please."

 

How does it work in say Missouri……most of their coops never have a chase car. It’s not like ima go in an ask em either

 

Well, maybe in Hollywood, but they had a gross miscalculation as to what truck drivers went through. I did a lot of trucking in the most turbulent times, the late 70s, and I never saw any of the shenanigans Hollywood portrayed. Oh sure, you'd hear at the lunch counter some BS'er saying they "leveled the score", but never actually saw many fights. We didn't have to fight, we had good friends, knew our job limitations, and were happy to have a job. If unhappy, there was no reason to fight, and jobs were plentiful, a new one could be had the very next day.
As far as "armed inspections", I think any time the public is at risk, it opens the flood gates for safety. An office worker that falls asleep at the computer, is of little risk to the public.

 

Just saying it wasn’t all roses then either.
.18/mile split with team driver.

 

That's true, but eggs were .25/dozen. I never did mileage, and after a couple % jobs usually in the mid 20% range, got my head on right and went with hourly pay. In the 80s, I had a good company job with Crystal Farms, made about $15/hour and had a family, a house payment, 2 cars, hobbies, and still saved enough to foolishly buy my own truck. I don't see any of that happening today, sadly.

 

still waiting for an answer - What corruption?

Show us some examples with details because there isn’t that I can see.

 

So basically the same as owning a restaurant and failing a health inspection. Nobody makes money until the issues are corrected and the business is open again. Pretty much every business can be inspected to make sure they’re in compliance of whatever they’re supposed to be doing. And they can be shut down if they’re not. Trucking really isn’t that much different than any other business at the end of the day. And being out out of service isn’t “basically being arrested”.

 

We are a "deregulated industry" Since 1980.

 

That's a movie. Some truth, not alot. I might have been a kid. But might know somethings about it.


My father was a FASH independent. Longtime teamsters who was left out of the master frieght agreement. Everyone said that little group of steel haulers didn't matter. Fash took on the teamsters. Things happened. Not big win. But some of those "dirty steel haulers" shut the county down.

 

There was independent union drivers.