Coronavirus triggered massive truck shortage east coast

Honestly,if drivers want to see corrections in freight prices(especially spot market prices.) They're going to have to severely diminish the supply of trucks.....basically,go on strike.

Force the government to enact a minimum rate which allows O/Os and smaller companies to pay the bills.
The rate will be subject to fuel surcharges(in addition) and cost of living increases to cover driver wages from year to year.

No more BS. This is the golden opportunity for drivers with half the drivers already sitting at home. To not move on this opportunity will be catastrophic in the long run. By next January (without action by gov't or drivers) rates will be at an all time low.

If brokers/companies and shippers see how drivers have worked through this pandemic and all the garbage they've endured,they'll gut the rates and wages will follow.

 

I opt for posting one truck per person, owner, as a temporary solution...
However...lets not forget about working people...company drivers...not a good solution...Strike that.

 

Exactly why you need a minimum rate.

 

Really? So how come every #### time banks, Wall Street takes the country to bankrupt, the gov uses our money to solve their fkups? Now , we have this pandemic , and what is the government doing ??????? With your taxes !!!!

 

Breaking News: Truckers block interstate 610 in Houston to protest low rates |

 

you had that once and thought you could do it better without the government,

 

Big trucking/corporations deregulated the industry,not drivers and here today is the result of deregulation.

 

So you're saying trucking companies that had operating authority worth millions of dollars lobbied the government for deregulation that made their authority worthless?

 

How do you like the turbo compounding engine?