“The brokers make too much”

Were you not one of those scolding 1.5 dol per mile haulers? If so, you predetermined already that it is too low. Yet you have audacity to tell me who I am.
How about I tell you that it is you with shortcomings because It will be me still doing what I am doing while you need a government bail outs. You applied for those, have you not?

 

My being safe is only in my hands. Just as it is inefficient for the government to decide anti abuse business regulations so it is inefficient to tell me when I am tired.

 

Ok so all regulated but no truck will pick it up for that price! Now we call in the government to make said truck take it??

 

Why am I to be equated with all of you ELD happy individuals by the government?

These HOS regulations curb my productivity.
You dont want me to tell you what the fair brokers share ought to be then you dont get to tell me how many hours of rest I need either.
You see where I am getting at?

 

That would almost never happen, I worked in the regulated industry for years leased to a carrier, I made more money by mistake than you "businessmen" make today, Anybody with 2500 hundred bucks and a worn out fleet truck came become a "carrier". You got what you asked for and now you are crying because the rates are low.

 

How many have chosen not to operate at the loss and now are able to survive because they took the government hand outs?
As far as I am concerned this goes against your no government involvement sentiment too.
The quicker they would've sunk, the sooner the rates would have improved.

 

You've been told why these things are like comapring apples and the moon (even apples and oranges are similar)
1. HOS is for other peoples safety.
2. Pay regulations is to prevent someone from their own decisions.

Even if you don't agree with the regs, that's the reason. And HOS regs do save lives. Too many studies and statistics state otherwise. To say you are better, might be true, but it doesn't change the fact that as a group drivers need to HOS to save lives.
Also, if you don't want to work withing HOS, well... They have been around in some form for 70 years. Why did you even get in the industry with those restrictions if you hate them so much?

 

No, no and no.
I couldn’t care less what anyone else hauls for.
No bailouts for me.
43 years and doing just fine thank you.

 

Ok. If the government is effectively managing road safety maybe they would be efficient there too
Already antitrust laws or labour laws protecting you the driver.
How would you feel if your boss hired a foreign driver for 29 dollars a day?