Any changes would be varied. Either the businesses would tighten their belts, or they'd pass the extra costs on to the customers.
As it stands, they are just trying to lower the bar to flood the market with as many cheap drivers as possible until self-driving trucks become a reality. So welcome to my 18 year-old Class A CDL compatriots before too long. Hang your high school diploma in your new cell on wheels.
People can keep crying about the poor corporations and how hard it's gonna be for them to have to pay a living wage to people, or some necessary corrections can take place. Doesn't matter to me.
I just like it when the little guys take a stand against institutional power. We used to like that a lot more in this country back before people became corporate bootlickers.
"Ooooh is so yummy in muh tummy sweet sweet twickle down uwu sank u so much senpai manager-san!" Pathetic. Lol
I've got mine. I hope everyone can get theirs before this house of cards collapses. Setting up a fiat currency system then allowing the businesses that rely on our purchasing power to ship all the jobs out of the country hasn't turned out too well, so hopefully we can adjust to the new normal and enjoy our staycations and continue using the cars we can't afford as taxis and the houses we can't afford as bnb's, and yay corporations! Woohoo!
Lol I mean what the #### do you want me to say? The "economic fallout" of what I'd like to institute? Maybe CEO pay might have to come down from 300x the average worker's salary to only...250x? Lol
There are some serious wrongs in the world right now, and they've only gotten worse. The wealth disparity in the world is ALARMINGLY high.
I'm not saying this as a poor person wanting a handout. I'm saying this as a person who makes a GREAT living and wants others to be able to do the same.
But doing nothing hasn't worked too well the last 40 years in the trucking industry. Because that's what's happened. A big bunch of ####ing nothing.
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Where are we now?
Why should the trucking industry shoulder the economy?
Truck drivers should be treated like everyone else.
It would be nice to at least keep up with inflation.
Truck driving used to be a middle class job now it's just an entry level job, HHHMMM I wonder why there is a driver shortage.
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So start a company and pay your employees a livable wage so they can reach their dreams. I’m sure you’d have no problems finding drivers if your company is head and shoulders above the rest.
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People that have goals and determination do fine in this industry. They move up the ladder and into more specialized fields and their pay reflects that. But the majority just bounce from mega to mega and back to the other mega expecting things to be different and they will spend their whole career making lateral moves every 6 months.
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You will know the trucking companies, shippers, and receivers are serious about addressing the "driver shortage" when they adopt policies like "Detention Pay starts when the trailer doors are opened", customers must provide some amount of truck parking or the trucking company won't carry customer's freight, a customer locking drivers out of their facilities (toilets, vending machines, etc) won't be using our drivers, etc. Mot of the participants in the industry use a definition of "driver shortage" that means "we won't change what we are doing and yet we can't get MORE or ENOUGH drivers to work for us." With that kind of definition we also have a automobile shortage, super-model shortage, money shortage, prosperity shortage, housing shortage, entertainment shortage, everything shortage.BeHereNow97, Still undecided and LtlAnonymous Thank this. -
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People complain about no overtime requirement but all truck driving jobs pay well over twice the amount compared to minimum wage plus overtime for a 70 hour week.
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MW is nearly only a teenager wage.DRTDEVL, nredfor88 and RockinChair Thank this.
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