This Industry is Unbelievable

As a wife of a truck driver who just recently returned to truck driving, I am learning new things everyday. This isn't my husband's first rodeo, he drove about 7 years ago. This is mine however, we are newly married.
What I have learned about this industry is it is a high demand type of job. Companies are constantly trying to get drivers. And drivers are not always loyal to a particular company, so they move around from company to company. Not sure if this is the norm. I don't see alot of pay difference within different companies, everyone is paying around the same amount per mile for drivers and for owner/operators. Some companies have other perks (small) and most if not all offer benefits, i.e., health insurance.
What I find difficult to understand is the way drivers are treated, specifically with the company my husband is working for (Swift). After he went through the 3 weeks of training and the 4 weeks driving with a "mentor" he was out on his own. And he was on his own for approximately 2 weeks before his "Manager" or "Supervisor" even spoke to him on the phone. That is unbelievable to me. What kind of company does that? Here you have in many cases a brand new hire alone on the road and his manager doesn't contact him for several weeks. Not alot of management support there. Unbelievable
I've also learned it can take hours to get help when stuck on the road somewhere. It can take hours to get through to the call center. And then hours to get the help you need. This is money that truck driver is loosing and no one seems to care. My husband had spent several weekends 2-3 days sitting somewhere because there were no runs for him. Again, without pay. Unbelievable
This is only industry that you can work 7 days straight without overtime. Wait, you get a 10 hour break in your truck! It's the only industry that you can work overtime in states that have overtime laws, but you don't get paid the overtime. Unbelievable.
Then when a truck driver is sitting all afternoon and evening to get an oil change and not getting paid for it, something is terribly wrong.
These men and women work hard, put up with crazy drivers, who cuss them out, flip them off, cut them off, pull out in front of them. They go to a truck stop late at night exhausted and hungry from a long days work only to find there is no place to park because it is full.
It's a lonely, difficult, stressful and underrated profession and somebody needed to mention this . I've worked in business for 20 years and cannot believe what goes on in this industry. Rally truck drivers, do something, form an alliance, change can only happen if you make it happen.
This is not how you treat the truck drivers of this nation. Be aware big Trucking companies I hope for a day when drivers will revolt and get what they justly deserve. Or better yet, lets make a new rule that all the VP's, CEO's, Recruiting people, Managers, Supervisors, and executives that work at the coporate offices, lets make it mandatory they have to go out and work as a driver for 1 month.
Let's see how they make ends meet, when they sit for a day or two without pay. Or they miss their son's graduation, or their grandchilds 1st birthday. Or they have to work 3 more days with a bad toothache. Not to mention having to work several weekends in a row and no golf and barbeques at the country club. I wonder if change might happen then. Because he way things are now, is Unbelievable.
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Kimberly, in California