An Open Letter to FMCSA, DOT, Sec Sean Duffy Regarding trucking

He hit all the points & issues.

 

Wow, I haven't seen you post on here in a long time. You're the older Brazilian-American lady, right?

I always liked reading your posts, I thought you had left the forum for good since I don't ever see your posts on here anymore. Good to see you back!

 

I’ve been seeing the results of this phenomenon for some time now, and I couldn’t put a finger on it. Thanks for this info, it was very enlightening, and I will most definitely share this with my fellow colleagues.

 

Every other group in logistics organizes and forms cartels or trade associations etc.

The bottom rung will always be drivers until that giant group of independents can find a way to get together long enough to push for reform. On anything...

For example, I can understand an argument for cpm decades ago where some jerkoff driver would blow his time on brothels, dice games, and knife fights in the alley and a good corporate angel couldn't run a tight ship to service the paper mill his mistress is a secretary for because said driver is hourly. Hence paid for production.

Now with cell phones there's no reason most company jobs in trucking shouldn't be hourly. Couple that with enforcing employee designations so fake 1099 arrangements won't be abused.

(You know how many Einstein American truckers can't do simple math and end up driving for free for a month and a half all because the shady 1099 co with hot logs says they will be rich if they run 6k miles a week pulling 10k in revenue on a shady accountants wet dream of deductions putting op costs at 1.40/m before pay)

There's a million different issues to coagulate around but the truth is simple: Those smart enough or crafty or shady or whatever find a way to carve out their little spot in the trucking space and are insulated or happy or whatever with the idiots acting as a cushion between them and sharper competition.