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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kidz bop, post: 6591018, member: 205247&quot;]I never got my own authority to do ports I was doing ports as company driver.</p><p><br /></p><p>All I know is the ports of long beach has had lots of strikes, lots of companies pulling corrupt illegal practices to barely makes ends meet. this is includes running illegal dot violation trucks cause they are too poor to repair them, this includes hiring drivers and mislabeling them illegally as independent contractors. and more.</p><p><br /></p><p>so many small port companies went out of business and people lost everything, this was people who ran hard, who violated log hours to run more, people who never got accidents or tickets. they all went down under. it wasn&#039;t because lack of loads the ports are always running.</p><p><br /></p><p>the pay for the ports i&#039;d assume is too low. lots of driver&#039;s went on strikes at the ports, even this year it happened. but also happened for many years prior. you had&nbsp; truckers whining about not able to make truck payments while still working 60 plus hours a week and stuff.</p><p><br /></p><p>so with that information, i&#039;d be concerned about having own authority as port driver. i think the small companies don&#039;t realize is the ports are your customer, and they can just pick the cheapest carriers, and overtime this drives wages down and down and down, until most of the driver&#039;s need to go on strikes to wake up the government. it&#039;s not the ports they need to whine too, the ports just pick lowest prices. the market collapses on it&#039;s own without government watering the plant known as trucking industry. you let customers and trucking companies settle it themselves then over time the drivers the real workers will get the short end of the stick, which isn&#039;t how it should be done.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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