BUT FIRST, driver, you have to do 5000 miles a week yourself.

100% agree. People/companies forget us drivers sometimes notice things or talk to dock workers when we make deliveries. Amongst the Fortune 500 companies, let’s take Clorox to clean this up lol. Shipping office was friendly that day, we got the talking, the facility has about 200 employees. Generates about $7 billion a year, with a gross profit of $2.5 billion, they have team meeting about hitting numbers and staying on target. Company could afford to pay every employee $5,000 every day and still make $1m daily PROFIT, but upon their job postings or ads they pay everyone in the facility more or less about $200 dollars a day for 12 hour shifts without breaks, 2% raises every year, quarterly bonuses if they earn them. According to the shipping office they would lose their bonus if late more than twice in the previous year… if so, you weren't eligible for two bonuses, the year of and year to come because you did something the boss didn't like, for example, saying it's unethical to make people work 12 hour shifts without breaks, would also take their bonuses away.

Similar to many hyena companies, they (Clorox) could give everyone a wonderful life, amazing pay, benefits but instead choose excessive profits over humanity's well being, more than happy to have hire/fire revolving door staffing but promote well being and mental health every day of the week, all year. That was the only time I went to the Clorox plant lol; but a lot of these places we deliver to/for put yourself in the businesses workers shoes, act like an employee undercover like and look at their pay/benefits program; review how much the company sells their products for to consumers; how much they actually make and spend and earn (especially if publicly traded)… it’s crazy how much of a disadvantage people are at and they could easily be treated better without a doubt… but you know “at-will employment” or capitalism is the greatest system in the world. Then us drivers not only know that, but deal with crazy government regulations/rules meanwhile we’re just chilling, half the time in trouble for just driving, then know about crazy 1099 scams and other wild tomfoolery going on in the industry here or there…. we end our shifts asking “sir is it alright if I park my truck here for just a 10hr break?” lol… us drivers still in trouble for parking… everyday struggle in the crazy world, we don’t even get to finish breakfast yet, it’s always something lol