Deregulation of the Trucking industry

In other words, the free market.

 

Use whatever words you want in that 16 year period that 70,000 new companies started up that was the beginning of the end of the good old days of trucking.Thats when many of the trainee companies came into being.1970~1986

 

Also the transition from the home time issues to what they are today.

 

?? It was the Motor Carrier Act of 1980 that Deregulated trucking, by Ted Kennedy, Regan took office in 1981 after deregulation. There was no strike either, I was in the business then, get you facts strait.

 

There was a truckers strike somewhere around 1979, but it was over the high fuel prices resulting from the second Arab oil embargo & had nothing to do with deregulation. (It wasn't much of a strike either)

You are right about the 1980 MCA, it happened on Carter's watch. It was Reagan that precipitated the downfall of the unions by breaking the air traffic controllers. When corporate America saw that, they assumed (correctly as it turned out) that every other union was fair game to be broken. And the unions didn't help themselves either, by succumbing to the universal human illnesses of corruption and greed.

 

Deregulation = too many morons willing to work/haul for buffet money.
Rates/wages that have gone nowhere over the past 20+ years.
In fact, the last time average driver compensation matched inflation levels was 1982.
You hear people bragging about $1.50-$2.00/mile...good grief, drivers were pulling for those rates 30 years ago.
Nowadays, there's an even bigger crop of fools lease-purchasing trucks for .90 cpm + FSC.
And you thought the days of sharecropping had long since passed?

I honestly have no clue why anyone with 1/2 a functioning brain would want to enter this so-called "profession".

 

This is what you get in a "free" unregulated marketplace- every conservatives dream. It's here to stay so learn to deal with it.

 

it would be interesting to see a rate table before