Over regulated corruption

It’s what they choose to overregulate and what they don’t and what they choose to enforce by the book and what they don’t. That’s the issue. I’ll put it to you this way. With All the regulations on the books that are already there the feds have the power to go in and get rid of all these illegal or shady operating trucking companies with shady drivers who are illegal and for whatever reason they’ve chosen not to do it. Maybe that will change soon.

 

Regulation is simply a way for one group to control any potential competition's efforts to take over.

 

You think it is corrupt now, back in my day, a guy named Jimmy Hoffa, who now resides in a 55 gal. drum under the Jersey Pike, found out. Back then, you kept a low profile, and did what you were told. While I do think trucking is over regulated, it's a culmination of what we screwed up, and we haven't seen the half of it. I don't think our society deals with the corrupt trucking companies like we did, back then, there was just too much freight to haul, and was perfect for anyone with a truck. Crookedness was rampant, and we paid the price for that in over regulation. Now, as the world continues to slide, there may again be a time, when an outlaw could make a go of it again. Thing there is, electronics will find you pretty fast. Can't win, don't try.

 

Lol at saying trucking is “over regulated”. It is literally one of the easiest industries to enter with an astonishingly low barrier ($300 and some insurance). It’s not corruption, it’s just the fact that when you open the floodgates and make it so anyone with a pulse can operate a truck and get authority then you get what we have. And any time there’s a mention of using technology, like having a transponder tied to your registration to make sure insurance and everything else is current, OOIDA is one of the ones that cries the loudest.

There’s not enough man power to enforce the current regs and keep up with the new companies popping up. And you can simply re-regulate the industry when it comes to granting authority.

 

What corruption?

Show us some examples with details because there isn’t that I can see.

over-regulated? Try the aircraft industry, should we be like them?

the regulations other than HOS is our own making, we are a lazy group who is in it for the money, drivers have gotten so lazy that they piss and **** at the fuel pump.

we deserve these regulations and if we want to do something about it, it starts with getting rid of crap drivers and forcing the fmcsa to enforce their regulations on carriers, make it a hell of a lot harder to get an authority and hold owners totally accountable.

 

Regulations are here because we truckers don't act right. Some are also in existence as a money grab. I'm inclined to believe every industry is "over-regualated." Gotta have protections from lawsuits and the works.

 

Over regulated? Look up trucking prior to July 1, 1980.

 

The only industry whose regulations are enforced by armed inspectors. There is no other job where you are liable for fines for any of hundreds of offences, many of which are not a safety issue, just a money grab

 

Watch to remember what the good old days were like for independent truckers