Why am I not surprised?

Well companies could institute something like this too. If you don’t wear proper footwear and you get hurt on the job because of it, your Workmen’s Comp. claim is denied and any and all medical bills are 100% responsibility of the driver… also not wearing proper footwear on the job would make the driver ineligible to sue anybody for damages as well

 

Pretty sure that would one of the first questions a defense attorney would ask. Were you wearing proper footwear. Were you informed what the proper footwear was? Along those lines. But I like mine better make them see the gore and blood what the heck guts too. Get the point across fast.

 

1. False, covid was never bad enough to kill or put that many out of the workforce, it may have scared some people into quitting, but that amount was never enough to cause a true driver shortage, certainly not at the rates companies COULD have paid then, but didnt.

2. False, trucking industry is still here and making billions, you just dont like the way it's doing that, they finally figured out extra loopholes to do domestically what manufacturing has been doing since the early 90s, namely outsourcing labor.

3. Factually untrue. Trucking accidents moderately rose year over year with truck and car volume on increasingly congested roads from the 90s till about 2016, in 2017 it had a spike but then 2017 through 2024 remained pretty flat for both fatal and truck involved accidents. This despite continued increased truck traffic from 2018, 2020/2021, a volume which only had a slight dip over the past 2 years (empirical observation, when truck stops fill up/if they ever do hasnt much fluctuated all that much really, less the past 2 xmas to feb seasons)

4. But IF it was biden in 2021, why was the peak and plateau in 2017.... just before the elog mandate happened?



Im not saying we dont have a lot of poorly paid foreign drivers out here, but pretending it was biden and not the trucking industry incentives at large is laughable.

 

You're the one putting out demonstrably false info. Covid absolutely caused a severe truck driver shortage with everyone staying at home on lockdown and ordering everything online delivered. When it first happened there were actual layoffs of drivers then the increased demand from all the free money government was passing out all of a sudden everyone was hiring and there weren't enough drivers to cover the freight. Do you not remember the inflated rates and driver shortages nobody could find qualified drivers??? And truck related fatalities have increased 75% in the last 10 years despite regulations like ELD's. Google it. The last 5 years fatalities are up in direct relation to Joe Biden caving in to the industry allowing cheap foreign labor to come in here filling up empty truck seats.

 

Here we go..usual culprits..