Some insight on the shortage of truck drivers

[Ajay]

I am anti social media and refer to all all twats on twitters as fuckers.
Meanwhile you are here claiming that Krugman is not a fucker.
I'm calling him a twat who is a fucker.
Neither of us know him personally so our assumptions on his fukleristic qualities cancel each other out.

You can be a Nobel Laureate and be a fucker.
Those are the indisputable facts.
- Robert Kennedy

Oh dear. How about a shot of whiskey at lunch, or some MJ? Have a superific day

 

[hal2kilo]

Yup, we often receive up to 15 trucks/day, many of the drivers are from Eastern Europe or other parts of the world. Thing is trucking always involved long hours or even weeks away from home but the pay made it worth it, not so much anymore.

The Fn Navy used to hire the same Fn trucking company to move gear from Cape Canaveral, FL to Bangor, WA to support DASO and CET missions. They were supposed to be GPS tracked and loads not added or shifted. 2 times in a row, the Fn driver was a Russian National that couldn't drive on base. And at least once the load had obviously been shifted. We bitched, but the Fn law makes the Navy go low bidder. Whew, give it up you're retired!
I guess this triggered something in me.

 

[dawp]

A 20-year truck-driving veteran explains why the solution to the supply-chain crisis is in sight but greed is getting in the way

The trucking sector is cashing in "on the mess it created," Ryan Johnson said. It could fix it by raising pay, but that would hit profits, he added.

www.businessinsider.com

had link to this article in

It's not a worker shortage. It's a pay people properly shortage

Workers are tired of low pay. With the savings accumulated from Covid (and fed Covid payouts), they can be picky about jobs. Dinosaur execs are sticking to their low pay guns. they're gambling that the workers will cave before they run out of customers

forums.anandtech.com

 

[Dave_5k]

Chart is eerily close to exasperation of the wage gap

And both seem correlated with breaking unions and union power, heavily influenced by Reagan taking control of the NLRB around 1980, although deregulation impacts started under Carter:

 

[nickqt]

And both seem correlated with breaking unions and union power, heavily influenced by Reagan taking control of the NLRB around 1980, although deregulation impacts started under Carter:
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Tax cuts, deregulation, outsourcing. Supply-side economics. Give the rich as much money as possible and it will trickle down all over the working classes' faces.

 

[MrSquished]

Truck drivers getting good pay and benefits is communism comrades. Just like any other 'easy' to do job. Just ask any shitty conservative.

 

[Ajay]

Truck drivers getting good pay and benefits is communism comrades. Just like any other 'easy' to do job. Just ask any shitty conservative.

Funny thing is that I would expect a lot of truck drivers to be republicans. The industry has just worked very hard to reduce costs and increase profits. The attack on Unions had the desired effect of leaving truckers without any leverage. Many people didn’t realize that even when union membership was only, say, 40% in a given industry, their negotiations improved all the workers pay and benefits in that industry. I don’t understand why democrats haven’t pushed back harder on the unionization front.

 

[hal2kilo]

Funny thing is that I would expect a lot of truck drivers to be republicans. The industry has just worked very hard to reduce costs and increase profits. The attack on Unions had the desired effect of leaving truckers without any leverage. Many people didn’t realize that even when union membership was only, say, 40% in a given industry, their negotiations improved all the workers pay and benefits in that industry. I don’t understand why democrats haven’t pushed back harder on the unionization front.

But, of course. Voting against your own interests (prodded by billionaire propaganda) is the American way.