re: Prepare your anuses - domestic supply chain is about to get a lot worse come December

Haven't heard much blame thrown at Trump by the Democrats. At least, not as much as I'd expect. You know they're cooking up something, though.

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I've worked for the judicial system and I've seen what truck drivers take home and I was shocked how poorly they are paid in many instances. COVID has showed how poorly paid folks who we as a country depend upon for necessities. The cashier at your local grocery; the guy at the fast food place, the waiter/waitress at your favorite restaurant, etc. These folks have been poorly paid forever, now that there is a shortage of workers, it's time to appreciate the work they do. Most big businesses have raised wages and some have started providing benefits. We're all going to pay more, but Americans will have more to contribute to our economy. This is a good thing for our country. Every full time worker should earn a livable wage. PERIOD.

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This is such a upper class waspy thing to say.

Do you not realize you just said EVERYONE will pay more? Even the people you claim you are helping

Inflation hurts the poor the most. The costs of more expensive truck drivers is just passed onto consumers you fricking moron.

It’s not a living wage when the cost of everything goes up more than your wages go up.

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Well I dont need much. Gas which is paid for by my employer. I can hunt and fish for food.

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says the guy that’s exhausted unemployment bennies on multiple occasions

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This is such a upper class waspy thing to say.

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Sheltered housewives.

I just spent 14 hours on the road Tuesday. I have never seen so many semi trucks.

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waiter/waitress at your favorite restaurant

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that’s on the customer, if you tip well, they make well, if not then the restaurant has to fill in the gap and the loss of profit is passed onto you - the customer - in the form of more expensive meals

Cashiers and fast food workers should not be career goals

Society treats transportation workers like shite for the last 30 years, is shocked that people don't want those jobs anymore - next on Eyewitness News at 9.

Seriously though, look at what has happened to the trucking industry in the last decade -
1) electronic logging tracking your every move
2) constant regulations coming from dc
3) Ridiculous inspections fining the drivers for silly shite - $200 for clearance marker lights out, $350 per instance for logging off duty/sleeper birth incorrectly, etc etc
4) Low rates and higher expenses for owner operators
5) Truck stops charging 300-400% markup on common goods
6) Truck stops charging $20/night just to park
7) Truck stops taking out restaurants and leasing that space to fast food businesses
8) States closing rest areas
9) Increasingly unsafe driving from passenger cars
10) Less businesses (WalMarts) friendly to trucks so they can get food and supplies while on the road for weeks at a time
11) More and more trucking companies pushing lease purchases on drivers to stay employed - imagine having to agree to purchase the fryer at a 200% markup when going to work for McDonalds at your first job. This is what they're now pushing for the "opportunity" to get into the industry.
12) Warehouses not providing bathrooms for drivers when they're stuck there for multiple hours during loading/unloading
13) Lumpers. Warehouses hiring companies like Capstone logistics that charge $400 per trailer to get unloaded, that charge naturally gets passed to the drivers.

There's a lot more things that have gotten worse since I started driving semi's over a decade ago - very little has gotten better. It's not a complaint list - it's just my observations. The industry has become so riddled with corporate greed it's tough to find a company that will treat you like an employee and not a sack of meat sitting in a drivers seat just to turn miles. I thankfully made my way to a great company and get to avoid most of these problems, but for the vast majority of the industry - who is going to work and put up with all of this shite for a job making $60k/year? Very few. Things have to change, specifically corporate America has to go frick itself and start treating the employees/truckers better than this.

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drivers who have been working all year and making BANK due to the hyperinflated rates on truckloads

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Please explain why this is happening and how it seems to exist in a vacuum. They are the only ones getting an hyper inflated rate? Why? Shortage of truck drivers? Gas? I mean, you are implying they are making so much with no overhead and straight cash homie in their bank.

How is this so?

Never made it past 2 months on unemployment. You spent more time in jail and rehab