Something Terrible Is Happening In Trucking

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1. The whole trucking industry in the US is a mess, I work in the UK and 99% of truck drivers over here work for companies so we get paid regardless of the loads we move and the practice of paid by the mile is illegal over here as it encourages drivers to speed and cut corners, the big industry over in the US just takes the piss out of the US truckers and will always pay as little as possible, maybe you truckers in the US need to get together and make a stand against the corporate greed because it will only get worse

   1. Agreed

   2. Here in Italy I used tò work for a Company that paid you a fixed price if you drove within 400km, After that I’d be six cents for every km driven

   3. 😂well if you do the math with getting paid per mile you actually make $30/hr been company for 9½ years same company LOL!😂😂😂

   4. Things are getting slow at my company. 4 days to do ab 850 mile trip.
      I’m waiting around more than driving.
      I could also be a handyman but I don’t want to have to create a legitimate business.

   5. This is how our stuff is cheaper. If you increase wages for everything then price of everything will increase so your increased wages will be negated. Less wages and cheaper stuff or more wages and more expensive stuff it is just the same thing after all or probably US system is better because US has the most money of all countries in the world

2. Also the thousands of brokerage and dispatch companies that flooded the market really nail the coffin shut.

   1. tql…

   2. Wait a minute. Loud_Thinker says there are only a couple of large monopolistic brokers messing things up.

   3. ALL OF THEM are overseas….😮

   4. The brokers are the cancer of the industry

3. One thing would help is increase the standard to be a truck driver, the market filled with immigrants who easily get CDLs assisted by the government who don’t know a single word of English, they would do any load for cheap

   1. You fool forget one important thing that you’re an immigrant 😂

   2. I expect when Trump comes back, the immigrants will leave and American truckers will do much better

   3. This is basically what is happening in tech right now with companies outsourcing to India and hiring companies like Cognizant to employ H1Bs.

      The more these companies opt for non American labor, the less customers they are going to have.

   4. Always blame immigrants for your failure to see the real reason. Scapegoating isn’t new. Number of trucks didn’t go up, mini trucking companies actually ran out of business. Yes there is truth in some people will do anything for any money but you can’t blame everyone who wasn’t born here. The gatekeepers are the brokers especially the Monopoly of couple of big brokers. They pay whatever the heck they want as long as they find people to move the loads. Let me give you an idea, bud,
      If the truckers in United States were able to unionize things would change for the better! Just look at UPS. Good luck.

   5. @@GordysGoneMan Yeah, because if it is ONE thing right wing, anti union, anti workers, political parties do. It is to make it more costly for the elite that needs transports for their goods. Nothing a board member type like Trump likes to say that dividends is down…

4. What happened is the scammers from India became drivers and brokers

   1. Don’t forget the Nigerians also….

   2. No racists here…. lmao. Maybe just uneducated I suppose.

   3. Really?

   4. What the heck? What does that have to do with trucking? I have yet to see truckers from India. LOL

   5. ​@@carmenortiz5294 you haven’t been OTR then

5. Most of it are massive trucking companies who control the industry driving down rates to undercut smaller companies and O/O. This is why we need checks and balances in place to regulate monopolies on industry

   1. No, we don’t. I owned a small fleet for years. I survived the big company takeovers. You just have to be smart. We don’t need regulation creating false economies. Let the free market do its thing. If a company becomes a monopoly, then so be it. Gas prices were the cheapest of all time, compared to inflation, when Standard Oil controlled the entire market.

   2. @@thetowndrunk988we should only regulate the monopolies when they’re no longer at the benefit of the consumer.

   3. @@motobecane1000 And how, exactly, did the government get big enough to bail out companies? We want the same government making regulations that put a noose on the free market?

6. If flip floppers would stop hauling for $22 and a half eaten sandwich, that would improve 50% of the market…

   1. The Global Economic System is crashing, that’s why this is happening.

   2. Be quiet fool.

   3. Democrat Imported voters have permanently destroyed the labor and trucking markets, driving prices to all time LOWs

   4. It’s called Union Busting Democrat Pro Slave Scab Labor

   5. Flip floppers here because US tax dollars funding corruption in our home countries such as the famous actor award winning white helmets and their weapons of mass destruction videos… and same company funding cashless India … usaid gov stop funding corruption!

7. Another big problem that people don’t talk about enough is the sabotage of the diesel engine, by the EPA. The diesel engine is, without exaggeration, the very heart of the economy. Without it food isn’t planted or harvested, goods aren’t shipped, heavy work vehicles can’t keep utilities running, society grinds to a halt. Through EPA regulations, diesel engines are getting more expensive, less reliable and less efficient.

   The EPA is responsible for extraordinary increases to the cost of living through multiple regulations that do more harm than good to the environment, a leader needs to be elected that will nuke the EPA.

   1. yeah dummy, we have to breathe the air. it’s up to technology to advance. your way of life is a failure if it poisons life. you really are dull

   2. Now that Chevron Deference has been overturned, maybe we will see a change in this nonsense.

   3. That’s a load of shat. Keep thinking it though…

   4. ​@user-uq7yr9mg3j I’m curious on which post you are replying. Thanks for the clarification!

   5. That EPA is a travesty. What we’ve done to mother earth. Raped it for personal gain.

8. Every trucker I talk to basically says the same thing.

   Mass amounts of immigrants that take every single job regardless of pay and lower the rates for everyone, and at the same time the unskilled drivers are wreaking so many loads the insurance rates are also skyrocketing

   1. Some of this would be addressed by strong unions

   2. @@wendyleeconnelly2939 Unions and the Government are now one in the same, they tell you who to vote for, I know BS, no they really do.

      Bussiness or by Extension Unions have Zero Bussiness telling anyone who to vote for, the Unions that “built America” actually didn’t, and they pretty much only by Accident did anything good for anyone.

      Government Employees are Union Members, and they are told who to vote for.

      Nor did Unions get Child Labor Laws passed, another lie, Unions are not the answer, they are the US Government, and if you belong to one you work for the Left, period, since when was getting a Job supposed to force anyone who to vote for, is that a Free Country?

      I belonged to the AFL-CIO for about 7 years, and hated every minute of it.

      How much pay per week/month is your right to vote for whoever you want to worth, how much?

   3. I think it’s all kinds of people not just immigrants, I had 3 of my employees go into trucking for large companies to make more money, they each returned to me within a couple years wanting their jobs back. We work local and home every night.

   4. @@aarongarcia1101you hiring? Lol what state if you are?

   5. my friends dad was complaining about this, he’s been trucking for over 30 years and said it used to be an honorable job but now they hire too many goofs and inexperienced, unqualified drivers….in Canada we’ve had mass immigration from India the past 10+ years, some of these guys not only cheat to get into trucking but have also caused numerous fatalities and use their trucking businesses to smuggle guns and drugs into Canada. Never mind the turf shootouts and truck arson’s in Toronto when they got into the towing industry

9. The average truck driver works 100 hours a week, we tell the cops we work 70, and we get paid for 50.😅

   1. You must be talking about Australia ol mate! Over.

   2. 100%

   3. Bs…

   4. Yep I pull 60 hours and they push me to go over 63

10. When the lockdown happened i started cutting back on physical items. Now im buying even less. Im part of the problem. Very informative video. Cheers!

    1. We just need you start spending a few billion on products every month plz!

    2. @@Gill22 just absolute necessities and only at stores that offer cash back. Blind consumerism is a disease.

    3. our role in life isn’t to prop up an economy

11. Too many foreigners flooded the trucking game !

    1. Ukrainian immigrants ruined it taking loads at 0.80 cents a mile

    2. @@Ronaldo443- we must mass deport 75% of all immigrants illegal and legal in order to get the country back to normal

    3. @2500hdx it used to be a white and black man’s game with a few Latinos in it, now these Ukrainians and Indians/Arabs have flooded it.

    4. Ya, that’s not what happened

    5. @@Bengalanzing your a foreigner!

12. Nobody is spending money right now. There’s no demand

13. #1 problem with guys who jump from a company truck to there own is hardly none of them can repair there own equipment they are at the mercy of other men.

    1. Gotta buy expensive equipment as well as computer to diagnose the problems. The way the technology has changed over the past 20+ years you need to attend trade school to work on these trucks

    2. I agree and that includes all the specific necessary tools and a shop or land to do all of the repairs.

    3. ​@@matthewm9261I went to diesel school around 2006 and there was a guy in my class that was like 65 or 70 years old. I couldn’t figure out why he was there and then one day someone asked him and said he just wanted to learn how to work on his own equipment. He had a small farm with a diesel motors and he was just trying to save some money. Made sense once he told me especially the cost of diesel mechanic. My neighbor started up a mobile diesel mechanic business and makes like 12 to 1400 dollars a day. I think he charges around $100 an hour and his truck is paid for and he had all his tools from whenever he used to turn wrenches at a shop. So he really had hardly no overhead going in

14. No one is mentioning the high fuel prices,high insurance and high shop rates.

    1. Too many middle men.
       Truckers need their own stores to employ themselves. Make the customers pay you directly. Start a furniture store and deliver for yourself. You set your own prices and standards, with the customer.

    2. then dont shop at shops… lol

15. Tried trucking. Too many regulations, hoops to jump through, ect. Quit not long into it.

16. Truckers went from hero to zero
    My brother had a trucking company and he increased to 8 trucks and NOW he has one truck and works as a lease operator

    1. Your brother should have known better. It is as simple as that. You have a contract with a big company(Walmart, Target, etc…for at least 3 to 5 years. If not don’t even think about starting a company. You can’t compete with the big Carriers.
       You may think you’re going to get in and hit the lottery. It’s not going to happen.

    2. @@happyhobbit8450 thats a sad deal…u can thank all the major companies for that…they will hsul anything at any price

    3. ​@@dmr123kklaI thought Walmart had their own trucks and called their own stuff? Also what do you mean about having a contract with them? Do you mean signing up an agreement to haul loads for Walmart or Target for 3 to 5 years?

    4. @@prepordietryin9119probably independent contractor with a dedicated route.

17. Also, big transportation companies, such as Amazon, started to ship their containers through rail due to the skyrocketing cost of shipping and the lack of capacity. BSNF was charging around $ 0.65 per mile while we were charging $ 3.00. Within 2021-2022, railhead intermodal interstate operations more than quadrupled across US. This meant more intermodal loads and less dry van loads.

18. This is a very good explanation of what many of us knew four years ago

19. Its all about GREED, MANIPULATION, CONTROL and FABRICATION which clearly spells CORRUPTION.

    Not just in the trucking industruy but in every sector of business. Banking being the biggest culprit.

20. They got me out here running 7 days a week 16 hours a day
    For 700.00 a week on average
    This is my last load. I’m surrendering my CDL after 14 Years OTR. I’m on my last load home now 🙁

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