Also, this line from the article:
“At trucking companies from YRC Worldwide to Swift Transportation to Werner Enterprises, this works out to a perverse requirement that they do “less with more.” Moving goods from Point A to Point B now requires that trucking companies hire more drivers — but work them less.”
My son worked for Werner. He hated them. Less time working = less income. His paychecks were sent to my house as his permanent address, so I saw what he was taking in. And in one 2 month period, he made it home one time overnight.
Is it government regulation or just the industry in general. It seems like regulation to me, but trucking’s always looked like a bad business to me.