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How America’s trucking industry became a hellscape
Freight Waves ^ | December 5, 2025 | Craig Fuller

Posted on 12/06/2025 12:43:07 PM PST by xxqqzz

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To: Wuli

It started with NAFTA and slowly picked up steam from there ...


21 posted on 12/06/2025 4:21:35 PM PST by bankwalker (Feminists, like all Marxists, are ungrateful parasites.)
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To: Wuli

Elaine Chao, wife of Mitch ran the DOT under 1st Trump term. Hmmm


22 posted on 12/06/2025 4:22:51 PM PST by tinamina (Remember when Biden said “we have developed the most sophisticated voting fraud system ever”)
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To: tinamina

Elaine Chao, wife of Mitch ran the DOT under 1st Trump term. Hmmm


“You want any of your agenda to pass the Senate, you’d better hire her.”


23 posted on 12/06/2025 4:24:01 PM PST by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: xxqqzz

John Adams wrote that the Constitution was “made only for a moral and religious People” and is “wholly inadequate to the government of any other”.

We are bringing immoral evil people into our country. They will use every freedom, law, and policy against us in order to steal our citizens jobs, our nation’s riches, and our people’s freedoms.

Every single illegal alien needs to be deported.


24 posted on 12/06/2025 5:06:22 PM PST by CFW
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To: xxqqzz

The real hellscape in trucking began when Jimmy Carter signed the Surface Freight Deregulation Act of 1980. That’s when the old days of a driver being able to make a living on a semi-normal schedule ended.

The American Trucking Association pushed for the deregulation, and in doing so effectively screwed its members.


25 posted on 12/06/2025 5:25:33 PM PST by Bob Wills is still the king
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To: xxqqzz

Confirms my impression that the broker based trucking arrangement is wild west.


26 posted on 12/06/2025 9:29:46 PM PST by Sequoyah101
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