I know what some of these long haul truckers do hr. wise. You figure their wages up door step to door step and they are working for chump change. Little time at home. Trucking outfits that pay a decent wage get drivers. Those who want slaves don't. Simple as that. Just another excuse to bring in Mexican drivers. (who you don't want to share the road with).
You better believe that's what this is about. Guest Workers.
I know what some of these long haul truckers do hr. wise. You figure their wages up door step to door step and they are working for chump change.>>>>>>>>>>>
I talk to truck drivers every day that I work and almost without exception they tell me the same story, the buying power of the average trucker is much lower than it used to be and, as you say, they work far more than a forty hour week, sleep in their trucks, etc. I have talked to some who don't even have an actual home, they literally live in a sleeper cab. It is not an enviable way to make a living for most of them.
>>>"Just another excuse to bring in Mexican drivers. (who you don't want to share the road with)."
Any one who has ridden in a Volkswagon taxi going 50 mph around one of the circles in Mexico City knows how curteous and safe Mexican drivers are. Their clean streets and non-polluting vehicles are a standard that we should perhaps follow here. Particularly noteworthy are the streets and highway during the evenings. And, of course, the best police in the world are south of the border in Mexico. No fairer police, court and penal system can be found. Inviting the curteous, non-polluting trucks and drivers into the US would be a most enlightening experience. Why not just let them drive across the borders with no inspections.
Hoppy