That's exactly what it is...
These greedy trucking companies are paying crap.
They couldn't pay me $180,000 a year to live in a truck, driving on ice, traffic, living in grungy hole in the wall truck stops...A dangerous and nasty job...You can't have a life unless you take your wife and kids with you. Even then, it's no life.
Trucking? No thanks...It pays crap...
I would only consider it for 200k plus per year, and then I'd only do it for 2 years or so.
Life is too short to live in a stinking truck.
Shippers are leveraging the heck out of those companies, all the while driving profits out of the system. I know this because I'm one of the shippers driving the hard bargain.