[cripplecreek]

Unlike teachers, truck drivers are paid what their labor is worth in the marketplace.

Unfortunate but true. Its one of the reasons that true long haul trucking is largely disappearing. Its just cheaper to ship things long distance by rail and then put them on trucks for the last 4 or 5 hundred miles.

If I were a truck driver I would want to work for a factory for an hourly rate. The last factory I worked at paid their drivers $12 to $15 per hour for 8 to 10 hour days of multiple trips of 50 to 100 miles.

[Jeff Chandler]

The major carriers—union and nonunion—pay a fair wage: hourly for local P&D, mileage for long haul.