The workers who keep global supply chains moving are warning of a 'system collapse'

CNN ^ | 29 September 2021 | Hanna Ziady, CNN Business

[Wuli]

and this

https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/hr-topics/talent-acquisition/pages/how-trucking-companies-are-responding-to-a-critical-driver-shortage.aspx

50% of trucking companies have trouble finding enough workers, which leaves trucks sitting and delivery orders not taken if they can’t be filled due to lack of a driver

[Alberta's Child]

This might be the first signs of a serious pushback by the trucking industry against their customers.

Many of these customers treat their third-party carriers and those drivers like crap. It doesn't surprise me that trucking rates are going through the roof, and many of these shippers are having a hard time getting their loads picked up.