Okay, If YOU owned a trucking company would you want to put a person behind the wheel of a $200K tractor, pulling a $90K trailer with some ones product on/in that trailer that could not pass a drug test?
Do you have any idea what the liability insurance alone costs for a trucking company?
Add another thing...the new hired guy has to speak English.
This is just plain BS by the white house....nothing of this will come.
Swift does it all the time.
“..Okay, If YOU owned a trucking company would you want to put a person behind the wheel of a $200K tractor, pulling a $90K trailer with some ones product on/in that trailer that could not pass a drug test? Do you have any idea what the liability insurance alone costs for a trucking company?
A good friend of mine had been in the trucking business ever since he got out of high school. At one point, and not that long ago, he had at least dozen tractors traversing the country. With the advent of electronic logging and the increased liability insurance, he finally tossed in the towel. Sold all the rigs and trailers and now does land clearing/digging for local construction jobs. He’s home every night, makes about the same money and the insurance is about 1/3 of what the trucking business was.
My boss paid 60 thousand a year, for 10 dump trucks, another driver had a wreck, his fault, insurance went to 120,000. It’s not cheap that’s for sure, can’t imagine what insuring a 18 wheeler is.