Unionize the industry ....not in an effort to tear down the companies and take all thier money,
but in order for drivers and driver representatives to have real input and influence over the freight world.
You've got millions of drivers being driven by bean counters and desk jockeys who probably
have never spent a day inside a truck ...much less weeks on end.
Completely drop logbooks and driver responsibility to freight/sleep schedules that they
and their health have become slaves to and victims of.
Essentially lets dissolve the coercive tone that this industry
tends to hold over the hard working drivers.
As far as the physical/health issues...Take a research 'doctor'... drop him off at the nearest truckstop...
let him go hop in any truck of his choice and spend 6 months out on the road with a real world driver
and then they can see what a real world 'model' of OTR trucking actually is.
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