I copied this from another post....
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Originally Posted by Sheepdancer
I know what you are saying now.
As far as celedon and the mexican national thing. I personally dont know enough about it to comment. However let me take the devils advocate side for debate purposes. Say Celedon does use mexican drivers bringing stuff across the border and delivery in the states at 13 cpm.
All in the good name of profit. Personally, I dont see that taking away from the american driver. This would be a new source of freight. Now say this happens and Celedon doesnt cut the pay of american drivers. And say the company makes record profits and the stock price goes up big time. Any Celedon driver who was smart enough to invest in the company would also benefit greatly by this. So everyone wins.
A good employee stock purchase plan at a very profitable company can end up in the long run making the driver more money than he was paid for driving a truck.
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When you lower the pay of what a driver is worth, it hurts the industry. Right now, it is limited to products coming to and from Mexico. So far, with as much business we do from that boarder,
all of the American drivers who use to pick up and deliver to that boarder are now out of a job.
Anybody knows what the percentage this is in relation to the US trucking industry?
And once this starts, who to say it won't continue? Expand to other companies? But who cares, right?
If your a owner/operator, you should. Once this foothold get in, you will be the first to feel the effects.
Lease/operators....bad for you too.
The last one to feel will be the company drivers, but they will soon find that the very company they spent time, driving hard, working their butts off for, is now going to lower their
PAY......and it will happen, where will everyone go? Screaming to Congress? By that time, it's too late.
Right now, your thinking about Chicken Little...."the sky is falling, the sky is falling......" hehehe
I hope that soon, people will start to post how this effected them.....
Good luck to us all.....we will need it.