> They don't seem to understand just how much capital businesses are willing to spend to get rid of reoccurring labor costs. The trucking industry doesn't need

> They don't seem to understand just how much capital businesses are willing to spend to get rid of reoccurring labor costs. The trucking industry doesn't need to automate to slash labor costs. Exploitation is much simpler and more effective. A lot of truckers get the lesson eventually. The hard way. See for example: https://www.usatoday.com/pages/interactives/news/rigged-forced-into-debt-worked-past-exhaustion-left-with-nothing/ https://www.usatoday.com/pages/interactives/news/rigged-forc... A yearlong investigation by the USA TODAY Network found that port trucking companies in southern California have spent the past decade forcing drivers to finance their own trucks by taking on debt they could not afford. Companies then used that debt as leverage to extract forced labor and trap drivers in jobs that left them destitute. If a driver quit, the company seized his truck and kept everything he had paid towards owning it. If drivers missed payments, or if they got sick or became too exhausted to go on, their companies fired them and kept everything. Then they turned around and leased the trucks to someone else. Drivers who manage to hang on to their jobs sometimes end up owing money to their employers – essentially working for free. Reporters identified seven different companies that have told their employees they owe money at week’s end.