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There are truck driver shortages too. It’s a crappy deal for a truck driver to take a load which they don’t know it’s risks/payout or how long of a drive they
by lumost 5y ago
There are truck driver shortages too. It’s a crappy deal for a truck driver to take a load which they don’t know it’s risks/payout or how long of a drive they will be taking, what they’ll do at destination, or if they’ll have a return trip.
Odds are you could offer truckers a special premium flat rate to clear the blockage - but it wouldn’t be sustainable.
- nrmitchi 5y agoThis is literally the same argument for why Uber/Lyft/Doordash drivers need to know the details of a fare before accepting, but a couple of orders-of-magnitude higher.
- rdtwo 5y agoThey don’t get paid if they are waiting too so it makes the job even less lucrative
- prostoalex 5y agoCalifornia emission standards also disallow a decent portion of truck fleets from operating in the state. Source is an extended family member who owns a small trucking company in Midwest.
- jandrese 5y agoThe Twitter thread said that the crackdown on illegal immigrants hit the California trucking industry hard since so many companies were using undocumented drivers to cut down on their costs.
- eecc 5y agoAh well, I guess that’s a nice opportunity to quote and paraphrase the meme: if you can’t make a profit while paying a living wage, the problem is not with minimum wage but with your business model.
- lumost 5y agoArguably this is more true in shipping than other disciplines. There are great economies of scale in shipping, and drivers/operators will be required regardless of wage. importing goods from low-cost areas, transporting goods with underpaid workers, and selling them in minimum wage stores doesn't seem like a great business model. Do shoes need to cost $20 or do the workers need to be paid $20/hr to afford $60 locally produced shoes?