Reporters spent a year investigating the port trucking industry, the guys who haul containers for the Amazons and Targets of America.pic.twitter.com/RMkg7Eefpq
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First they tricked poor, uneducated immigrants to pay $100,000 for brand-new trucks that they could never afford.pic.twitter.com/Ti9otCZRe5
Then companies used the weekly debt and threats to force guys like Sam Talavera to work up to 20 hours a day behind the wheel.pic.twitter.com/fgyeqB58Ml
Some bosses actually locked their truckers out of the parking lot to make them work past exhaustion. http://rigged.usatoday.com pic.twitter.com/IhBP3MKFRH
Drivers can take home pennies on the hour, or even owe their boss come Friday. Sam Talavera has a check for 67 cents for one week's work.pic.twitter.com/Rd4WQTZRHA
Like a lot of guys, Sam Talavera went bankrupt. Others got foreclosed on. They can't feed their families.http://rigged.usatoday.com
Yes, the @nytimes's now-defunct Haggler column addressed exactly this issue: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/10/your-money/a-truckers-tale-of-a-rent-to-own-runaround.html … and https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/01/your-money/hauling-a-load-of-breakdowns-and-broken-hearts.html ….
I coulda swore USA Today did that.... their reporting is so ..... so
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