These drivers have been fleeced for thousands and left with nothing. http://rigged.usatoday.com pic.twitter.com/4fO4Wmf5jE
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These drivers have been fleeced for thousands and left with nothing. http://rigged.usatoday.com pic.twitter.com/4fO4Wmf5jE
We found a fleet of indentured servants in the port trucking industry. Our investigation: http://rigged.usatoday.com pic.twitter.com/hbyS1a4LoH
Read this important investigation into the trucking companies that prey on their own workers: http://rigged.usatoday.com pic.twitter.com/7gUAejYpgL
Some drivers lost their homes. http://rigged.usatoday.com pic.twitter.com/Nfj2uzkfXs
Experts we talked to came back to the same analogy again and again: sharecropping. http://rigged.usatoday.com pic.twitter.com/aJYyf6dNan
It's like in Brazil
A common scheme is to reduce available work for the driver as the truck nears the end of it's payments, so that the driver defaults.
Systematic Slavery, it's everywhere.
That is because they are Illegals and afraid to complain
@CNN @nypost @nytimes @ABC @welt @AFP @DRUDGE_REPORT Bezos=Amazon Wants to Use Self-Driving Vehicles http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/2017/04/24/amazon-wants-to-use-self-driving-vehicles.html …pic.twitter.com/KnBV8fX5Z0
Truckers need to shut down....
And it is company dispatcher who determine if a driver will be fired or not.
While drivers have strict limits on the hours they can work placed on them by the D.O.T., dispatchers have no limits that they can require.
While the D.O.T. determines how many hours per day that a driver can work, dispatchers try to force drivers to work beyond those limits.
The only term for this is indentured servitude.
The driver is paying between $2,500 - $3,500 per month back to the company, plus in insurance and taxes.
Trucks sold to drivers can only work for the company which sells them the truck. And the Company decides how much work to give the driver.
Won't the new ELD regulations eliminate the over hours issue?
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