Reporters spent a year investigating the port trucking industry, the guys who haul containers for the Amazons and Targets of America.pic.twitter.com/LIiaNteOqu
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At least 60 companies use the same lease-to-own scheme to trap their workers into debt and sometimes forced labor.https://usat.ly/2rMkZ01
First they tricked poor, uneducated immigrants to pay $100,000 for brand-new trucks that they could never afford.pic.twitter.com/prqAwfM20N
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/BVRtT5ZkhA
Some bosses actually locked their truckers out of the parking lot to make them work past exhaustion.pic.twitter.com/V6uqGpyL4E
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/yy7qwYMO3r
Like a lot of guys, Sam Talavera went bankrupt. Others got foreclosed on. They can't feed their families.
They were promised a truck. But we found hundreds of drivers who were fired, sometimes just for getting sick or going to a funeral.pic.twitter.com/V74KASshiD
When Sam Talavera got fired, his boss kept the truck and the $78,000 he had paid toward owning it.
The experts we talked to came back to the same analogy again and again: sharecropping.http://rigged.usatoday.com
.@BrettMmurphy an investigative reporter with the USA TODAY Network is doing a @reddit_AMA on the story:https://usat.ly/2rSGHuy
As a former truck driver, I've heard of this happening to commercial drivers in all parts of the industry. It happens, a lot.
Its California run by Democrats....they love slavery always have
uh, has little to do with state government and everything to do with predatory corporations
so its been going on for years and state Govt Knows Nothing? no inspecters DOT has to license? OK whatever you say. INSPECTORS paid off
Uh, did you read the number of times these companies have lost in court?
The cos. lose 97% of the suits by drivers. Presumably there are are lots more cheated drivers who who can't sue or union won't sure for them
perhaps they should go home? I don't union jobs are doing that.......
I'm not sure what you're trying to say?
Grateful to to Brett Murphy, Omar Ornelas and @USATODAY for exposing this. At a loss for words.https://twitter.com/USATODAY/status/877163248172371969 …
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