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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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
But hey, we save $1.00 on a dishwasher.
Now apply that to the entire industry-at-large!!! Not just port truckers!!!
This is extortin and slavery.
This country has so much servitude and human trafficking....
Horrible
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