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    1. USA TODAY‏Verified account @USATODAY 20 Jun 2017

      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

      37 replies 1,675 retweets 1,564 likes
    2. USA TODAY‏Verified account @USATODAY 20 Jun 2017
      Replying to @USATODAY

      We found a fleet of indentured servants, thousands of them in California.http://rigged.usatoday.com 

      26 replies 923 retweets 679 likes
    3. USA TODAY‏Verified account @USATODAY 20 Jun 2017
      Replying to @USATODAY

      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 

      9 replies 603 retweets 463 likes
    4. USA TODAY‏Verified account @USATODAY 20 Jun 2017
      Replying to @USATODAY

      First they tricked poor, uneducated immigrants to pay $100,000 for brand-new trucks that they could never afford.pic.twitter.com/prqAwfM20N

      5 replies 331 retweets 288 likes
    5. USA TODAY‏Verified account @USATODAY 20 Jun 2017
      Replying to @USATODAY

      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

      4 replies 290 retweets 288 likes
    6. USA TODAY‏Verified account @USATODAY 20 Jun 2017
      Replying to @USATODAY

      Some bosses actually locked their truckers out of the parking lot to make them work past exhaustion.pic.twitter.com/V6uqGpyL4E

      2 replies 242 retweets 222 likes
    7. USA TODAY‏Verified account @USATODAY 20 Jun 2017
      Replying to @USATODAY

      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

      9 replies 469 retweets 354 likes
    8. USA TODAY‏Verified account @USATODAY 20 Jun 2017
      Replying to @USATODAY

      Like a lot of guys, Sam Talavera went bankrupt. Others got foreclosed on. They can't feed their families.

      1 reply 136 retweets 124 likes
    9. USA TODAY‏Verified account @USATODAY 20 Jun 2017
      Replying to @USATODAY

      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

      5 replies 231 retweets 257 likes
    10. USA TODAY‏Verified account @USATODAY 20 Jun 2017
      Replying to @USATODAY

      When Sam Talavera got fired, his boss kept the truck and the $78,000 he had paid toward owning it.

      2 replies 167 retweets 171 likes
      USA TODAY‏Verified account @USATODAY 20 Jun 2017

      The experts we talked to came back to the same analogy again and again: sharecropping.http://rigged.usatoday.com 

      7:04 AM - 20 Jun 2017
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        2. USA TODAY‏Verified account @USATODAY 20 Jun 2017
          Replying to @USATODAY

          .@BrettMmurphy an investigative reporter with the USA TODAY Network is doing a @reddit_AMA on the story:https://usat.ly/2rSGHuy 

          4 replies 103 retweets 143 likes
        3. Wanda‏ @itsWanda 20 Jun 2017
          Replying to @USATODAY @BrettMmurphy @reddit_AMA

          Thank you for exposing this.

          0 replies 2 retweets 26 likes
        4. End of conversation
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        2. Longie  ⛴ 🚢 🛳 ⚓️  🌹‏ @DaLeftHook 20 Jun 2017
          Replying to @USATODAY

          Did you cover the picket lines the Teamsters set up yesterday?

          1 reply 1 retweet 2 likes
        3. Longie  ⛴ 🚢 🛳 ⚓️  🌹‏ @DaLeftHook 20 Jun 2017
          Replying to @DaLeftHook @USATODAY

          They still there this morning outside the terminals.

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
        4. Zaroc  🌹‏ @UndeadZaroc 30 Jun 2017
          Replying to @DaLeftHook @USATODAY

          Unions are fighting against this crap. @USATODAY needs to cover that too.

          1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
        5. Longie  ⛴ 🚢 🛳 ⚓️  🌹‏ @DaLeftHook 30 Jun 2017
          Replying to @UndeadZaroc @USATODAY

          Yup. They are @Teamsters848 @PortDriverUnion & @wwunited . My union handles the terminal operations but we're not

          2 replies 1 retweet 1 like
        6. Zaroc  🌹‏ @UndeadZaroc 30 Jun 2017
          Replying to @DaLeftHook @USATODAY and

          Local206 solidarity, keep fighting.

          2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
        7. Longie  ⛴ 🚢 🛳 ⚓️  🌹‏ @DaLeftHook 30 Jun 2017
          Replying to @UndeadZaroc @USATODAY and

          I'm a former Local 952 member. Now an ILWU Local 13 member.

          0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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        1. Dawn M‏ @dawnhorenmize 20 Jun 2017
          Replying to @USATODAY

          @POTUS Are you paying attention Trump? Do some of your supposedly excellent negotiating for these American workers!

          0 replies 1 retweet 4 likes
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        1. Biggs Darklighter 🍞  🌹‏ @Red3Biggs 30 Jun 2017
          Replying to @USATODAY

          The new economy. 1) Don't hire any employees 2) make contractors buy & finance equipment from you 3) profit

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        1. Gwildor‏ @EdwardPrevost 30 Jun 2017
          Replying to @USATODAY

          Gwildor Retweeted Gwildor

          I've got their sharecropping right here...https://twitter.com/EdwardPrevost/status/880833018276880384 …

          Gwildor added,

          Gwildor @EdwardPrevost
          #MillionDollar #Idea ALL US Truckers resign, reach a mobiledev (I'll help) and build an @Uber for Trucking, and Target et.al use it to ship!
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        2. Trump=war criminal 1/29/17‏ @notchyo1 21 Jun 2017
          Replying to @USATODAY

          I didn't realize truckers had to lease their own trucks. It's not a company vehicle? How stupid.

          1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
        3. Shawn ryan‏ @truckr4life187 30 Jun 2017
          Replying to @notchyo1 @USATODAY

          Not all .. This article is misleading. It only talks about port drivers. They forget about the long haulers.

          0 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
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        1. j-dsa☭ #August21‏ @frakincaprica 21 Jun 2017
          Replying to @USATODAY @DarbyKathleen

          And that's not enough. Trucking companies are heavily looking into autopilot.

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        1. Wanda Arnold‏ @Obxluvr63 20 Jun 2017
          Replying to @USATODAY

          "Out" the trucking companies involved in this disgusting action.

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        1. Elongated Muskellunge‏ @PayasoNaranja 20 Jun 2017
          Replying to @USATODAY

          Sweatshop on Wheels by Michael Belzer. Surpise ending: the tractor is the sweatshop. https://www.amazon.com/dp/0195128869/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_dp_T2_igDszbQGXZEY4 …

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        1. DSC, Esq‏ @DSC_Esq 20 Jun 2017
          Replying to @USATODAY

          @ClayTravis maybe #kap could start writing for @usatoday

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        1. Kenneth Mosetti‏ @KMosetti 20 Jun 2017
          Replying to @USATODAY

          CSA 2010 goes against constitutional law should not be in force in the USA,Latest how companies now use dash camera against Driver

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        1. Kenneth Mosetti‏ @KMosetti 20 Jun 2017
          Replying to @USATODAY

          Shut down the trucking industry for 1 month I bet a lot of the garbage we see in this industry would stop.

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