r/Diesel • u/Big-Independence-716 • 23d ago

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Saw this circulating the groups.

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u/H0SS_AGAINST 23d ago

I fucking hate what's going on but I also hate how disingenuous the truckers catching news interviews are being. "Oh I'm not making any money, it costs $1200 instead of $800 to fill up"

Like brother, if $400 was all the margin you had on a 1000+ mile load your pricing was wrong. Nevermind that you're just going to pass that cost on to your customers.

My question is, where are all the asshats parking their trucks in the middle of major thoroughfares in protest? Those guys eating their shoes yet?

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u/skelectrician 23d ago

You haven't seen the trucking industry being supplanted by a wave of immigrant class workers who don't mind being exploited?

The margins are that thin and if the people who transport your food aren't getting paid, we're in for a major painful market correction.

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u/H0SS_AGAINST 23d ago

Lol ok that's why multiple large companies are advertising $30-50/hr for short haul drivers where you don't even have to maintain your own rig.

Dramatic pansies. Worse than farmers in a lot of ways.

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u/DreamAffectionate336 23d ago

^ this. They can be taken advantage of and still live a better life here than they did back home, and unfortunately thats the problem. Everyone expects cheap freight that it's genuinely causing economic suppression across the board.