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U.S "Occupational Outlook"
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this post was submitted on 06 Aug 2024
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Wait I genuinely thought truck drivers make way more than that. They used to right? What happened?
I work around truck drivers and one of them once said to me, "We handle a lot of money, we don't make a lot of money."
I can also tell you from observation that every driver out there seems to have expensive-ass truck issues every couple of months at least. There's always something going wrong with these trucks, always shit they're having to get fixed. They don't even bother getting the "minor" issues fixed like the connectors that make the trailer lights work, a lot of the time. It's the wild west out here
They used to make a lot of money, but it hasn’t kept up with inflation and their costs.
What happened to the Teamsters I thought they had a stranglehold on transport and could demand a hefty wage?
Their leader is doing speeches at the RNC and decrying "woke"
Yeah I guess I meant what happened to their ability to bargain for good wages
It all started when the AFL-CIA kicked out all the communists. Eighty years later, there’s no militancy, no radicals, just labor aristocrats preventing agitation.
Considering this is an average of the whole nation, I encourage you to look up the pay for rural areas and even semi-rural areas.
Or look at abysmally low pay for high CoL areas like in Florida.