If regulation leads to profit.
If regulation leads to profit, then North Korea should be one of the wealthiest nations on earth. It is not...... Remember when daycare was no big deal, and everyone could afford it? Then the regulators got involved in the free market, and screwed it up, just like health care. Now we have folks who are asking the government to get involved and mandate detention time, since they lost productivity with E-logs. Essentially what people are saying is that they are such poor negotiators, they want the government to run their business for them. How long will we remain free, once business owners start asking the government to take everything over? Yes trucking rates were better before deregulation, but it wasn't because of regulation, it was becuase of demand. Every working American has went backwards since the 70s, not just truckers. Brick layers, cement finishers, carpenters, factory workers, etc. They did not deregulate any of these other industries like ours, but fall in wages was the same, witch puts a big hole in the deregulation argument.