Walter Cronkite if he were still here to tell the story
More than four decades after deregulation, the trucking industry appears to be in total chaos, industry turnover now exceeds 100%, as fatalities on America’s roads are now at a all time high, climbing daily with no end in sight, as Federal regulators responsible for safety have been forced to delay implementation of tougher training standards, because there is a shortage of qualified multilingual trainers, capable of overcoming the language barrier, CDL tests it seems, are now given in multiple languages, and rubber stamped by officials, whose superiors are now nothing more than puppets of industry lobbyists, who peruse a strategy of purging experienced drivers from the industry through oppesive regulations on drivers, so that the revolving door can hold down wages, and move profits to the shareholders and CEO’s, that have now hijacked Washington. That’s the way it was December 31, 2019