You forgot the part where people under 21 years of age aren't allowed to drive big rigs across state lines.
Electronic logbooks are the main reason drivers lost wages recently. Turns out that the market had adjusted to an equilibrium that expected drivers to fudge their log books, and once the ability to fudge was removed, the absolute morons who fill the ranks of logistics companies wouldn't up their rates and the market equilibrium was broken. This caused drivers to leave the business.
It can't be overstated how absolutely dumb the average desk jockey in the logistics space truly is. Having had to deal with a few different companies over the years (Hapag Lloyd, various CPG companies, Marten), there was no contest in offices with just straight up low-IQ but cocky jocks filling the desks. A brother-in-law is in the transportation industry, and he routinely uses fancy words he doesn't understand on calls (I hear them when I'm visiting) and nobody on the call is capable of calling him out. A recent example was when he was saying that "we need to work on improving the linear regressions on our deliveries"........ I tried to explain to him that the term wasn't what he thought it was, and he literally couldn't absorb what I said. He is in charge of hundreds of millions of throughput for a massive food corporation whose products are in every household in the country. Near as I can tell, the entire industry is a bunch of mediocrities with spreadsheets spending most of their days in meetings comparing their numbers and getting yelled at when they don't line up correctly.
Electronic logbooks are the main reason drivers lost wages recently. Turns out that the market had adjusted to an equilibrium that expected drivers to fudge their log books, and once the ability to fudge was removed, the absolute morons who fill the ranks of logistics companies wouldn't up their rates and the market equilibrium was broken. This caused drivers to leave the business. It can't be overstated how absolutely dumb the average desk jockey in the logistics space truly is. Having had to deal with a few different companies over the years (Hapag Lloyd, various CPG companies, Marten), there was no contest in offices with just straight up low-IQ but cocky jocks filling the desks. A brother-in-law is in the transportation industry, and he routinely uses fancy words he doesn't understand on calls (I hear them when I'm visiting) and nobody on the call is capable of calling him out. A recent example was when he was saying that "we need to work on improving the linear regressions on our deliveries"........ I tried to explain to him that the term wasn't what he thought it was, and he literally couldn't absorb what I said. He is in charge of hundreds of millions of throughput for a massive food corporation whose products are in every household in the country. Near as I can tell, the entire industry is a bunch of mediocrities with spreadsheets spending most of their days in meetings comparing their numbers and getting yelled at when they don't line up correctly.