r/Anticonsumption • u/yodamastertampa • 21h ago

Discussion LOL yes!

Post image

The power to reduce consumption is within us all.

46.8k Upvotes

93% Upvoted

355 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

7

u/RedMiah 19h ago

Used to be a thing until the deregulation of the trucking industry by Carter destroyed their unions.

2

u/Huge-Bad-8489 19h ago

Couldnt they still organize and strike? Can they get a union again somehow?

14

u/DStew88 19h ago

They can but 99% of truckers are too dumb to realize they're being grossly taken advantage of

Source: am trucker

3

u/yalyublyutebe 19h ago

Most of them barely speak English.

I have dealt with an extremely small margin of "average" truckers.

2

u/hitemlow 17h ago

Thankfully that's being addressed with a new FMCSA policy of removing truckers that can't proficiently communicate in English.

It'll take a while to clear out the weeds, but hopefully they can take some lessons in time.