US screwed their truckers and now want them to save the economy?
The pandemic took a heavy toll on truckers, who kept everything rolling: emergency goods, medical components, electronics, food and basic supplies.
They risked their safety and health traveling through areas hit hard by the virus. Market disruptions from international lockdowns and clogged ports, combined with consumers panic buying, clobbered the global supply chain and every link in it, as CNET's Kent German points out in his Made in America story.
That meant drivers were subjected to intense bottlenecks and prolonged hours to pick up and deliver freight. Rodriguez told me it was also stressful dealing with shippers' quarantine restrictions because he didn't know if he'd be given access to their facilities.
They screwed the truckers, now they want the truckers to come save the economy?
Truckers make the world go round. Invisible truths you didn't know about trucking in America
What's the journey of all the goods we consume? Trucking is dangerous, difficult and in demand. Here's the story behind an industry on the cusp of major technological change.
In May 2020, with the coronavirus pandemic in its infancy, a chain of colorful big rigs parked along Constitution Avenue in Washington, DC, for nearly three weeks. Horns blared as idling truck drivers protested sinking pay, rising insurance costs and lack of transparency from the brokers who set their rates to transport goods. In a Roll Call video, an organizer described what it was about: "All the things that were brought to the stores ... brought it, and they're the ones who got screwed in the end."
https://www.cnet.com/features/truckers-make-the-world-go-round-invisible-truths-you-didnt-know-about-trucking-in-america/
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