When they brought deregulation in the 80s, what they should have done was say that your company could mot exceed more than 100 power units, in order to keep rates, where truckers, company drivers, and owner operators could make a decent living, without running around the clock to make ends meet. When you have companies like Schnieder National, and JB Hunt, with more than 15000 to 20000 power units on the highway, you can not compete. I was an owneroperator leased on with Schnieder National out of Ontario Canada, and I showed the higher ups of the company, in black and white, that they were making a proffit based on 1 penny per mile. At htat time they had 14000 company trucks, on the road. Take those 14000 power units, multiply by average 500 miles per day> Multiply that by one penny, than by average 360 days per year. The amout was was herendous. Well nedless to say, they wern't happy with my outcome, because they were constantly complaining, that they wern't making a proffit. I was terminated shortly after. They couldn't handle sombody telling the truth, or sombody that wasn't just a dumb truckdriver, that they expected.
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