Thinking back to this CGP Grey video and how I believed it at the time.
And now:
US trucker shortage means everything is more expensive
The trucking industry has been short drivers for years, but the pandemic made it worse. The shortage means the price of groceries and moving costs are going up. CNN's Vanessa Yurkevich reports.
Source: CNNBusiness
I worked for a trucking brokerage after college and the exploitation of the drivers is insane. Dudes in the office would high five each other making hundreds of dollars of profit and the driver might be lucky to break even. The market is all about trucking supply & demand ie if a driver has to eat costs leaving the east coast then they try to make their money driving into the east coast but the brokerage makes money both ways.