:what-the-hell:
US companies/the government will send 18 y/o drivers careening off the highway (statistically) before paying a reasonable wage to skilled drivers. Can't wait to see what other regulations get sacrificed to moloch for the economy.
Also check out this 2017 expose on how utterly fucked trucking can be https://www.usatoday.com/pages/interactives/news/rigged-forced-into-debt-worked-past-exhaustion-left-with-nothing/
Los Angeles — Samuel Talavera Jr. did everything his bosses asked.
Most days, the trucker would drive more than 16 hours straight hauling LG dishwashers and Kumho tires to warehouses around Los Angeles, on their way to retail stores nationwide.
He rarely went home to his family. At night, he crawled into the back of his cab and slept in the company parking lot.
For all of that, he took home as little as 67 cents a week.
Then, in October 2013, the truck he leased from his employer, QTS, broke down.
When Talavera could not afford repairs, the company fired him and seized the truck -- along with $78,000 he had paid towards owning it.
Talavera was a modern-day indentured servant. And there are hundreds, likely thousands more, still on the road, hauling containers for trucking companies that move goods for America’s most beloved retailers, from Costco to Target to Home Depot.
Surely the teens will be paid ample compensation and not be strong armed into exploitative contracts once the probationary period is over
I'm a FULL-TIME quivering sack, thank you very much