‘Indentured servitude’: low pay and grueling conditions fueling US truck driver shortage
“Truckers say the problem isn’t a shortage of qualified drivers; there’s plenty of people who have been through the training programs and hold a commercial driver’s license. The rot, they say, is far more systemic: low pay, long hours, and an industry that treats drivers like “cannon fodder”, churning out new recruits who inevitably quit because the job is so grueling.”