Welp, that's ugly news for freight trucking

[A HERETIC I AM]

64. "Many years"

OK....and so have I. I've been involved in truck transportation and the trucking industry for 30 years and drove my first truck in 1978.

Here's what you said;

Small operations haul the vast majority of freight in this country every day and a man or woman with a $3,000.00 per month payment on a truck and trailer is staring disaster in the face.

Which to most people with reasonable reading comprehension skills appears to insinuate that the "vast majority" of freight is hauled by a "small operator" trying to scrape together their monthly nut.

OK...where is the line drawn? What is the difference between a small operator and the next step up? 2 trucks? 5? 10?

I didn't cite the American Trucking Association, nor did I quote them, so I'm not sure why you would make that reference, and the Owner Operators Independent Drivers Association has their own agenda as well, so relying on a single source for this type of data is unwise.

As I said, what you wrote isn't entirely fiction, but YOUR anecdotal evidence on how freight is moved is not reflected in the reality of nationwide transport that I see every single day.

And I've been driving over the road since the national speed limit was 55.