Deregulation, Lease Truckers, and Uber [View all]
It's all the same deal just downsized from 18 wheels to 4. When trucking was deregulated thousands of people bought or leased road horses and made big money for 2 or 3 years...then deferred maintenance caught up to them and they went bankrupt.Back in reality world responsible people running fleets were running programs that changed oil and filters real quick and expensive stuff like injectors, pumps, and turbos by mileage and never waited for them to fail. The numbers showed we won and made a profit. The bankrupt "independent" truckers were caught time and again by equipment failure which was catastrophic. This is going to happen and soon to Uber drivers when their equipment grows old.
This is what happens when you deregulate-it is a republican dream and gives a short term decrease in price. But long term who wants to ride in a junky Subaru? In time, and if you make it cheap enough it will fail. And half of our politicians like it that way...
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