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Mark.b2

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2. This should help with the oversupply of trucks...
Fri Aug 22, 2025, 09:39 AM
Friday

We are in year four of a freight recession where there are too many trucks chasing after the amount of freight that’s out there. I’m in the biz and am constantly amazed at the rates some truckers are willing to move freight.

The large national carriers spend billions recruiting, qualifying, hiring, and training drivers, putting them in the best equipment, and (for the most part) giving them good wages and benefits only to compete with fly-by-night, piss-ant carriers who care only for a warm body in the seat for the next load…safety be damned.

My company tests all the latest tech with autonomous trucks and alternative energy. One, the tech on both has a long way to go. Two, shippers won’t like the cost.
So, for the far foreseeable future, there’ll be drivers behind the wheel.

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