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> Trucking is badly broken, especially in the US. why do you say that?
I owned a trucking company and my family owned a freight brokerage business. Trucking is a hard lifestyle, especially over the road. The job is physically demanding and there are a lot of ways to do it wrong. Owner / operators and small trucking companies are, in some cases, like sharecropping. You don't make premium money, that's taken off the top through a series of intermediaries / brokers. You have to buy sub par…
Thanks for the detailed answer. This seems super sketch. :-(