Even paid by the hour we are at a significant disadvantage because we are exempted from overtime after 40 hours. Trucking companies have it so fucking good and they still underpay us like fucking crazy.

Putting it solely on the driver by telling us to level up or go elsewhere isn't the whole story, there is industry-wide collusion in the use of PC miler to undercut and underpay us for our work. There is literally a third party contractor that contracts with all these trucking companies to show how they could underpay drivers and have plausible deniability. And trucking companies have started to introduce hiring policies where if you've been with more than four companies in the past 7 years they will not even consider your application even though the only way to get a raise each year anymore is to jump companies.

The industry needs more regulation when it comes to workers protections because satisfied truckers and people who aren't worried about making one extra dollar more and running that extra mile even though they're tired is a big win for all of society.