Another outlaw trucker kills some people. Truck drivers are exempted from Federal minimum wage and overtime laws, and therefore are pretty much going to have to violate laws restricting their hours driving, usually working over 100-120 hours a week, and lying about 40 of them in order to drive longer, being paid by the zip code distances. Foreign drivers are even crazier, and these CDL mills feed the industry with a constant supply of unqualified employees, usually paid for by Federal and subsidies from Federal and state 'job training' funds. The stare of Illinois even got caught selling CDL's to people who didn't even bother with the fake schools.
MIT FreightLab review of Sweatshops on Wheels by Michael Belzer. Reviewed by David HC Correll
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Same old shit, different day. Even local drivers get screwed, since companies that require a CDL for a job get to abuse drivers the same way, claiming they're 'truck drivers' even when they might only drive for 10 minutes out of every hour and do labor for the other 50 minutes, they get exempted and will be worked 70-80 hours a week at 'straight pay' with no overtime pay.