Wrong, I said the trucking industry as a whole has bettered ourselves and we've raised our standards of living...which is fact.
You continue to focus only on wages and bennies but the LTL industry as a whole since deregulation has seen shipping rates declined by 10%-20% in the first two years, service and quality of service has improved dramatically, complaints of drivers as a whole are non-existent as compared to the 70's, increased competition created more jobs (more than double by 1990 than there were in 1980), major gains to the economy including a savings of around $62 Billion per year by 1987 according to a report by the DOT which is contributed to a more flexible, on-time delivery service that allowed companies to drastically reduce on-hand inventories, just to name a few!!
For every article you post claiming one thing, I can find another article with opposing views so that point is useless.
Now to wages and bennies...before deregulation, union companies paid their employees around 50% more than other industries. That statement is misleading IMO when we look at what other industries existed back then...cotton mills, low paying manufacturing jobs, etc, most that have now been shipped overseas and replaced with high paying, high tech jobs.
I base my opinions on real life experiences, not someone else's opinion in an article with an agenda...I earn more than most of the people I graduated high school with that went on to college and got their degrees, some in those high tech fields, and my bennies are also better than what most of them have. I can't deny that unions offer better healthcare than non-union companies, but compared to those in other fields, they wished they enjoyed the insurance and bennies that I currently enjoy!!
