In 1893 the American economy plunged into a devastating depression at the height of the Gilded Age. But it was the tragic and bloody events that followed which would create a paradigm shift in how the public viewed their government and the powerful corporations operating in the background.

“Automated brokerage software” lmao

Freight brokers booking "Strong" solos

Man, the boys just fell asleep. They are going to be pumped to see this on the morning. Shoutout to @MarkRober

THATS THE FUCKING JOKE

The comments are a great reflection of the current issues in society...

It took me way to long to figure this out...

This market makes no sense. Not once, but three times today in the Chicago market I booked a truck with a reefer unit for significantly less than a dry van. Has Ozempic really done that much damage to our cold chain?

Over the last few months I have gained a lot of respect for the people putting out video content... editing is rough and listening to your own voice for hours is worse than nails on a chalkboard.

Underfunding goes back way further than just 2000 or the FMCSA. Joseph B. Eastman, the primary author of the Motor Carrier Act of 1935, stated the budget was not nearly what they would need to accomplish their tasks. This would also be realized in 1965 when ICC relinquished its safety role to the newly formed DOT. Who, in 1975, underperformed the ICC and stated they also did not have the manpower or budget to govern the industry.

The Pullman Strike of 1894 is a great example of life during the the gilded age. A time when men like Andrew Carnegie preached about the attributes of a "self made" man but in practice, exploited the labor of his employees. The country was at the brink of a profound shift between unchecked corporate power to progressive era labor laws and rapid growth of union powers. In the midst of all this, the trucking industry was born.

It is a common misconception that driver wages have decreased 50% since deregulation. Thomas Gale Moore wrote a very detailed study on the wage gap between regulated and unregulated drivers in a piece published in The Journal of Law and Economics Vol. 21 No. 2 titled "The Beneficiaries of Trucking Regulation" TG Moore would summarize that non-union drivers at unregulated carriers would make ~46% less than their union counterparts. Because the ICC only mandated accounting reports from regulated carriers, the details and workings of the unregeulated section of the industry are not easy to find and is a major source of "misinformation" of our industries regulated past. Below are a few pages from TG Moore's piece.

Yeah that'd be crazy. Imagine if I vibe coded MOTUS and nobody could log in for a few weeks after launch. That'd be wild haha.

They sure don't make them like they use to.

She drove the open cab Model B in the winter from Wisconsin to New York. Top speed ~16 mph Wheels ~ solid rubber with wood or cast iron rims Chain drive 6200 lbs with 6k lbs cargo capacity. Then drove it across the country three times. And some of y'all can't even do a pre-trip...

Hey @FMCSA how about any kind of transparency about this whole MOTUS thing? You've easily caused millions in damage across the industry at this point with this failed launch. The least you could do is go public with how you're going to right the wrong.

While the Obama admin made some decisions to hurt trucking... that isn't the root cause. The industry has been a misguided train wreck for 128 years. They could just hide it better during regulation.

If they thought this about the phone... the internet would break them. "It is a man's mind and not his body that does business. Electricity has given wings to the human mind and made it almost omnipresent for here is an instance where a man's mind was actually doing business in New York, Chicago, Denver and St. Paul at substantially the same time, and all while he and a half dozen other men were having dinner together and discussing another trade after business hours in New York What did our forefathers know of any such methods of trading? And yet this is but one striking illustration out of a countless number that take place every day, all showing how enormously the potential power of the individual, for good or for evil, has been increased through the improvement in transportation and intercommunication of matter and mind." Written by George W. Perkins in the February 1912 edition of Trade and Transportation.