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Sweatshops on Wheels: Winners and Losers in Trucking Deregulation 1st Edition

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Long hours, low wages, and unsafe workplaces characterized sweatshops a hundred years ago. These same conditions plague American trucking today.

Sweatshops on Wheels: Winners and Losers in Trucking Deregulation exposes the dark side of government deregulation in America's interstate trucking industry. In the years since deregulation in 1980, median earnings have dropped 30% and most long-haul truckers earn less than half of pre-regulation wages. Work weeks average more than sixty hours. Today, America's long-haul truckers are working harder and earning less than at any time during the last four decades.

Written by a former long-haul trucker who now teaches industrial relations at Wayne State University, Sweatshops on Wheels raises crucial questions about the legacy of trucking deregulation in America and casts provocative new light on the issue of government deregulation in general.

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0195128869
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Oxford University Press
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August 24, 2000
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English
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9.66 x 0.97 x 6.38 inches
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"Is low pay in the trucking industry making the nation's roads unsafe [?] With the U.S. economy booming and the demand for drivers mounting, why haven't working conditions for truckers improved? [This book] argues that trucking embodies the dark side of the new economy."-"Sweatshops on Wheels," U.S. News and World Report"Conditions are so poor and the pay system so unfair that long-haul companies compete with the fast-food industry for workers. Most long-haul carriers experience 100% annual driver turnover. The case for reform is made exhaustively [in] Sweatshops on Wheels."-- The Washington Post "The first credible cry in the wilderness describing the pitiful state to which the American trucking industry has fallen."--Land Line"The cabs of 18-wheelers have become the sweatshops of the new millennium, with some truckers toiling up to 95 hours per week for what amounts to barely more than the minimum wage. [This book] is eye-opening in its appraisal of what the trucking industry has become."- Atlanta Journal-Constitution"The first credible cry in the wilderness describing the pitiful state to which the American trucking industry has fallen."--Land Line

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Michael H. Belzer, a nationally-known expert on the trucking industry, is Associate Professor of Industrial Relations and Director of the Graduate Program in Industrial Relations at at Wayne State University and an assistant research scientist at the University of Michigan Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations. He is currently conducting two major government-funded research programs on truck safety. Prior to earning his Ph.D. at Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations, he spent eight years as a Teamster driving a tank truck over-the-road.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Oxford University Press; 1st edition (August 24, 2000)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 272 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0195128869
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0195128864
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.24 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 9.66 x 0.97 x 6.38 inches

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Followed to death

I drove 18 wheeler and was paid $100 a week for 7 days work. The book got many good points. Good luck people.

Reviewed in the United States on April 13, 2015

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True story. I used to work for SWIFT TRANSPORTATION from Phoenix AZ, the famous company known for many rip offs as well as deadly accidents as they train new drivers.
For working 7 days a week they would dare to pay me only $100. YES. ONLY $100. Sometimes $150, at times $250, most of the time around $350, once I received something about 600 or 700 after picking up load on the east coast and going all the way to the west coast. Lately, in 2014 there was a law suit against SWIFT, and they sent me $50 check. $50 check, yes, $50 check, this is called nowadays "justice", $50 check for stealing from my pay check week something in the neighborhood of $2000 to $3000 at least. I worked for them 1 year. They mistreated me badly and many other people.
Some say, ok boy, but you signed up for it. NO, I did NOT sign up for abuse, and less than slave wages. We were all lured by advertisements saying we'll make more than enough, as the work is hard and these Truck Driving Schools , at least the one I went to had stickers saying in first year you could make around $60,000, 60K. And all I made in one year was only $18,000. And at times like I said was paid only $100. These animals should be hanging not expending their business for they ruined many lives of desperate men and women.

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Blair LaMere

I read it and it's for real...

Reviewed in the United States on August 12, 2000

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This book is a little "dry" at first, quoting a lot of facts and figures. which the novice may find intimidating. However, if you look closely, you can find the real reasons that an entire industry is in a "race to the bottom of the economic scale". Mr. Belzer points out quite accurately how a formerly middle class occupation has been destroyed. He also makes the point that de-regulation may not be the "cure-all" that everyone envisions. Is a few cents off that box of "Wheaties" worth destroying hundreds of thousands of formerly good paying jobs ? As a long time driver I found the book to be truthful and accurate.

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R Dwayne

The demise of Trucking

Reviewed in the United States on April 14, 2014

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Dr. Belzer goes into depth about how the trucking industry has changed for the worse. What was once a good and steady job is nothing more that that which his title says-sweatshop on wheels. The changes in the laws that he documents puts you in the drivers seat like no other book about this subject that I've read. Truly an outstanding book.

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myxomycota

This Book Blows!

Reviewed in the United States on March 1, 2005

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If you are looking for some help in deciding whether to start a career in trucking, this book won't help you (unless you need some emergency toilet paper for the ride). For one...it's outdated and two...it's full of whining and moaning about the good ole' days before deregulation. A thinly disguised "analysis" of what happened turns into a full fledged tantrum about the injustice of it all. If you don't want to truck then DON'T...go work at the Waffle House!

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shak

All Sweated Out...is more like it!

Reviewed in the United States on September 2, 2000

Hurrah for Michael Belzer! He hit the nail on the head and now I hope American public opinion will drive it home! Belzer notes, that there have always been unique characteristics to the trucking industry that require economic, social and market regulation working in harmony in order to promote safety, and a reasonable standard of living for the participants. The smoking gun is open, unrestricted entry to the trucking business. It has resulted in under-financed companies operating 80,000-pound equipment at highway speeds in a society where aggressive competition drives the economy. That is simply bad public policy! When the freight rates drop below the cost of doing business, deferred maintenance becomes pandemic and that has created real social problems. Belzer stopped short of calling for economic regulatory controls as part of the only sensible solution, but I won't! Entry into the trucking business must require (continuing) proof of financial fitness to operate the equipment over the "long haul" in order to provide stability and safety. New under-financed entrants to the business who simply buy a truck and then try to operate on a shoestring in an environment where everybody's' front haul is somebody else's' back haul (read: non-compensatory, predatory and discriminatory freight rates) are a time bomb! The 22% national out of service rating for vehicles is proof enough for me! There is constant and unrelenting "churning" of entry and exit to the business, in an environment where just-in-time delivery, driver shortages, long hours, high speeds, irregular work hours, and unenforceable safety laws are the standard. Many of these same conditions existed in 1935, and resulted in the passage of national motor carrier regulation. We have been dismantling and tinkering with those regulations in a dangerous and piecemeal fashion since 1978. It is very disappointing but an accurate observation of human action that otherwise intelligent and educated people have a seemingly never-ending capacity for gratuitously ignoring history in pursuit of "solutions" to contemporary "problems". What is so woefully sad is that the re-introduction of failed ideas in the arrangement of human affairs almost always has both direct and indirect consequences and costs, in human terms. Resurrecting and repeating bad ideas and failed policies result in unnecessary and at times significant human suffering.
Belzer correctly points out that this business is very different from telephones and utilities, where economic deregulation does not have a direct effect on safety. Wake up America, and follow the money! We are trading human life for cheaper goods! The government cannot now, and likely never will be able to put enough police officers on the roads to enforce truck safety standards. The motor carriers are simply not making enough money to maintain their trucks! Freight rates dictated by unlimited competition will not ever cover the cost of doing business. In the last decade more Americans died in truck accidents than in the Vietnam War...225 per week and rising...the equivalent of an airline crash every seven days. Minimum, compensatory freight rates, and financial and safety fitness entry standards are necessary for safety in the trucking business! Economic deregulation, without safety fitness entry controls has been a miserable failure! In my state, I can start and operate a trucking company with less training and expertise than is required to become a barber!
Transportation deregulation advocate Robert V. Delaney once said: "The goal (of trucking deregulation) is to create an environment in which any public or private carrier that is safe and financially responsible can haul anything anywhere at any price for anyone at any time." What happened to the "safe and financially responsible" part of the equation? Deregulation advocates knew of the safety consequences, better than most, yet they chose to ignore the warnings! Is global economic transportation integration worth the social costs? No, integrating the surface transportation system, virtually overnight, through heavily lobbied federal preemption has not been worth the price we've paid! To the Delaney crew I say: "Your shiny new cheap pairs of Taiwan blue jeans are all worn out and, I hope, shrinking around your privates!" Your moral and ethical obligations did not end with your statistical predilection of great economic gain at any cost. You knew the dangers and you remained silent, or worst yet knowingly opted for the trade-off!

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