Squeeze on Truck Drivers Endangers Public Safety

Squeeze on Truck Drivers Endangers Public Safety

We don’t typically review late-night TV here, but a scathing report on the trucking industry by political commentator and comedian John Oliver qualifies as an exception. Oliver welds together satire and solid investigative reporting to document the intolerable pressure major trucking companies are putting on drivers. Aside from an unprecedented driver shortage, these practices create deadly consequences on our nation’s highways when drivers are pushed to the physical, emotional, and financial brink. Watch the report and share your thoughts in our reader survey, also found in this newsletter.

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