America’s Mom-And-Pop Truckers In Dire Straits As Bad News Mounts
The White House has put itself and the country in a bad situation but doesn’t realize it yet.
By American Truckers United‘s Gord Magill
The American trucking industry continues to face a growing number of challenges in 2025, with economic turbulence downstream of President Trump’s tariff reforms merely the latest bump on a very poorly maintained road. Many within the freight, logistics, and supply chain industries are predicting the ride to get even bumpier, with thousands of trucking companies at risk along the way. Will small-time trucking businesses survive?
An aspect of supply chain shocks experienced during Covid is known as the ‘accordion effect’, where a disruption in one part of the chain take time to be felt in another, but then the shock arrives at speed, good and hard. This tweet offers an explanation of Trump’s tariffs and how that shock is expected to affect trucking.
“The White House has put itself and the country in a bad situation but doesn’t realize it yet. Around April 10th China to USA trade shut down. It takes ~30 days for containers to go from China to LA. 45 to Houston by sea, 45 to Chicago by train. 55 to New York by sea. That means that there are no economic effects of what was done on April 10th until about May 10th.
“Around that time (it’s already started to happen) trucking work is going to dry up. Warehouses will start doing layoffs because no labor is needed to unload containers and some products will be out of stock, reducing the need for shipping labor.”
The White House has put itself and the country in a bad situation but doesn’t realize it yet.
Around April 10th China to USA trade shut down.
It takes ~30 days for containers to go from China to LA.
45 to Houston by sea, 45 to Chicago by train.
55 to New York by sea.
That… pic.twitter.com/8vnGDMWCpt
— molson 🧠⚙️ (@Molson_Hart) April 24, 2025
The problem for America’s truckers is that the situation is already dire, and has been for some time. News of small and medium-sized trucking companies going out of business has been a near-daily occurrence since 2023, and that is just what we know from being reported – how many single-truck independent owner-operators have gone out of business in the same time? Tracking those numbers is very difficult to almost impossible, over and above the cavalier attitude from the government towards the plight of these people.
How many more will go out of business given predictions that already below cost trucking rates are going to go even lower?
“In 2008, some of the largest truckload carriers offered to haul freight at $.80/mile to anywhere. They simply wanted to cover driver wages and fuel, but keep the trucks moving to avoid losing all of their drivers. If things get bad, it could happen again.”
In 2008, some of the largest truckload carriers offered to haul freight at $.80/mile to anywhere. They simply wanted to cover driver wages and fuel, but keep the trucks moving to avoid losing all of their drivers.
If things get bad, it could happen again.
— Craig Fuller 🛩🚛🚂⚓️ (@FreightAlley) April 26, 2025
How did the trucking market find itself in this position?
The market for truck drivers has long been juiced by the government, as they have been deceived by mega carriers and their corporate lobbyists into believing that there is a shortage of truckers. This narrative has existed for decades now, and has resulted in one of the longest-running stealth corporate welfare programs in the nation, where the taxpayer shovels out millions upon millions of dollars at these carriers to finance the training of new drivers, without anyone ever asking why the industry can’t keep them around. If the taxpayer wasn’t on the hook for a system that burns through so many people that many trucking companies have 90% plus annual turnover rates, the market would have maintained its own equilibrium.
Another way the government has flooded the market is through the use and misuse of insourced labor. Under the 2021 ‘Biden Harris Trucking Action Plan’, an apparent scheme began to take place where ‘red tape’ cutting resulted in many states handing out CDLs to migrants and refugees….
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