Gord Magill
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first heard Jun 2026
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So after the Motor Carrier Act of 1980 comes about, intense competition, lots of trucking companies go out of business, lots of drivers quit, people move into other things because now the competition, you got your lower prices, not everybody's going to operate at that price, right?
Yeah.
So now they start seeing that drivers are like a little harder to come by, right?
Okay, maybe just pay them more, figure out your rate structure.
Like you asked for a free market reform, it's up to you to fix this problem you asked to be created.
But instead of doing that, in 1987, this corporate lobby group who I have very low opinion of, the American Trucking Associations,
come up with this study and claim that if we don't have an additional 600,000 truckers by 1990, the entire economy would collapse.
The economy did not collapse.
I don't know if they got their 600,000 extra truckers, but what they found is that this was a useful narrative.
And for decades since, that narrative has gone through the media.
Everybody believes there's a shortage of truckers.
Like, we talked about this backstage last time I was on your show, and it's never been true.
There's all kinds of people with CDLs.
There's all kinds of people like me around.
They just don't want to pay.
So what they have is a churn in a retention problem where the taxpayer subsidizes CDL mills to produce more truck drivers who discover that the job doesn't pay as good as they say it does.
It has a whole lot of problems that nobody wants to solve.
And then they quit.
Right.
So I think some carriers have like a 90 to 100 percent driver turnover rate every single year.
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