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Surprise, surprise, Donald Trump is screwing over one of his most reliable voting groups, truck drivers. About 80% of all truck drivers voted for Donald Trump and 90% of all truck drivers out there in the United States voted Often they lived in critical key swing states. So truck drivers could have turned the balance of this election and tipped it in favor of Donald Trump.
Now over the past week, what's going on? Trump just absolutely destroying the incomes of those employed in America's number one job among non-college educated men. Truck drivers, the average seven day van rate mile drop to
negative 40 percent and still falling yep trump won this demographic by 80 percent his core electorate as jay in keeve puts it craig fuller from freight alley explains the trucking market conditions are soft but with imports and exports collapsing The industry is in for a very rough season in the coming months. The winds are picking up, but the hurricane is still offshore.
The way I've described it right now is it's like a tsunami where the shore recedes and And you see that tsunami coming and you know where this story is going to end and it's not gonna go well for truckers. The only difference with this tsunami example is a tsunami and many tsunamis and average size tsunamis are already hitting this industry. As Dominic Tullo says,
COVID level supply shocks are beginning to happen. The general public and most operators have no idea what could be headed our way if this is not fixed within a week. And it won't be. May 2020 had 51 shipment blank sailings over October. 80 so far in April 2025. COVID actually will look like good times for the trucking industry. Let me repeat that stat one more time for you.
In May 2020, there were 51 shipments of blank sailings. Already over 80 in April of 2025. And just for the non-truck drivers and people who don't follow freight, blank sailings occur when ocean carriers skip scheduled port calls due to low freight demand or equipment shortages, disrupting supply chains.
So in April 2025, over 80 blank sailings were reported, surpassing the 51 from May 2020, signaling a severe collapse. In global shipping activity, this spike in blank sailings could exacerbate the trucking market woes as reduced import and exports shrink freight volumes, intensifying economic pressure. Craig Fuller from Freight Alley goes on to say more.
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