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the trucking industry is doing better than ever. There is still more freight out there than drivers to haul it. CF went under due to bad management and the fact that they wanted to get rid of the unions. the majority of the smaller trucking companies that went under were due to rising insurance/permit/fuel costs. and many of them were just merged with other companies. at the trucking company i work for, we have had many previous owner operators sign on and 2 small companies leased on to us. when you join up with the larger companies, you get the benefits of better freight prices, lower insurance costs, and fuel surcharges. I dont think that the railroads have anything to do with the trucking companies going out of business. far too many shippers would rather pay more to ship by truck because of the reliability and the speed. as for the unarranted negative comments about truckers, yes, we dont pay our fair share for the roads, and no, we dont even cause half of the truck/car accidents on the highways, the small care does. check your statistics. a recent AAA study found that 69% of fatal car/truck acidents were the fault of the car. I, personally, would love to see the railroads take up some of the slack for transcon. freight movements. the highway system was never designed for as many trucks as there are now. the highways get built to handle a certan weight, then the ICC raises the max. weights, and the roads cant handle it. if the states would keep up with maintainence, and keep the highways up to the current standard, the roads would not wear out so fast.
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