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Truck drivers --- Trucking Industry. --- Great Britain. --- Truck drivers. --- Goederenvervoer.

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Trucking --- Road haulage --- Transportation, Automotive --- Truck freight --- Trucking industry --- Freight and freightage --- Environmental aspects --- Freight --- Road traffic

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Long-haul trucks have been described as sweatshops on wheels. The typical long-haul trucker works the equivalent of two full-time jobs, often for little more than minimum wage. But it wasn't always this way. Trucking used to be one of the best working-class jobs in the United States. The Big Rig explains how this massive degradation in the quality of work has occurred, and how companies achieve a compliant and dedicated workforce despite it. Drawing on more than 100 in-depth interviews and years of extensive observation, including six months training and working as a long-haul trucker, Viscelli explains in detail how labor is recruited, trained, and used in the industry. He then shows how inexperienced workers are convinced to lease a truck and to work as independent contractors. He explains how deregulation and collective action by employers transformed trucking's labor markets--once dominated by the largest and most powerful union in US history--into an important example of the costs of contemporary labor markets for workers and the general public.

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This report examines existing regulatory approaches and then explores how performance standards might be used to improve regulatory outcomes. Under a performance-based approach to regulation, standards would specify the performance required from vehicle operations rather than mandating how this level of performance is to be achieved. More flexible performance-based regulations provide for increased innovation and more rapid adoption of new technologies. The report explores the regulatory reform processes in some countries that have led to more direct, outcome-oriented approaches to regulating road transport vehicles.

Transport --- Transportation, Automotive --- Trucking --- Commercial vehicles --- Transportation Economics --- Business & Economics --- Standards --- Commercial motor vehicles --- Road haulage --- Truck freight --- Trucking industry --- Automotive transportation --- Highway transportation --- Motor carriers --- Motor transportation --- Road transportation --- Freight --- Motor vehicles --- Vehicles --- Freight and freightage --- Automobiles --- Social aspects

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There are almost three million truck drivers in the United States today. In the past 30 years, there has been a constant demand for truck drivers. Most experts say there are never enough trained, experienced drivers to go around. As a truck driver, you can work for a trucking company or a wholesale or retail store. You can work for the government, or you can be in business for yourself, owning and operating your own rig. Trucks come in all shapes and sizes, large, medium and small, and some have special features, such as refrigeration. All of these types are used throughout the country.

Truck drivers. --- Trucking --- Truck drivers --- Drivers, Truck --- Motor-truck drivers --- Truckers --- Highway transport workers --- Motor vehicle drivers --- Road haulage --- Transportation, Automotive --- Truck freight --- Trucking industry --- Freight and freightage --- Vocational guidance --- Management --- Freight --- E-books