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Study * USA - Deregulation still haunts harbor truckers
New York,NY,USA -The Journal of Commerce, by Peter T. Leach -February 24, 2009: -- The deregulation of the U.S. trucking industry by the Motor Carrier Act of 1980 continues to impact how the 7,000 truckers who deliver and pick up containers daily at the ports of New York and New Jersey earn their livelihood... It has resulted in lower trucker earnings, driver shortages, higher truck emissions and mounting inefficiencies, says a new study by David Bensman, professor of labor studies and employment relations at the Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations, and Yael Bromberg, a student at Rutgers School of Law-Newark... The study based its conclusions on a survey of 299 truck drivers selected at random at the ports of Newark, Elizabeth and Bayonne... Since the 1980 law, most of the trucking firms conducting business to and from the nation’s ports have ceased operations. They have been replaced by small companies that assign most of their shipping orders to independent contractors who are paid by the load, Bensman observed... The researchers found that the truckers’ earnings are low. Independent contractors -- nearly 75 percent of the drivers who own and maintain their own equipment and make moves assigned by a single trucking company -– net $28,000 annually, and are without health insurance and pension benefits... Most of the rest are employees of trucking companies, which generally employ 10 or fewer drivers plus 10 to 20 independent contractors, and net $35,000. Some receive health benefits but few receive pension contributions...
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