Weekly, What recent changes are going on at your work / local businesses?

There is a new demographic of truck drivers. The problem isn’t that they are immigrants per se - but there are also language barriers, cultural differences and some exploitative practices that aren’t addressed. Some aren’t fluent enough in English to understand the safety training or manuals or contracts, but they smile and nod, and so do the trucking companies because they need drivers. I know of a trucking company whose safety stats improved considerably when they just translated their training materials. The KPI’s they put on drivers can be pretty inhumane so someone having a bad day and falling behind is going to end up driving that truck full of amazon crap like they are delivering donor hearts just to make their quota because their visa and health care and sometimes even their housing is tied to the job. Then there’s the regular old human error, overtired, over worked, distracted driving, daydreaming and modern attention span of a flea that has nothing to do with where anyone came from. Lots of drivers have more than one job. Guys that own their own trucks are a different herd. They are basically small business owners.