The sad consequences of the combination of a number of causes:
1) ridiculous rat race to the bottom in pricing by customers always going for the cheapest trucking supplier
2) inter-European right of free movement and work - which means that in Germany, there are truck drivers at domestic minimum wage (9.60€/h) and truck drivers from e.g. Romania for a less than a quarter of that - 2€/h (https://www.handelsblatt.com/unternehmen/handel-konsumgueter...).
3) a serious lack of unionization among truck drivers - hard to contact people when they are constantly on the road
Right now, people are actually looking at the plights of truck drivers because of the crunch, but I can guarantee you nothing much will change and especially no one will bat an eye at the situation once the crunch is over.
1) ridiculous rat race to the bottom in pricing by customers always going for the cheapest trucking supplier
2) inter-European right of free movement and work - which means that in Germany, there are truck drivers at domestic minimum wage (9.60€/h) and truck drivers from e.g. Romania for a less than a quarter of that - 2€/h (https://www.handelsblatt.com/unternehmen/handel-konsumgueter...).
3) a serious lack of unionization among truck drivers - hard to contact people when they are constantly on the road
Right now, people are actually looking at the plights of truck drivers because of the crunch, but I can guarantee you nothing much will change and especially no one will bat an eye at the situation once the crunch is over.