Policy‑driven trucking wage suppression

The decline in trucker pay is not just market churn but the result of coordinated policy and corporate choices (immigration, licensing, contracting, platformization) that intentionally increase labor supply or reduce bargaining leverage. That engineered oversupply has long-term effects on wages, logistics resilience, and working‑class political realignment. — If true, it reframes supply‑chain and labor crises as solvable political problems rather than inevitable market forces, with implications for transport policy, union strategy, and anti‑populist responses.