Table of Contents

1: A New Look at Competitive Forces
2: Two Decades of Decline
3: The Road From Institutional to Market Regulation
4: An Industry Transformed
5: Collective Bargaining Still Makes a Difference
6: Labor Market Failure and the Role of Institutions
7: What if the Rest of the World Looked Like Trucking
8: Deregulation as Public Policy: Competition's Winners and Losers

About the Author

Michael H. Belzer, a nationally-known expert on the trucking industry, is Associate Professor of Industrial Relations and Director of the Graduate Program in Industrial Relations at at Wayne State University and an assistant research scientist at the University of Michigan Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations. He is currently conducting two major government-funded research programs on truck safety. Prior to earning his Ph.D. at Cornell's
School of Industrial and Labor Relations, he spent eight years as a Teamster driving a tank truck over-the-road.

Reviews

"Is low pay in the trucking industry making the nation's roads unsafe [?] With the U.S. economy booming and the demand for drivers mounting, why haven't working conditions for truckers improved? [This book] argues that trucking embodies the dark side of the new economy."-"Sweatshops on Wheels," U.S. News and World Report
"Conditions are so poor and the pay system so unfair that long-haul companies compete with the fast-food industry for workers. Most long-haul carriers experience 100% annual driver turnover. The case for reform is made exhaustively [in] Sweatshops on Wheels."-- The Washington Post "The first credible cry in the wilderness describing the pitiful state to which the American trucking industry has fallen."--Land Line
"The cabs of 18-wheelers have become the sweatshops of the new millennium, with some truckers toiling up to 95 hours per week for what amounts to barely more than the minimum wage. [This book] is eye-opening in its appraisal of what the trucking industry has become."- Atlanta Journal-Constitution
"The first credible cry in the wilderness describing the pitiful state to which the American trucking industry has fallen."--Land Line
"Is low pay in the trucking industry making the nation's roads unsafe [?] With the U.S. economy booming and the demand for drivers mounting, why haven't working conditions for truckers improved? [This book] argues that trucking embodies the dark side of the new economy."-"Sweatshops on Wheels," U.S. News and World Report
"Conditions are so poor and the pay system so unfair that long-haul companies compete with the fast-food industry for workers. Most long-haul carriers experience 100% annual driver turnover. The case for reform is made exhaustively [in] Sweatshops on Wheels."-- The Washington Post
"The cabs of 18-wheelers have become the sweatshops of the new millennium, with some truckers toiling up to 95 hours per week for what amounts to barely more than the minimum wage. [This book] is eye-opening in its appraisal of what the trucking industry has become."-Atlanta Journal-Constitution
"The first credible cry in the wilderness describing the pitiful state to which the American trucking industry has fallen."--Land Line