We've been in a truck driver shortage for over a decade. Megas use this to fear monger and are allowed to hire more immigrants and keep the wages down. Megas being the largest truck fleets that hire rookies at $30k a year or so just to make sure they can actually drive.

But there's no where to park on the coast for trucks, liberal areas deny services like bathrooms and parking. I was expected to deliver groceries at the start of the pandemic without any masks or hand sanitizer but now they want to fire the unvaccinated. Only a handful of places you could actually get vaccinated in the country without 24 hour notice and a car. The only accommodation they made for trucks was allowing them to ignore federal hours during the grocery panic last year (go figure when shit hits the fan they suspend their laws).