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The American Trucking Industry Runs on Exploitation — Here’s The Proof | Candace Ep 196
Fri, 06 Jun 2025
We talk about the modern mask of slavery in America and how indentured servitude is creeping into more and more of our biggest industries. Follow Ian's channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@Iancarrollshow 00:00 - Start. 00:40 - The trucking industry's corruption. 19:37 - Joe Biden & the prison-industrial complex. 28:33 - The dark side of the franchising industry. 48:20 - Comments. Ground News Use the link https://groundnews.com/candace to get 40% off the Vantage subscription to see through mainstream media narratives. The Wellness Company Save $90 + get FREE shipping with promo code CANDACE at http://www.TWC.Health/Candace American Financing Call American Financing today to find out how customers are saving an average of $800/month. Call 800-795-1210 or visit http://www.AmericanFinancing.net/owens NMLS 182334, https://www.nmlsconsumeraccess.org Candace Official Website: https://candaceowens.com Candace Merch: https://shop.candaceowens.com Candace on Apple Podcasts: https://t.co/Pp5VZiLXbq Candace on Spotify: https://t.co/16pMuADXuT Candace on Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/RealCandaceO Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chapter 1: What is the modern mask of slavery in America?
Chapter 2: How is the trucking industry corrupt?
Aber das ist das Ding mit Tinder. Es führt dich an Orte, die du nie erwartet hättest. Wohin es dich auch führt. It starts with a swipe. Tinder.
Pop-Quiz. Was war das Jahr, in dem die USA die Slaverie verabschiedeten? Du hättest 1865 beantwortet. Aber bist du sicher über das? Denn heute sprechen wir über die moderne Maske der Slaverie in Amerika und die verdächtige Verwaltung, die sich in mehr und mehr unserer größten Industrien befindet und mehr und mehr von uns entfaltet, während die Reichen einfach immer reicher werden.
Willkommen zurück zu Candace. In The Secret Life of Groceries, Benjamin Lorde hat einen Profil auf einem Trucker, den er für eine Woche mitgefahren hat, während er versucht hat, über die Schiffen und Logistik zu lernen, die in unsere Groceries gehen. Und es ist schockierend.
Und letzte Zeit, habe ich eine Geschichte aus diesem Buch gelesen, und es hat viel zu lesen, um den Charakter von Thun Lin, der ein Slave-Laborer in der Schrimp-Industrie in Thailand, zu akzeptieren. Diese Zeit, mache ich nicht so viel direkte Lesung, sondern mische zusammen Quotationen und Summary, um zu zeigen, wie absolut verrückt und verdammt die Welt von Long-Haul-Trucking ist.
Und ähnlich wie der letzte Story, wird dieser anfangen, sehenswürdig zu beginnen. Und am Ende wirst du dein ganzes Verständnis von Amerika, der Supermarkt und jedem Produkt, das du kaufst, wiederentdecken. Denn es scheint, dass unsere amerikanische Art von Leben nicht nur auf brutalen Slavenarbeit in weit entfernten Orten wie Thailand oder Indien abhängig ist.
More and more Americans are slipping deeper into what can only be called indentured servitude and bordering on outright slavery as well. And truckers are a vast and underappreciated lot. So, first of all, understand that everything, Everything in your life comes to you on a truck.
From the big appliances of our lives to the smallest bite of food, every single staple, butter knife, copper wire or ceramic mug comes via a truck. If you build it yourself, the parts you use for building arrived on a truck. If you grow it, the seeds, organic fertilizer and bailing wire for your compost bin arrived that way too. Trucking as an industry is gargantuan.
In America, 10.7 billion tons of freight are moved per year. That breaks down to 54 million tons a day or 350 pounds of freight per man, woman and child moving around this country every single day. Bis zum nächsten Mal. Tracking is the most common form of employment in the majority of American states, with more than 12.6 million commercial drivers circulating our highways.
That is almost 5% of adults in America working in trucking. Without trucking, life in America ceases. They are like our nation's circulatory system, bringing everything that is needed, where it is needed, when it is needed. And the industry ebbs and flows with minute shifts in our economy or our taste for the holiday season.
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Chapter 3: What are the challenges faced by truck drivers?
In The Secret Life of Groceries, Lore writes, The trucker is constantly on edge, recalculating braking distance based on the load, expecting and then reacting to major equipment failure, tensing up at the slightest precipitation in a manner that simply has no analog in the modern car. Runaway-Ramps are meaningful lifelines.
Shifting into the wrong lane, merging onto any and every off-ramp, a momentary lack of caution, or just for half a second, treating your truck like a regular car, will lead to death. Lynn Riles, the trucker that he's profiling, says, quote, In a car, your blind spot might be a few feet. Mine is 53 feet.
Lohr lebte in der Kabine mit Lynn Riles für eine Woche und er beschreibt einen einzigen Lohn, nur einen alten, üblichen Trip von irgendwo zu irgendwo, aber indizierend für die Form von Lynns Leben. Und am Ende des Trips kommen sie in einen Aldi-Distributionszentrum.
Dieser Trip war Dairy, startete in Charlotte, North Carolina und war 1.050 Meilen, stoppte an drei verschiedenen Distributionszentren. Für diese Reise wurde Lynn mit 1.231 Dollar bezahlt, oder 1,16 Dollar pro Meile, was ziemlich gut für einen gebrocherten Lohn ist, scheint sich. Außerdem wurde sie mit 368,50 Dollar für Feuer bezahlt, was den Feuer nicht betrifft.
Aber alle gesagt, für zwei oder drei Tage Arbeit, das klingt nicht so schlecht, oder? Wie Laura es sagt, das ist die Lüge. Aber hier ist der Hook. Die Deduktionen. Right off the top, Cargill, who she drives for, takes 28% of her gross pay and 10% of her fuel pay for the privilege of driving in their fleet. Then the $300 weekly fee for leasing her truck.
She still owes last week's truck payment too, because it was a slow week, so it was double this week. Then she has to pay the guys who unload her truck as well. There's also a mandatory cleaning fee out of pocket, maybe a couple hundred more bucks. Dann gibt es die Fixkosten, die jedes Monat und Jahr durchgeführt werden.
Lynn zahlt Taxen pro Meile, pro Staat und muss einen Accountant bezahlen, um die Komplexität all dieser Dinge zu beantworten. Nicht eine Wahl für sie, weil Cargill sie benötigt. Sie benötigen auch, dass sie einen Arbeiter behalten, um Billen-Disputen zu beantworten. Dann ist die Sicherung auch mandatorisch mit ihrer verabschiedeten Sicherung.
Dann die Sicherung auf ihrem Truck, den sie nicht kauft, was Laura zeigt. Wenn du 12.000 Meilen im Monat in einem großen Rack fährst, ist es ein ganz anderes Ding als für ein normales Auto.
Dann muss sie in einen Escrow-Account bezahlen, den sie als Sicherheit nennt, welchen sie wiederum kontraktuell verpflichtet, zu füllen, obwohl es von der Trucking-Familie gehalten wird, in dem Fall, dass sie ever auf ihr Lease-to-Own-Agreement quittet.
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Chapter 4: How does Joe Biden contribute to the prison-industrial complex?
Collectively, these risks become inevitable. And in the case of this hit and run, the damage was minor. And so her deductible didn't even cover it. And she had to pay out of pocket. Lynn said, quote, If I need a repair done and I actually have the money, I just pay for it. But that is never the case. Instead, I got to get approval. Then I got to get a loan.
Then they charge extra fees for the loan. And then I have to use their garage to get it fixed. Plus, the whole time she's doing that, she's grounded with no income. And so a tiny accident can easily become a slippery slope into complete financial ruin. Lynn schätzt, dass sie letztes Jahr 200.000 Dollar gekostet hat und dass sie weniger als 17.000 Euro nach Hause genommen hat.
Und sie ist ein 14-jähriger Veteranen-Driver, der ihre Industrie ins und aus kennt, in ihrem Truck lebt und drei Wochen lang auf der Straße bleibt. Sie arbeitet mehr als 70 Stunden pro Woche in einer ständigen Vigilanz, schläft in vier- oder fünf-Hör-Bürsten und wacht auf für 3.30 Uhr Jobs.
Sie hat ihre Mutter für zwei Jahre nicht gesehen, weil sie nicht die Zeit aufhatte und nicht viele Sachen bekam, die sich mit ihrer Mutter befinden. Und Lore zeigt, dass diese 17.000-Dollar-Figur ein Niveau ist, das wahrscheinlich von Frieden geflogen ist. In der Woche, in der er mit ihr arbeitet, erhält Lynn einen täglichen Betrag für nur 100 Dollar, was sie die Woche vorher erhielt.
Und die Woche vor dem. Quote, It's in my contract, Lynn says. No matter how many expenses I have, I always have the right to a check for $100. So that is what I usually get. I've gotten pretty good at knowing how to stretch it. That is nothing.
Lore estimates that in the week he spent with her, she netted something closer to negative 150 after factoring in her cell phone bill, unanticipated repair and just the food she has to eat. One night, he overhears her on the phone asking for a cash advance from her future $100 paycheck so she can afford to eat dinner that night.
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Chapter 5: What is the dark side of the franchising industry?
The next morning, Lynn turns to him and says, I think I can get back in the black, maybe another three or four weeks of this. And it is completely unclear to him what she means, because she's losing money. Another three or four weeks like this, and she will be even deeper in debt, further beholden to Cargill.
Quote, or I could just run into a ladder on the interstate that tears my brake lines, she says, to complete what they are both thinking. Lynn, like most truckers, is homeless, sleeping exclusively in the cab of a truck, which she does not own and almost certainly never will. And she'll almost certainly lose it when she can no longer make her payments. Her Credit is shot. Her health is destroyed.
She can't eat most food because she lost all her teeth and her new dentures are not properly fitted, so it hurts to chew. Her obsession with Pepsi for calories shifts in Benjamins awareness into just absolute sadness when he learns this. Und all that, despite the fact that she's extremely good at her job, hypervigilant on the road and extremely hardworking.
A team player who never once in Benjamins presence complained about any task or hardship or even her whole lot in life. These things, he points out, are not unrelated. Das ist Lynn Riles, ein sehr erfahrener Trucker mit mehr als einer Dekade auf der Straße, der immer noch arbeitet, um ihren Truck zu bezahlen, der mehr wie ihre Gefängnis ist als ihre Form von Arbeit.
Aber jetzt, dass du ein bisschen Texture hast, was das Leben hinter dem Rad ist, wird die echte Dunkelheit in der Truckindustrie apparent, wenn du auszoomst. If you hadn't picked up on it yet, debt is the weapon used to shackle drivers to these trucks and to their contracts and hope is the lure that keeps them on the line.
Trucking recruiters frequently recruit from homeless shelters, soup kitchens, recovery wards and prison work release programs. Truckers also frequently come from minimum wage retail or construction or from serving in the military overseas. Recruiters promise guaranteed jobs, big pay, no experience required. You'll get a free one-way bus ticket, free hotel and food during your orientation.
But then, on the fourth day or so, you're given a contract to sign. And then, you're officially a student driver. And you suddenly have all the student debt to prove it. Dann haben sie eine neue enttäuschende Offerung. Nachdem du dein Kontrakt für Schule und Geld eingestellt hast, natürlich. Du könntest ein Bewohner-Operator sein, nicht nur ein Mitarbeiter.
Du kannst deinen eigenen Truck haben und den Meister deines eigenen Destinats sein. Du musst nicht einen einzigen Cent vorhanden zahlen. So bekommen sie dich. Sie fordern dich, einen literalen Truckload von Geld zu nehmen, der aus deinen zukünftigen Paychecks und Interessen genommen wird, bis du es bezahlst, was fast niemand jemals macht.
Instead, you get thrown into an impossible industry, where you work insane hours under high pressure and serious risk of death, all just to earn your minimum, which you quickly learn is $100 a week, assuming you don't spend it on food. If at any point you realize that this isn't your cup of tea, no problem. Because then you realize that that contract you signed, yeah, none of this was free.
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Chapter 6: How does debt affect truckers' livelihoods?
And a lot of these trainers have been driving less than six months themselves." She goes on to say, "...this is not far from sharecropping. It's debt bondage. It's sharecropping where instead of the field, they are tenants on wheels." So, that's one side of the story, a side most Americans don't know about.
But now I want to take it to a conversation Tucker Carlson and Ben Shapiro had about six years ago to voice another side of the story so we can really grasp the whole complexity of this issue.
Are you joking? In a second!
In a second. In other words, if I were president, when I say to DOT, Department of Transportation, we're not letting driverless trucks on the road. Period. Why? Really simple. Driving for a living is the single most common job for high school educated men in this country, in all 50 states. By the way, that's the same group whose wages have gone down by 11% over the past 30 years.
The social cost of eliminating their jobs in a 10-year span, 5-year span, 30-year span, is so high. And he's not wrong. Tucker has a great point.
I used to hold the same view. And in some ways I still do. Because already driverless semi-trucks are on the highways of America. And it's only a matter of years before this industry, one of the largest sectors of employment in America, is largely replaced by robots and AI. But Tucker uses a phrase that I want to highlight. He said, decent people living happy lives.
And if that were still true, I would completely agree. And that used to be true. But as progress has marched on, prices have ground down and margins have slimmed, more and more of this massive industry is preying on these largely high school educated people that are, for lack of a better phrase, extremely vulnerable to exploitation.
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Chapter 7: What parallels exist between trucking and sharecropping?
And they wind up where we left off, with Desiree Woods saying, quote, this is not far from sharecropping. It's debt bondage. It's sharecropping where instead of the field, they are tenants on wheels. Und hör mal, ich weiß nicht, was die Lösung ist. Ich weiß nicht, was ich davon machen soll. Aber zumindest jetzt habe ich ein bisschen mehr Kompassion für Trucker auf der Straße.
Und jetzt, dass ich weiß, was sie durchgehen, finde ich mich, ihnen mehr Raum zu geben, um ihren Job auf der Straße zu machen. Und einfach ein bisschen mehr Patient, wenn ich hinter einem 18-Wheeler warte, in der Passungslinie. Diese sind die Männer und Frauen, die die Welt funktionieren. Und sie haben ein ziemlich scharfes Gehen von Dingen.
And speaking of sharecropping, next we'll talk about plantations that operate today as prison labor camps, eerily similar to their slave master roots. But first, I want to take a minute to tell you about ground news. Let's be honest. Untertitelung aufgrund der Audioqualität nicht möglich. Das ist das, was die meisten Plattformen nicht zeigen.
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Chapter 8: What are the implications of driverless trucks on employment?
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Parasiten verursachen Inflammation, Nervenverlust und langfristige kognitive Verlust. Vielen Dank für's Zuschauen. Vielen Dank. So, now that we've talked about sharecropping on wheels, let's talk about the slaves that still work the plantations to this day. A lot of people don't know that the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery in the United States, didn't actually abolish slavery.
It just put one very simple condition on the practice. In the very first line it says, quote, neither slavery nor involuntary servitude except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted shall exist within the United States or any place subject to their jurisdiction. And so we get the prison industrial complex.
And although many people have contributed to this modern slavery and the racial bias of its selection process, Perhaps no one has contributed more to it than this man, Joseph R. Biden. In 1986, Joe Biden authored and championed the Anti-Drug Abuse Act, which, among other things, imposed extremely harsh penalties on crack cocaine use versus powdered cocaine.
The penalties for crack cocaine were 100 times stricter than for regular powdered cocaine. So the minimum sentencing was five years for five grams of crack. Or five years for 500 grams of powdered cocaine. You might notice in the snippet from the New York Times here that it says this was an amendment to the 1984 minimum sentencing bill. Joe Biden championed that bill too.
In fact, all throughout the 70s and 80s, Joe Biden was at the front of the charge to expand the power of the prison system. And he authored numerous acts to expand prison populations that were written in ways that clearly skewed towards black Americans. I probably don't need to remind you that it was our own CIA that was flooding poor black neighborhoods with crack cocaine at the time.
And so, from 1973, when these laws started passing and prisons started expanding until 2009, when this trend peaked, the imprisonment rate in America increased sevenfold. We went from just a couple hundred thousand people in prison to over 1.5 million. Except by some data sets, it's over 2 million and has been since 2005, depending on who you trust.
When you look up official Department of Justice fact sheets, though, they conveniently show the data going back just to 2009, when prison populations had peaked. So it looks in this graph like prison populations are decreasing. What a convenient way to present it. You see, they just show this last little decrease at the end there highlighted in pink. Pay no attention to Joe Biden's legacy.
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