But the problem may also stem from the way employers structure the employment relationship they have with truckers, which is something they can do a lot about. As the Journal reported, Steve Viscelli, a sociologist at the University of Pennsylvania who drove a truck while gathering material for his book The Big Rig: Trucking and the Decline of the American Dream (University of California Press, 2016), blames trucking’s inability to staff up properly on “an industry labor model that relies heavily on inexper
Source: The Downside of the Gig Economy