[erichocean]

> If drivers spend much time loading and unloading, and not getting paid, the amount paid per mile required to attract drivers will rise.

Actually, logic would indicate that it has already happened. Every industry pays people the least amount that it can reliably obtain labor and/or reliably profit from their employment. Trucking is no different.

[crdoconnor]

Not every industry tries to create such an opaque payment structure.

Industries that do that sort of thing tend to suffer in aggregate because you get a 'bad money drives out the good' effect, similar to used cars.

The same thing happened in finance (nobody touches the CDO market now - it would have disappeared entirely were it not for government life support).