'We're not going to work for free': Truck drivers protesting plummeting pay rates are 'slow-rolling' and stopping traffic across the US, 29 April 2020

Truck drivers in three different states have launched demonstrations this month as pay plummets.

The rate of moving goods via truck has fallen to the lowest levels seen since 2009, according to leading freight payment provider Cass Information Systems...

Even though [jobs] moving medical supplies [have] become more hectic than ever, rates are crashing — and for some, the pay isn't enough to cover the expenses of fuel or truck maintenance. "Rates are going to be so bad that truck drivers are not going to move their trucks," [Thomas Ramirez, truck driver] told Business Insider. "We're not going to work for free."