| Comment | Well...yeah actually. I volunteer with one of our unions and a lot of drivers have to come in for help on some pretty basic stuff. A lot of them struggle to fill in their licensing application forms, some can't do their tax returns, some don't even fully understand what self employment really means. It's sad to say and see, but this particular trade is comprised of relatively low educated people with not a lot of options in life. A large number of drivers come into this game down on their luck and scrape by from day one. It's hard to get ahead of the curve when you start out with very little and there's not much opportunity for any kind of upward mobility within the trade. If the starting point is get a loan from friend to buy your first week in, then it's very likely they will be trapped in a weekly cycle of just making enough to buy another week and live off what is left. |
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