Keep on wokin', keep on brokin'

The CEO of one of the country’s largest trucking companies made a big splash just over a year ago, when he declared the trucking industry racist, bigoted, and in need of enlightenment. And shocker, he was just the guy to enlighten us.

Barely a year later the company is in chaos. It’s losing money, laying off employees, and spreading its layoffs out such that the mass dismissal of its employees doesn’t violate federal employee-notification requirements.

We’ll take a look at the recent problems, but first let’s take a visit back to summer of 2021, when US Xpress CEO Eric Fuller accused his industry and his employees of being bigots, sexists, homophobes, and racists.