Deregulation broke trucking.
44 years is long enough.
The American Fair Freight Transportation Reform Act restores what 1980 stripped away: transparent rates, fair driver pay, and honest brokerage. Add your name before it reaches the committee floor.
What deregulation actually did
The Motor Carrier Act of 1980 promised efficiency. It delivered a race to the bottom: freight rates set in secret, brokers taking 30–80% of the invoice while the driver who hauled the load can't see the numbers, and wages that collapsed so far that trucking went from a middle-class career to a job with 90–120% annual turnover.
When freight moves at a loss, corners get cut. Exhausted drivers. Deferred maintenance. Predatory lease-purchase traps. Ghost brokers and double-brokered loads. A supply chain that lives one shock away from breakdown. This is not a market working — it's a market failing, 44 years and counting.
What AFFTRA does
Not a return to the ICC. A modern framework that keeps markets competitive above a fair floor — grounded in Commerce Clause authority upheld for decades.
Read the full memoThe full case, ready for committee staff
The complete memo — legislative history, constitutional grounding, economic analysis, and the four reform pillars — prepared for the House Committee on Transportation & Infrastructure and the Senate Commerce Committee.
The Petition
America's supply chain cannot be safe, reliable, or secure when freight is forced to move at a loss.
Unsafe roads, exhausted drivers, poorly maintained equipment, stolen freight, ghost brokers, and shell companies are not isolated problems — they are symptoms of a system that rewards speed, opacity, and desperation over safety and accountability.
The American Fair Freight Transportation Reform Act (AFFTRA) restores what deregulation stripped away:
When freight moves above cost: equipment gets maintained, drivers get rest, fraud collapses, theft drops, delivery becomes predictable, and public roads become safer.
We are calling on lawmakers, regulators, and industry leaders to act now — not after the next supply chain crisis, not after the next fatal crash, and not after the next wave of theft and fraud.
Sign this petition to demand safer highways, a secure supply chain, and an end to exploitation in American trucking.
AFFTRA does not control markets. It restores order. AFFTRA does not slow commerce. It makes commerce safe.
The roads we share — and the supply chains we depend on — deserve better.
Mission Statement: To restore truth, fairness, and freedom to the American trucking industry by exposing corruption, capping exploitation, and empowering drivers — while using business, outreach, and bold advocacy to MAKE TRUCKING GREAT AGAIN.
"This is not profits versus people. It's safety versus chaos. AFFTRA doesn't control markets — it restores order. It doesn't slow commerce — it makes commerce safe."
Common questions
No — only the proven pillars return: transparency, fair pay, broker oversight. No rate bureaus, no entry bureaucracy.
Yes — interstate rates, transportation, and labor standards are settled Commerce Clause territory.
David McCown, trucking advocate, with the National Carrier & Driver Coalition — drivers and small carriers nationwide.
Your name joins the petition delivered to both congressional committees — volume is what earns a hearing.
It preserves the legitimate brokerage role at a fair 3% — and ends the incentive to skim.
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