Retards are in charge of everything.
Don't get me wrong. A lot of the workers are also retarded but there are also lots of talented individuals.
But 100% of the management at all companies I have worked at are retarded narcissists that actively destroy the company and spend all day jerking each other off in endless meetings.
And there are so many fucking managers now. Every tiny department has like 3-4 managers and nobody knows what they fucking do all day. You bring an issue up to them or something that would improve the work situation and they look at you like you just killed their dog.
They also like to pretend they are doing something positive so they will implement some bullshit procedure like making everyone fill out safety cards every day and then draw fake graphs about how this made the workplace a gorillion percent safer. Its all a fucking clown circus.
I think part of the problem in my case is that my worst experiences out of my three longest running jobs were both at very small companies. I went in thinking smaller would equal more chill and less oversight. This was not true at all at company 1, and very true at company 2 in an operational sense, but company 2 had that social clique dynamic way stronger. If you didn't suck the right dicks, or slighted the wrong person, you were now on borrowed time. It was full of boomers who had been there for decades and young people who had literally been raised in the company (children of the drivers.)
The company where I lasted the longest and actually left on my own terms was one that was very corporate and zogged, and the boss was a guy who was super jaded and low affect. He'd climbed the corporate ladder while resenting the corporate atmosphere. He was a dick at points and sometimes egregiously negligent on safety matters, but he was actually a solid boss on the points being discussed. I argued with him head to head multiple times, which included instances where I outmaneuvered him, and that never converted to him making a move to get rid of me. And when I had an interpersonal conflict with a senior driver he actually mediated it impartially.
Ultimately, I think it really does just come down to luck of the draw on what kind of boss you get, but in my experience corporate environments are actually easier to be left alone in for trucking even with all the BS, driver cams, etc. Because it's so large and soulless, it's harder for managers to get personally invested and try running people's lives like they're a little dysfunctional family.
It's also worth mentioning that trucking is a *very* low IQ industry, both intellectually and emotionally, and being unapologetically articulate reads as alienating at best, and threatening at worst. I had my last boss snap at me "How about you tell me what that means? Since you're obviously so much smarter than me." after I used the term *non sequitur.* I don't really find interpersonal peers at these jobs.