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As you pay truckers more at some point it doesn’t make economic sense to hire them. Some jobs are cost centers others are profit centers is one way of looking at it. Another factor is industries like trucking have very little differentiation so it’s a race to the bottom.

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As you increase driver pay delivery costs increase. If the shortage was real it would mean deliveries are not being made that would have happened at an increase in delivery cost.

The goods being in location A rather than location B is the value add.

Logistics is a profit centre, not a cost.

Of course the actual act of shipping the goods is a profit center. But payroll is a cost center in every industry I'm aware of. You can't just 10x your shipping costs in order to pay your truckers 10x the salary and expect to remain in business.

Why does debate always turn into this? No one suggested much more than a ~1.5xish pay increase yet the response is "you expect them to pay 10x the salary and remain in business??"?

What is the goal of just exaggerating and debating a thing no one says versus just debating what people are actually saying?

The payroll costs are usually included in each “centre”

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