Collins told Business Insider that he found jobs hauling freight in locations he needed to get to. He was able to earn money and save up for the campaign.
"I believe that workers should have more freedom and more say in how their workplaces run. And there's no one in this country who kind of understands that more than someone who's an owner-operator truck driver," Collins told The Cooper Point Journal. "All the money, the wealth that I generate with my labor goes to me."
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"My 'good trucking story' is something that repeats all over the country, all the time. A lot of people don't know this, but truck drivers' only workplace protections are 'hours of service,' so our days are limited to 14 hours on duty (with 11 hours driving max). I team-drove with my wife, meaning our day was 28 hours long for years," Collins told Law and Crime in December.
He told Business Insider that he's not sure if he'd be able to go back to trucking if he doesn't win election.
"I think the experience of a lot of truck drivers is very similar to mine where the government has failed them at every turn," Collins told FleetOwner. "When it comes to needing a college education, almost every truck driver saw that as something where the government failed them. We have millions of truck drivers and almost all of them are people who couldn't afford to go to college or couldn't afford to go into other industries. So, truck driving was, for a lot of us, including me, the only other option aside from maybe the military."
Read more about Collins' campaign here.
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