the article's author, brett murphy, joins me from naples, florida to discuss this. tell us what's happening to these truckers? >> well, the companies found a loophole in the labor law. by calling these guys independent contractors instead of employees, no real rules apply. they can kind of do whatever they want-- or they think they can. so what they've been able to do was sort of find a large population of truck drivers, mostly immigrants, about 16,000 immigrant drivers. and when the state told these companies that they had to use newer, cleaner trucks, instead of paying for it themselves, they came up with this idea of lease-to-own contracts, lease-to-own agreements. and when the drivers came into work one day, just like they had been for decades, the company said, "if you want to keep your job here, if you want to keep driving, you need to sign this contract." they didn't translate it. they didn't explain it. and the guys thought that they would just be getting a new truck after five or seven years, and if they worked hard, they'd get good pay, just like they'd al