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No, it is effectively as it has previously been but with more cost cutting involved so those companies can keep trading. The populace still need their food, drink, consumables, furniture, toys; if not more so now.
But people also want those cheaply, and to do that they have to pay less to those that produce and transport those goods.
The companies find ways to work the system as much as they can. I have heard that the companies that offer the warehousing as well as transport are in a better position as the former earns more money than the latter.
In the effort to reduce costs, wastage and financial drain and yet increase productivity will always have it’s crunch points somewhere.
As this is a forum for drivers, then we all know where the crunch point is. Surely as a pre-cursor to this thread you would have read up about how much and what drivers on here are paid, the hours they do, the reason they do it, the stress and ill health as a result and those that feel that it would be a better life for them to find some other work.
By comparison, a lab tech I know who works with electronics and electrics for the transport industry within their technical services side gets paid £10ph but only works a 40 hour week. He goes to work at 8am and gets home for 5pm, is horrified that working more than 40 hours a week would be too much for him and that such things shouldn’t happen but yet we do it, and I do similar hours.
As others have said, transport still needs to happen. Everything needs to keep turning and those companies that fold will no doubt have others jumping in to take up the slack…