Truck Stop (or the Repeal of the Truck Acts 1831 and 1960)

A sorry modern fable from Aesop -  
A massive nationwide wealth extraction -
That's how we were shafted by the Truck stop.
 
For over one-fifty years no ad-hock
pay but cash after negotiation.
A sorry modern fable from Aesop
 
telling how the law chang'd giving us a sop
for our hard work in this new transaction.
That's how we were shafted by the Truck stop.
 
The Wages Act '86 did the swap
of value - without any distraction.
A sorry modern fable from Aesop
 
showing our ignorance for the rights drop,
and using our lack of education.
That's how we were shafted by the Truck stop,
 
where work does not yield cash our rightful crop:
we are forc'd to take a chose in action.
A sorry modern fable from Aesop -
that's how we were shafted by the Truck stop.