Yeah I wish these articles wouldn't lead with the nonsense the companies claim. A thousand bucks isn't really a signing bonus worth the name, and if the median pay is $42,000 that means half of drivers are earning less than that. Even mentioning the high end of driver pay without heavy emphasis on the typical reality is misleading to the extreme. It's clear the conditions could be greatly improved, along with the pay, training, and other benefits. For a political culture that loves framing things with Econ 101, there's a major blind spot for simple supply and demand that strikes the writers and editors of these sorts of articles.