Robert Crumb will be 71 years old this August 30
I would assume the shortage is due to the 9 billion government regulations a driver has to deal with?
Force enough drivers out and you end up with a new job Americans won’t do.
Long haul driving doesn’t pay. The wage has been stagnant forever. I have a Class A CDL with doubles/triples and tanker endorsements. Why in the name of all that is holy would I want to drive longhaul when I can get 80% more pay in a local job because I can actually get out of the cab and work when needed? Plus the medical card requirements are getting to the point of retarded.
Not to worry as the next round of truckers will have Mexico and Saudi Arabia license plates.
Truck drivers are treated horribly such that they have continuous turnover. They are paid low, demanded to violate laws to drive more, and they are treated like dirt.
I am not a trucker, but I know people who are and they are treated extremely poorly.
“Drivers, as of last year, were making, based on real dollars, somewhere between 6-8% less than they were in 1990…and working 70 hours a week.”
I think I see where the problem might be.
As we become “Stoner Nation” w/ “mayorjwanna” legalization / decriminalization, how many will not be able to pass the pee test and not be material to hold or maintain a CDL. And by extension, does that decrease the pool of potential drivers?
And yet we have the lowest labor participation rate in 45 years
The government and the Fed are truly screwing up the economy and society
That’s what happens when you regulate the independents out of business and raise the bar on hiring so high very few qualify and then pay per mileage wages equal to $6.50 per hour.
Supply and demand should take care of things. Maybe that and being allowed to haul bigger loads.
One thing i admit I don’t understand; I’m not saying that rhetorically—I really don’t understand it, because I don’t know the industry.
Why would it be in trucking company’s advantage to push drivers to work overly long hours? You get a few more contracts because you can deliver stuff faster, but if just one of your drivers falls asleep at the wheel, the millions in lost goods, driver insurance hikes, workers’ compensation rate hikes, and potential lawsuits would hardly seem to make it worth it.
Robert Crumb will be 71 years old this August 30
The hell you say. I just drove on a college visit to Ohio and could barely tolerate the huge aggressive trucks all over the place. BEE ESS I say.
Another reason I am not getting a smaller car, will keep the 10 year old Honda Pilot.
Most long haul needs to be moved from truck to train.
When they pay more, they will get more. Unless, of course, they hire Mexicans instead...
Areas of employment that suffer from shortages of available labor to fill them, aren’t paying enough.
Its really that simple.
This is just code for we want cheap immigrant labor.