Trucking Industry Poll

[roadscholar88]

1. What do you think is the main problem/concern facing the trucking industry today?
*Driver Shortage
*HOS Regulation
*CSA Scores
*Pricing Competitiveness
*Fuel Prices


2. Are you in support or opposition of the current HOS regulations?

*Support

*Opposition


3. Should Electronic On-board Recorders become mandatory?

*Yes

*No


4. What is the main influence for driver turnover?

*Compensation/benefits

*Home Time

*Equipment and equipment maintenance

*Respect/Communication/Problem Resolution in the work environment


5. In the next 6 months, do you see LTL pricing:

*Increasing

*Decreasing

*Remaining the same


6. In the next 6 months, do you see Truckload pricing:

*Increasing

*Decreasing


7. In the next 6 months, do you see LTL capacity:

*Increasing

*Decreasing

*Remaining the same


8. In the next 6 months, do you see Truckload capacity:

*Increasing

*Decreasing

*Remaining the same

 

[RickyRicardo]

1. What do you think is the main problem/concern facing the trucking industry today?

Excessive government regulation and taxation.

 

[Guardrail]

I'll have to wait until I get on the laptop to answer this one.

Guardrail

 

[sharpshooter]

1. What do you think is the main problem/concern facing the trucking industry today?
*Driver Shortage
*HOS Regulation
*CSA Scores
*Pricing Competitiveness
*Fuel Prices
None of the above


2. Are you in support or opposition of the current HOS regulations?

*Support

*Opposition
We have rules to live by, shippers don't, that's the problem


3. Should Electronic On-board Recorders become mandatory?

*Yes

*No
they create as many problems as they intend to correct. Trucks on shoulders a half mile long past ramps are 1.


4. What is the main influence for driver turnover?

*Compensation/benefits

*Home Time

*Equipment and equipment maintenance

*Respect/Communication/Problem Resolution in the work environment
all of the above, and then some


5. In the next 6 months, do you see LTL pricing:

*Increasing

*Decreasing

*Remaining the same
increasing but, wages not so much


6. In the next 6 months, do you see Truckload pricing:

*Increasing

*Decreasing
same as above


7. In the next 6 months, do you see LTL capacity:

*Increasing

*Decreasing

*Remaining the same


8. In the next 6 months, do you see Truckload capacity:

*Increasing

*Decreasing

*Remaining the same

Your questions are more for management people IMO.
Look into what you need to do to get a CDL with all the endorsements (including Hazmat), what your pay/ schedule would be for the first couple of years after, and you'll understand why there is a so-called driver shortage.

 

[TedWard]

I've noticed the questions on your three threads are very difficult. After a hard days work I'm sorry but I don't have the energy to address such issues (I'm full of it I know), and though the questions may seem relevant, I wonder what is this poll being used for? Do your questions actually serve a purpose? You or someone with an identical user name has posted the same questions on other truck driving forums.

Then I realized roadscholar is an anagram for school radar.

Are you a spy? Are you the devil?

I ask these questions because I don't expect a reply.

My brain hurts again.

 

[sharpshooter]

He can get all is answers by reading some stupid logistics magazine, they frame things the same way- non driver friendly..lol.

For example..the question about fuel prices being a concern. That is such a myth, companies make a boat load on the fuel surcharge. The consumer pays for it but, they don't have a clue that they are. So, the answer would be NO..let fuel go as high as hell. The companies are still, in effect, paying pocket change for it, once you figure in what they're getting in fuel surcharge. Look up a companies best qtr and I'll bet you it was when fuel prices were the highest, as well as the surcharge

 

[Airbrakes]

1. What do you think is the main problem/concern facing the trucking industry today?
*Driver Shortage
*HOS Regulation
*CSA Scores
*Pricing Competitiveness
*Fuel Prices

All of the above

2. Are you in support or opposition of the current HOS regulations?

*Support

*Opposition

Opposition. The FMCSA thinks that one size fits all, when reality is far from that.

3. Should Electronic On-board Recorders become mandatory?

For larger fleets, yes. For mom and pop shops, no. ELOGs can be manipulated just as easily as paper, so putting one in an O/O's truck is frivolous.

4. What is the main influence for driver turnover?

*Compensation/benefits

*Home Time

*Equipment and equipment maintenance

*Respect/Communication/Problem Resolution in the work environment

All of the above.

5. In the next 6 months, do you see LTL pricing:

*Increasing

*Decreasing

*Remaining the same

Increasing

6. In the next 6 months, do you see Truckload pricing:

*Increasing

*Decreasing

Increasing

7. In the next 6 months, do you see LTL capacity:

*Increasing

*Decreasing

*Remaining the same

Increasing. Eventually LTL will be a thing of the past.

8. In the next 6 months, do you see Truckload capacity:

*Increasing

*Decreasing

*Remaining the same

Increasing

 

[sharpshooter]

Eventually LTL will be a thing of the past.

Is this a typo? you do realize, in this day and age of Co's keeping a lower stock on hand, it results in MORE LTL shipments, not less. Half the CRST's you see on the road are pulling LTL loads ya know

 

[Airbrakes]

Is this a typo? you do realize, in this day and age of Co's keeping a lower stock on hand, it results in MORE LTL shipments, not less. Half the CRST's you see on the road are pulling LTL loads ya know

That wasn't a typo. LTL shipments and freight may be increasing, but that doesn't mean there's enough drivers and trucks to haul it.

 

[RacerX69]

What is it with all these fishing posts anyway?

Here it is in a nutshell.

The wages for truck drivers have not increased in the last 30 years.

But.

The cost of living has.

And the amount that trucking companies charge their customers has.

And the amount that trucking companies earn annually has.

Yes, trucks cost more today than they did 30 years ago.

Yes, fuel and maintenance cost more than it did 30 years ago.

But figuring for inflation the costs are actually lower today than they were 30 years ago.

So why have the wages not kept pace with inflation?

Figuring for inflation, truck driver's wages have actually gone down.

 

[autocar65]

What is it with all these fishing posts anyway?

Here it is in a nutshell.

The wages for truck drivers have not increased in the last 30 years.

But.

The cost of living has.

And the amount that trucking companies charge their customers has.

And the amount that trucking companies earn annually has.

Yes, trucks cost more today than they did 30 years ago.

Yes, fuel and maintenance cost more than it did 30 years ago.

But figuring for inflation the costs are actually lower today than they were 30 years ago.

So why have the wages not kept pace with inflation?

Figuring for inflation, truck driver's wages have actually gone down.

New ttechnology will make paying a driver a thing of the past and even if it doesn't there are future steering wheel holders pouring over our southern boarders anyway. ..

 

[RacerX69]

. . . . . . . and even if it doesn't there are future steering wheel holders pouring over our southern boarders anyway. ..

Don't leave out the ones pouring in from Eastern Europe.

Знаешь, что я имею в виду, Jellybean?

Ви отримуєте мій дрейф?

 

[autocar65]

Don't leave out the ones pouring in from Eastern Europe.

Знаешь, что я имею в виду, Jellybean?

Ви отримуєте мій дрейф?

And the turbin sporting cowboys from Bakersfield CA. They come into our yard and spend two hundred and fifty thousand minutes backing in. But you can't say anything...No no no.