Driver Shortage Myth!

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The Driver Shortage Myth | The Legal Examiner

[albag]

No surprises there! If drivers are compensated fairly there is no REAL shortage.

[LEHIGH vALLEY]

DUH! This is why you see people with green cards who can't speak AMERICAN driving a truck!
Hell if I had to put up with the B.S. these big riggers do I would be on welfare too!

DO YOU WORK FOR FREE? WHAT THE HELL MAKES YOU THINK I SHOULD?

[tutone710]

There is a shortage of qualified drivers.

[SuperCourse]

Good article, right on the money.

[zigzag1149]

I went to the stores today, they where well stocked, no shortage of anything.

For decades the industry has been complaining about a driver shortage and I've never heard of a business having to send everyone home because they where out of supplies and couldn't get a truck to haul something in or to haul something out.

While at the store there was a cashier shortage, I had to wait in line. They should pay them by percentage or by the item scanned and put cots next to the cash registers so they can live to work and rest during slow times while waiting for customers and let them go home once every 3 weeks for 2 1/2 days. They could also lease purchase the cash registers to them.

[SickWithIt]

There is a shortage of qualified drivers.

If there is a shortage,we can thank CSA,Dac and Mvr report
system for it.Government local and national coming down
hard on CDL holders.

[pilot108]

I went to the stores today, they where well stocked, no shortage of anything.

For decades the industry has been complaining about a driver shortage and I've never heard of a business having to send everyone home because they where out of supplies and couldn't get a truck to haul something in or to haul something out.

While at the store there was a cashier shortage, I had to wait in line. They should pay them by percentage or by the item scanned and put cots next to the cash registers so they can live to work and rest during slow times while waiting for customers and let them go home once every 3 weeks for 2 1/2 days. They could also lease purchase the cash registers to them.

Great post. Lets go farther though and make the top management of the trucking companies live under their desks for 7 to 14 days 24 hrs at a time. How long would it be before we heard of a shortage there? I'll even give them access to a shower every 2 to 3 days. Since they will be required to stay under the desk for 10 hrs a day we can cut their compensation by 40%, and we'll even give them 5.00 dollars a week to clean their own bedding.

[autocar65]

There is a shortage of qualified drivers.

Companies do not like drivers with a brain. I spent 4 years at a company out hauling everyone that went before me. The record was 7 loads in one 15 hour day when I got there, when I left I had raised the bar to 9 loads in one day. For this, I made at least 75 cents an hour less than those that I was training. Once trained they went elsewhere. After being handed the title "Big Money" and giving the owner 4 years to give me a raise, I quit. Now it takes him four drivers working two shifts hauling about 4 loads apiece, time an a half after 40 and these boys have put a saddle on the time clock and are riding it into the sunset. Smart....very smart.

Keep the line moving. Get into trucking young and stupid and get eliminated on the other end when your high blood pressure rats you out. You may die in a truck working for an outlaw company that will hire anyone with a pulse. Keep the line moving. Drivers are a commodity that have become expendable, most companies wouldn't know a good driver if they smacked them on the head with a dead Carp!

Good drivers are hard to find, even harder to keep. But being good doesn't pay a dime more than being a bad driver.

[BIG R GUY]

No surprises there! If drivers are compensated fairly there is no REAL shortage.

If the companies that have the 80- 90 percent turnover rate yearly would cut out the money paid to radio, TV, and newspaper adds, trucker magazine adds, the recruiters, driving schools, the costly hiring process, the phony bonus pledges, and give it to their current drivers in a pay raise, with decent benefits, they may just hang onto the drivers they have. Gotta love those adds, "Make up to $37,000, the first year." Try raising a family, pay for a house, and car with that. It is more like you, " you will be luckey to make up to 37000 the first 5 years, and then after that you may make 40."