While the hours issue is important and the fact they came out with this prior to contract time with the International’s support is significant, what is really telling and something I would like for people to think about is the Non-CDL provision along with the announcement of the new logistics division.
From an outside perspective looking back in since I left over a year ago, I have a different perspective to this. There is a changing trend over all in ground transportation that many of us more traditional and I dare say old timers fail to recognize. I state clearly that this trend is not in any right the better way of things, but it is a trend that is coming regardless.
Many talk about automated vehicles both in heavy transport as well in transportation of the human nature such as Rideshare. Yes eventually this will be realized, but it is still a ways off, and many factors need to be considered even then.
For heavy transportation the real target would be long haul where we currently have the hardest time meeting demand with the shortage of drivers. Local is an entirely different animal and would be much more difficult to achieve for all the factors that we as veteran drivers know.
This being said, the new model that is trending under the radar for many is what I will label for better or worse the Amazon/Uber/Messenger model. For local work this is key with the inability to attract qualified CDL drivers and potential drivers to enter into the market at CDL status. Many in the younger generation for reasons that very are not seeking to be CDL holders, while at the same time still performing many of the same operations that traditionally done by CDL holders.
This is most noted in some of these sectors- air freight companies for years have operated vehicles that fall under air brake and gross vehicle weight requirements that require CDL qualifications. Messanger services since the 90’s have increased the number of contractors that provide similar St.Truck service as traditional companies. With the explosion of what is labeled the gig economy and advent of Amazon, the FINAL mile market is the fastest growing sector currently. Sure those of us that have done LTL P&D have always been that final mile sector, but when companies such as Schneider are attempting to crack into it, take notice.
Guys I want to clearly state this post is not to demean the Union or anything of that sort. It’s an analytic analysts that many will instantly attack and I get that. But gentleman I hate to say it the Unions are not as attractive to all. The changing demographics of many factors in ground transportation and in general the way people have come to view traditional work is in flux right now. I am not saying it’s for the better because I truly do not think that it is!
From an outside perspective looking back in since I left over a year ago, I have a different perspective to this. There is a changing trend over all in ground transportation that many of us more traditional and I dare say old timers fail to recognize. I state clearly that this trend is not in any right the better way of things, but it is a trend that is coming regardless.
Many talk about automated vehicles both in heavy transport as well in transportation of the human nature such as Rideshare. Yes eventually this will be realized, but it is still a ways off, and many factors need to be considered even then.
For heavy transportation the real target would be long haul where we currently have the hardest time meeting demand with the shortage of drivers. Local is an entirely different animal and would be much more difficult to achieve for all the factors that we as veteran drivers know.
This being said, the new model that is trending under the radar for many is what I will label for better or worse the Amazon/Uber/Messenger model. For local work this is key with the inability to attract qualified CDL drivers and potential drivers to enter into the market at CDL status. Many in the younger generation for reasons that very are not seeking to be CDL holders, while at the same time still performing many of the same operations that traditionally done by CDL holders.
This is most noted in some of these sectors- air freight companies for years have operated vehicles that fall under air brake and gross vehicle weight requirements that require CDL qualifications. Messanger services since the 90’s have increased the number of contractors that provide similar St.Truck service as traditional companies. With the explosion of what is labeled the gig economy and advent of Amazon, the FINAL mile market is the fastest growing sector currently. Sure those of us that have done LTL P&D have always been that final mile sector, but when companies such as Schneider are attempting to crack into it, take notice.
Guys I want to clearly state this post is not to demean the Union or anything of that sort. It’s an analytic analysts that many will instantly attack and I get that. But gentleman I hate to say it the Unions are not as attractive to all. The changing demographics of many factors in ground transportation and in general the way people have come to view traditional work is in flux right now. I am not saying it’s for the better because I truly do not think that it is!