Maybe somebody who has been long time in this business can explain me why drivers always wanted. I mean every week across the country hundreds of people getting new CDL's. I do realize that fall out maybe big because let say OTR is a lifestyle that not everybody can handle, not just a job, but still why drivers are always wanted? I may understand that this industry may be growing, but not that much! Are there some other reasons that make people to drop out of this business?

Thanks.

Becouse company's are like a box of chocolates,you never know if the next one is going to taste any better.And then you find out it tastes like crap just like the last one

exactly. thats it in a nutshell.

that makes people go from one company to another, but not quit the industry. If so many new drivers come weekly and it's still not enough it means that a lot people quit. So I'm trying to find what is the reason for quiting.

we stay in the industry for so many different reasons. not to mention the cdl was earned and not just given to us. people quit trucking jobs just like people quit other jobs. false hope and lies by companies gets old and then hearing another company telling you what you want to hear you go to them and find out they are no different than the one you just left. its not good to job jump but some people do it.

Plus I think a lot of it is people have a misconception of what trucking is. When they get in it they move around to look for a better fit. Lots of reasons. In trucking it seems like no job is as good as your last. Many move around or go back to their old driving job.

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My childhood dream of becoming a truck driver turned into a nightmare!

drivers "up and quit" on a daily basis................for various reasons. i had a driver do just that, and i couldn't be happier as he was a pain in the butt, and to top it off, he had only worked for us for 3 days.....!! good ridance i say. he wanted the job, it was nights, but then he was saying that he didn't need too much money, or too many miles, and he wanted to "retire" with his great saftey reccord intact, but YET, HE APPLIED FOR THE JOB....!!! go figure................

then, the very next day, we had a "temp driver", that did that same run, and the first run was supposed to be a total of 4.5 hours ROUND TRIP....!!

he did it in 7 hours (total time), 2 hours, up, 2 hours back (4 hours total, or 4.5 for a "first timer"), remember this for later. i gave him detailed directions, he got there, but then "decided" to use his Magellan (or whatever), and he followed that, and this is where he took 5.5 HOURS TO GET BACK.....not a simple 2 hours.............!!

when he got back i asked him if snow or ice held him up, he said no, he got lost following his "Magellan"..............!!

i told him, "the directions i gave you up, you should have simply "reversed" them for coming back"..........

he said, "i could have done that"........?? and he was SERIOUS.......!!!

he then left for his second run, back to that same place, this time, i would have thought he was "smarter", boy was i wrong. he was supposed to get fuel at a 24 hour fueling depot, using a keypad entry. he WAS GIVEN ALL THE INFO.............guess what...........he stayed there 4 HOURS because he couldn't figure it out, and HE NEVER CALLED FOR HELP....!!

he got back so late, the day driver was now 2.5 hours behind, as this "idiot" was using his rig.

that "temp driver" was fired from us, and his employer fired him as well.........

this is yet (an extreme) reason why "drivers are always needed"...........

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and yet another reason why "drivers are always wanted" is because some of us become supervisors/dispatchers, as we want off the roads...........so a need for drivers is available at some companies.

but with that idiot "temp" i had as a driver(??), and me being a supervisor/dispatcher now, sometimes i wish i WERE driving again..........

The reasons I see are drivers jumping from company to company, and newbees that don't have a clue about what trucking is about and get fed up and quit.

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I think that is a big part of it. About 70% of newly licenced drivers leave the industry once they get a taste of life on the road. For many of them, I think they realize that it is not all fun and games like they thought, some just can't handle the job.

Yea, it would be nice if some of these points of interest had truck parking.

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