The Trucking Industry Needs More Drivers. Maybe It Needs to Pay More? Duh...

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  2. Puppage

    Puppage Road Train Member

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    "The company’s performance is closely tied to the nation’s economy, which has been looking increasingly sunny lately."

    Typical NY Slimes BS.
     
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  3. HalpinUout

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    The article mentions that in 2013 driver wages were down 6% compared to a decade ago.... Enough said
     
  4. Freddy57

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    All articles like this serve to do is build the case in peoples minds for the Mega carriers to import more foreign labor on the H1B slave plan. The big carriers don't need to pay more, all they need to do is make the case for more H1B's and they will carry on with slave wages. Slavery may have been abolished in 1865, but it was revived in 1994 by Bill Clinton and the GATT he signed in the dead of night authorizing H1B's for any industry that could show a shortage of American labor.
     
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  5. AppalachianTrucker

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    That directly contradicts the premise of the statement by Swift. They cannot grow because they don't have enough drivers no matter what the economy does.

    Leave it to journamalists to screw and twist the message.

    Leave your family behind for $425 a week!
    Go be a truck driver! The romance of the Peelot awaits!:biggrin_2559:

    Edit: FTA: "In other words, Swift had plenty of customers wanting to ship goods. But in a time of elevated unemployment, it somehow couldn’t find enough drivers to take those goods from Point A to Point B. How is that possible?"

    Um, could it be the laughable pay tendered for the insane hours required to do the job?

    Plus, HOS rules have flatlined low-end trucker pay as well.
    Those rules cost companies around 18 percent in productivity.
     
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  6. Lepton1

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    I thought the article and the comments were fairly accurate and informative. It will be a good thing to see wages and working conditions improve, and not only for trucking.
     
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  7. AppalachianTrucker

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    This last recession was incredibly long and deep and tough for everyone -- a whole decade of lost effort.
    But wages have been flat since about 1980.
     
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  8. fuzzeymateo

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    Not going to happen! As long as the Swifts, CR's etc. etc. continue to receive corporate welfare wages will continue to be depressed. If you want better pay and quality of life make all companies big and small compete on the same level. That's what is called Capitalism, what we have now is not. I find the article interesting how Swift talks about "their driver shortage." If they paid a fair wage and cared about their people they wouldn't have this problem or it would be very limited. But then again, they get their corporate welfare so turnover rate isn't a concern to them, it's actually a benefit since the more bodies they cycle in and out of a truck the more "training money" they receive. Shameless!
     
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  9. Stlguy

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    Exactly right. The big companies have it set up so no one of quality will work for them yet they want to cry the blues about a shortage of quality people. It's only going to get worst, the future truckers of america are now pouring over the border as we speak. you should be very worried.
     
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  10. nb629

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    There was a story on this site just a week or two ago stating that swift stock took a 14% hit when they announced that they were going to raise driver pay. Also every add I've seen from them seems to be focused on experianced drivers not trainees. Swift didn't get as big as they are with "training money" they want to move freight. A well run buisness always adapts to the times, and being that they're the biggest I feel this is a good sign of things to come. Hopefully the rest will follow.
     
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