New Driver applicants decrease 20+ percent.

Tinfoil hat????

 

Good. Hope it drops off 100%.

 

Just by reading these threads it appears a lot of the WIA and Pell grants are drying up. Might help in the drop? Ah, yea, I am just guessing!

 

I'm not really surprised. But nice to know. The way allot of companies are treating drivers while on break is unacceptable. I'm not talking about USA. I was treated ok while on break at USA. But others really bad. I simply won't work for a company that doesn't have someway to keep us comfortable while on break. When they ask me if I have any questions for them, that is the question I ask. I have had many jobs. Driving is just one of them. The companies are going to have to resolve some issues. Or they will lose more drivers.

 

Those companies don't want drivers. They want indentured servants to move freight for them for nothing.

 

APU's are a good recruiting tool for driver comfort on breaks & layovers.

 

I am nearing CDL school completion. My class began with 49 students. 27 or 28 remain in the beginning of their third week. It seems a more demanding criteria and falling student quality may be adding up in declining numbers too at the entry end.

 

There's only a sucker born every minute . When tens of thousands get exploited each year the supply begins to dry up .

 

what we need is another article about how driver pay is bound to go up due to the need of another 200,000 drivers!!!!! improving economy? lol, thats a good one.. its been improving ever since obama took office, even when we had negative gdp...summer of recovery etc etc.

the trucking industry has been like this "forever"? at least in my limited history it has been just as it is, exploitative at best. i dont think the supply is drying up, they just lower the recruiting standards and have their HR recruiting staff make more calls and post more advertisements...

i was talking to a driver not long ago that i had driven to the hotel that my company uses and he was asking me questions..one of the things he mentioned is that the recruiters told him that the trucks have APU's (lol)...it isnt a complete lie because there are still some 2006'ish freightliners that have apu's although the apu prly doesnt work... but it is obviously deceitful because out of the 1200 or so trucks we have maybe 10-20 have working apu's and thats a generous estimate and those are on the worst trucks in the fleet. (they havent put apu's on any other trucks new or otherwise). so basically its used as a reason to get someone in the door by any means.