The Biden Administration’s Supply Chain Disruptions Task Force recently rolled out a plan designed to bring new truckers to the workforce and better retain CDL holders. Called the “Truck Action Plan,” the White House will reportedly take measures to reverse the year-over-year rate of attrition.
“A strong, stable, and safe trucking workforce that offers good-paying jobs to millions of truck drivers is a critical lifeblood of our economy,” the White House reportedly stated. “But outdated infrastructure, the COVID-19 pandemic, and a historic volume of goods moving through our economy have strained capacity across the supply chain, including in trucking.”
The administration announced a series of policy changes and funding efforts to support the freight transportation sector. Some attempt to expedite getting new CDL holders into the workforce. For example, the White House tapped the DOT and the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) to provide money and support to help process CDLs. The FMCSA is authorized to approve upwards of $30 million. More than 50,000 CDLs or Learner’s Permits were issued on average each month in 2021. That number represents a 21 percent increase over 2020 when the pandemic was considered an impediment. Other efforts reportedly include the following.
- Marketing: The administration plans to use a 90-day “Challenge” to promote Registered Apprenticeships. Employers can sign up and benefit from the Department of Labor investing $8 million into apprenticeships.
- Veteran Outreach: The White House indicated there are “approximately 70,000 veterans who are likely to have certified trucking experience in the last five years.” The DOL Veterans’ Employment and Training Service, and Department of Veterans Affairs, have been instructed to work with Veterans Service Organizations, Military Service Organizations, unions, and others in the freight transportation sector to attract qualified veterans.
- Talk: The Department of Labor, and Department of Transportation, plan to kick off listening sessions for key stakeholders to articulate reasons for driver attrition and early leaving.
- Study: The FMCSA plans to conduct further research into hourly wages, salaries, and the mileage rates truck drivers earn. Part of the study will review truck driver detention and how it negatively impacts the supply chain.
- Younger Drivers: Young adults between 18 and 21 years old will have the opportunity to pursue a CDL for the purpose of interstate trucking. The recent infrastructure package establishes a program to integrate younger people into the workforce.
- Predatory Practices: The Task Force plans to study unethical truck leasing practices that cause some CDL holders to sour on working in the industry. The research is embedded in the recently signed infrastructure package law.
EVO Trucking, D.M. Bowman, Yellow Corp., Florida Rock and Tank, Total Transportation, CRST, and Albertsons, have reportedly thrown their hat into the Registered Apprenticeship ring. Others are expected to follow as organizations compete for qualified truckers in 2022.
Sources: truckinginfo.com, npr.org
Problem is at the warehouses 5 hrs. to get loaded 5 hrs. to destination 6 hrs. get unloading get paid by mileage day is done only got paid for 5hrs.
This is the type of information the government is looking for. All you drivers need to get info to Whit House if getting mileage pay.
I run local and just moved to hourly pay. Waiting on either end, as long as I am logged on as ‘on duty working’ I am getting paid. I work 12 hour shifts with some overtime. Cosistant paychecks and home time makes trucking a job not a life style. Washington needs to understand the OTR driver lives in the truck but doesn’t get paid for that time makes for drivers choosing professions with family time over a driver that is used and misused more often then any other profession. The lack of drivers is not the problem we have tons of CDL holders but those drivers refuse to give up their families or lives to a profession that is disrespected by society including local, state & federal gov’ts.
Whose fault is that?
Yes we need to be able to go to sleeper birth at warehouses and not lose our time laying in the bunk
Why are truck driver not paid by the hour? We need to be paid by the hour. We need more safe truck parking.
used to be about safety it about how much DOT inspectors can find on your truck to give you massive fines Way too much regulation . need to back it down a little bit
Well one would hope this would burn the ATA and the mega carriers but like every intervention in the trucking industry, the corporations and big carriers get breaks and more burden gets put on the lowly drivers.
Nothing will change. Having to pull 18 year old kids to attempt to cover the shortage will do nothing good. It will be an endless stream of modern day slavery. The only decent trucking jobs are highly specialized or union gigs. And it still isn’t that great of a job or lifestyle. OTR sucks and you get treated like scum to live in a truck to make less than minimum wage.
With the pay increases at mcjobs nowadays, there is no reason to ever be a trucker. You can work two part time dead end jobs, make more money, have a life outside of truckstops, and sleep in a real bed.
Maybe instead of recruiting starry eyed children to abuse and doling out millions to abusive companies the .gov cleans house and enforces labor laws that are present in every other industry?
I couldn’t have said it better myself. The idea that they are going to put 18 to 20 year olds to run as OTR drivers running irregular schedules for lousy pay, driving 80K pound trucks that may be carrying haz mat yet these same newby drivers are not considered by society as responsible enough to own handguns or drink baffles common sense. I want to ask these gov’t people if they want to be driving at 3 o clock in the morning sharing the road with an 18 year old hauling 10K gallons of gas? Oh this change has nothing to do with saftey but everything to do with saving an old fool and his political party from being incompitant. When they are gone and forgotten we will be paying for this one for years to come.
I see 6 power points and not one of them is about better compensation or bringing back overtime pay. Just blowing more smoke.
Again! This is the info the White House is asking for. Get it to them. Can’t do anything without numbers. And trucking companies are not going to give them that info.
Many have tried to get that information to the White House it falls on deaf ears the old saying of money talks and bullshit walks applies here
They will listen again to so called “industry stakeholders”. They’ve been listening to the industry “stakeholders” since I started in this industry 25 years ago and this job went steadily downhill. Here’s some free advice for the White House: How about you ignore the stakeholders and listen to the drivers this time? Now there’s a revolutionary idea!
Agreed
I agree! This is our time.
I agree with Mack the drivers are in the field. They know what’s best
Biden administration.
What could possibly go wrong?
Let’s go Brandon.
You actually wasted your time to post that dumb shit.
Really, we are all screwed if mush brain has anything to do with it.
Get donny a cdl,let that douche deliver freight
All they talk about is stuff for company driver’s, O/O are a BIG part of the industry. aThey do nothing for us but regular the shit out of us. Government don’t want to undo what messed up the industry in the first place, they are just a room full of dumb ass that love to see who can come up with stupidest rule . Get your nose out of trucking .
A lot of the mentioned stakeholders, have some of the worse CSA scores in the industry. Not sure current choices are even in the right direction. Wait times at warehouses was addressed in the FMCSA final ruling in June 2015 but no follow through was offered in fear of companies loosing their shippers
Keep pushing! They will lose drivers if they don’t listen.
Utterly frigging useless measures. Plus a new impediment requiring all CDL learners permit holders to go through a registered CDL will do nothing but tend to funnel everyone through the big CDL schools rin by the Mega carriers like Swift and CR England. Neither Republican or Democrat politicians ever do anything that doesn’t benefit the big boys at the expense of independent OO’s. The problem is only going to get worse.
Utterly frigging useless measures. Plus a new impediment requiring all CDL learners permit holders to go through a registered CDL School will do nothing but tend to funnel everyone through the big CDL schools rin by the Mega carriers like Swift and CR England. Neither Republican or Democrat politicians ever do anything that doesn’t benefit the big boys at the expense of independent OO’s. The problem is only going to get worse.
Huh? Still no plan to address 4th amendment violations that happen daily when it comes to commercial drivers being pulled over without cause.
What a JOKE!!!
Here’s an idea, Brandon, …why don’t you and all your czar cronies, supporters and the idiots who put you all there go jump in a truck and go DO THE JOB for a few months and see how much YOU like it.
Give donny a cdl let that douche deliver freight for 13 bucks an hour,slightly more than his ole lady for a reach around
Typical government bullsh*t response. Just throw money at the problem. Those clowns in Washington don’t have a clue as to what truckers do or deal with on a daily basis. Oh, I just love the remark about allowing 18 year olds to drive trucks interstate. Talk about “blood running down the ditches”. Look at the insurance companies statistics on accidents involving 18-21 year olds and you’ll see they have the highest numbers. It’s bad enough having the foreigners out here flying down the highways, add a bunch of young dumbass kids, and 50, 100 truck pileups will become the norm. Yup, “Let’s Go Brandon”,(FJB).
Yes, the Former Guy did so much for truck drivers. The talk of 18-21 yo driving interstate has been going in for years. I know one millennial that drives a truck, he has accepted living in a truck yo pay off dtudent loans.
U mean donny the douche
Supply Chain nightmares, caused by antiquated Central Planning with new technologies in e-commerce.
Nonetheless, CDLs and Permits should be updated, as far as obtaining those credentials. Some States take longer to process those through the system. Once Permit is issued, driving schools or DMVs should offer better ways to pass those who have met all criteria. Instead, the Skills & Road Tests should be minimal, instead of cumbersome.
If you want to drive, you shouldn’t be made to fail!
The problem is too many hours for little pay. Now you can work another job and be home every night making more money. It’s all about the money and the BS you have to put up with. The more money you make, the more BS you can put up with.
I know have harris fix it, just like she fixed the Border. Then Biden can Fix it just lile he put a Stop to the Virus. Why don’t these Idiots in Government do what the heck their supposed to do instead of sticking their No Nothing Brains into everything else. It has been the same as it’s always been. They will talk to people that own the Companies not the people having the problems with the Companies, Federal Over regulations by Local State and federal Governments. Can’t park here can’t park There. We don’t want Trucks or Truckers Here. Be here on time so you can wait 5 hours be here 5 minutes late and make another appointment for 3 or 4 days later. But you have to go park 100 miles away then Pay to be there. You people don’t have to Dam Clue. The Pay has never met the cost of Living. Guys and Gals working 70 to 90 hours a week to make the money most people make working 40.
The scariest words in the English language…I’m from the government and I’m here to help.
Ronald Reagan
I’m tire of government helping with everything!
Nothing like quoting the guy who literally destroyed the Middle Class.
100%
Well get together and do something instead of moaning about it time and time again.Always the same excuses
Talk, Talk, Talk…. same solution as before. When the government says they’ll investigate it only means they want to APPEAR as if they’re doing something. Just so most voters will think the government is going to do something.
When I learn of congress persons, senators and the Secretary of Trans out walking the truck stops and talking to drivers…THEN I’ll believe we have hope.
Good idea! Get them out there. Write letters. Get on radio talk shows, get in the news.
Well every truck driver might as well walk away. Every time the stupid idiots in Washington try to fix the industry they just make it worse. 33 years of this garbage industry and come June I’ll be finished. Moving in to something better. Good luck and you all better pray when they put children behind the wheel
My thoughts exactly
Wow, this literally does nothing to help what Truckers really need. How about cracking down on shippers and forcing detention? How about reduction in truck tolls(yes i know its a state thing, but since this stupid admin wants to contr everything..) ? How about investing in truck parking before you add more trucks to the road? I’m sure my fellow drivers could add a bevy of other to-do items that are WAY more important than “studies” and helping get and retain new drivers.
Investing in Vets makes sense, but how nonsensical is it to add trucks to the roads in which this idiot administration took out truck parking considerations in infrastructure? Oh that’s right, so it can go into some slush fund of some politicians instead of actually applying it to needed infrastructure. This Zombie administration is so out of touch with people and its needs, it’s just pathetic.
I’m not sure if you are aware but according to the boy wonder over at DOT, highways more specifically bridges are races so a good chunk of those moneys must go to equity new bridges that are no longer racist and for more parking, you can just wait till we get another Trump term to straighten out this nonsense. Let’s go Brandon!!!
I don’t think anything will change. It’s the same old talk, but no walk. Everything the government touches turns to do-do. This is how it’s always been, and this is how it will always be. The government is just too big for anything to change.
Nice that the government is looking at it. Quite a change from republicans who just want to eliminate unions, reduce wages and do other favors to their corporate handlers. Favors that don’t help the working man.
Quite a change alright! Now we have a bunch of do nothing democRats sitting on their hands with their thumb up their rump looking at it! Yeah thats a change for the better JACK! LETS GO BRANDON!!!
Yes, someone who gets it.
The liberals that have caused 90% of the supply chain problems???? LMFAO!!! I WILL NOT list the libtard policies that all led to this mess….Be sure to log into your ELD sheeople and have a nice break when your demmie emissions break down next week….Shop might get you in in 19 days. I promise you dems will do nothing but put more green cards in trucks. Then lighten their criminal sentence after they kill people with a rig. Already do foreign language CDL tests….Christ sniffer Joey doesn’t know his wife. FJB!!
BRANDON was spossed to fix Cancer. I think he forgot.
BRANDON only sucks the government teat. No real world experience to fix anything.
He’s doing more than dirtbag trump did.
Biden is an idiot like every other liberal, and he has done NOTHING in his whole life to help America! He has only helped himself and his cronies! Anyone who thinks Biden is better than Trump is brain dead.
YEAH DOING MORE HARM IDIOT!
HE’S DOING MORE ALRIGHT…MORE HARM JACK…A**!!!
go jam up with loser donny
You sound like a teamster. You know , the clowns who can’t think for themselves.
The Feds (Let’s Go Brandon!) and more local tyrants helped make a bad situation worse, with their plandemic rules. Now, the Feds want to help. Sure. That means more government with more rules and regulations, and more control from on top. Always squeezing out the little guys, with higher fuel costs and requirements. The big companies are politically-correct and play well with Big Brother. This won’t end well for us.
We don’t need new cdl holders this industry is over flooded with trucks, what we need is better pay and more parking areas
Obama/Biden took away our write-offs for food and other thing except for O/O. Big lost of money for many drivers. I work in a state that does not pay overtime to truckers when you get paid hourly. Big lost when average driver works about 60 hours a week. Companies use the cameras to harass drivers. I’m not against ELD’S but some things need fixing (just had a road closed from snow storm) trucks parked on road because they ran out of hours. In the days before ELD’S drivers would at least go to a safe haven to get there sleep. What other type of job would put up with things like this and many other things that we put up with daily that I didn’t even mention
Funny all the steering wheel holders that think President Biden is the problem. Tell us exactly what legislation Biden has enacted that has made your life worse.
He brainwashed A** wipes like you to start with!
Thats easy! Everything he’s legislated has turned to crap queergrinder.. I mean queergrinder…Oh dam i did it again sorry! NOT!!!!!
U need to go to donnys trailer park in fla and give him some service
Union busting, job killing, war mongering, and fiscally malfeasant conservatives have ruined my life, but I love them. Give me a break.
Given ISTEA, ISTEAII, NEXTEA, FORMER chairman obama’s “shovel ready jobs” lie, and a host of other alleged “infrastructure improvement” debacles over the past few decades, our roads and bridges should be shiny new and smooth as glass. All we ever hear about is how we need to spend more, more, MORE! I want to see an audit of what has already gone through the sieve that is political life in the Swamp and find out why our infrastructure is in its current condition.
All you F** this government idiots don’t have a clue why your job has turned to crap! Just too young and ignorant to learn that Republicans and Reagan killed the unions with the “right to work a law” in the 70’s. Don’t join a union if you don’t want too. “what good are unions”! Now you all can see what happens when there are no unions! Yea, unions suck because I heard there was one bad guy Bla Bla Bla who did something that was so bad we should never have unions and protect the workers. Well just keep voting Republican, keep your per mileage pay and go to hell with your bitching and stupidity.
For starters make the companies honest and hold them accountable for lying to the drivers, lying about the drivers to other companies. Levy fines on these lying companies so that they’re as honest as the drivers. In other words local means local and incidents aren’t reportable accidents and should be removed from drivers records mechanical failures should not be held against the drivers but against the mechanics and their companies!
18 year olds in trucks is almost a non issue. They won’t flip a burger and sleep at home every night, let alone drive a truck and be gone for 3 weeks. They may get a few to do it (God help us) but most are playing computer games or scrolling on their phones. I’m sure the 18 year olds will be part of the flip flop wearing, feet on the dash while driving, park on the shoulder to pee, hog the left lane crowd. Brandon’s not doing anyone any favors here. As has been alluded to above, fix the issues they will attract more qualified adults.
Companies and Government wants driverless trucks. It’s moronic but true. Bringing in young ones to cause accidents and problems is part of the plan.
It’s such a mess out there and eliminating the driver is the only answer they are after. It’s all just talk to delay til that happens.
donny and joe gonna start hauling freight ,as joe drove a truck once back in 1925
On strike.
Total Transportation, CRST? Sounds like they asked the wolves to help them secure the chicken coop.
“Predatory Practices” OMG,is someone actually listening. I don’t actually believe anything will be done about it but just to see the decades old ‘never-never-lease-op’ scam officially addressed by feds is surprising. When the Trumpster came to the WH,it was obvious the Goliath lobby of the industry were in his ear exploiting Trumps tax reform initiative. Cut ‘per-diem’ for company drivers and shift it to lease-op’s/oo’s. If Trump only knew the motivation of lobby on that one. I don’t think Trump knew what that was really about.
Just like every other sector of workforce, c-ovid-19 scam trying to coerce the big pharma drug racket will take its toll here,too. I’ve walked because of it. 25 years in with 15 maybe 20 more to go. Not buying your s*%t. Adios. Parallel society and economy being born from this. There will be a reset,one way or the other,now. Divide up states and provinces into regions. Blue collar will thrive,latte sippin’,sandal wearing hipsters will not.