The Driver Shortage Myth

Or more Importantly, the Krabby patty secret recipe.

 

No it isn't a shortage of drivers, it is misplaced capacity.

 

I'm starting to think so too. Everybody is hiring all the time now, it seems... not just the megas.

 

The shortage is big fleets inability to retain drivers.

The answer should be apprenticeships only, no schools, and negotiate your wage starting at 1.20 per mile + bennies or go straight to O/O and share in the successes and failures of your own company.

Just my .02 from a 20 year off and on trucking life/interest/fascination.

 

Do short drivers have to put blocks on the pedals?

 

I eat out of Whole Foods supermarkets, try it Mikey u might like it

 

Think ???
Thats work. Easier to just complain.

 

Supply and demand is the general principle that applies to every aspect of a capitalistic society. In order to make a profit, demand MUST be higher than supply. If there was an available truck for every available load, you would see O/O's going bankrupt overnight and salaries for company drivers decrease even more than their already ridiculously low levels. Shippers and big box retailers created the myth of a severe driver shortages to cover their own butts in the eyes of the consumer because they want to use trucking companies as part of the excuse for higher prices.

As long as drivers continue leaving the business at a much faster rate than new drivers coming in, eventually there really will be a driver shortage and that will cause a shipping crisis. If that happens, O/O's and trucking companies will be on top of the world.

 

Saw a short driver in Albuquerque the other day must have been 4 ft.