C.R. England and Sons, Inc. - West Valley, Ut.

I really shouldn't have mentioned it in public... then again, the degrees are now posted online and in print, and active recruiting is going on, at least in PA where I was raised.

 

You don't want to find yourself a cable tow's length from shore...

REYJAC

 

You raised in 1991?? Are you stating you were born in 1991?? If so then how could you have been driving Otr interstate for going on a year? Laws state you have to be 21yrs old to drive interstate. The only other option would be intrastate driving, but your profile states 0-1yr. So you were 19 or 20 yrs old when you went to Cr england? I don't think so.

 

Different kind of raised there, driver. Secret squirrel talk, weird handshakes and stuff.

 

I smell a rat tell me it ain't so.....

 

We're Masons, and you get "raised" to degrees. No further comment.

 

So just how old ARE you?

Honest to goodness...you sound like a highly intellegent human being. Part of the reason this thread has become so entertaining!

 

Swell...now I'm gonna have THAT tune running through my head for three days!

 

this article tells why they CRE and every other co advertises for drivers.


Trucker shortage expected to double
Posted By UnBylined On August 28, 2011 (8:08 am) In Business, Nation, News
Trucking companies may face a 30 percent surge in wages by 2014 as rising demand for freight shipments threatens to push the industry’s driver shortage to the longest on record.
The current shortfall will double in a year to about 300,000 full-time positions, or 10 percent of the workforce, said Noel Perry, managing director at consultant FTR Associates in Nashville, Ind. A three-year deficiency would top the 300,000 vacancies lasting for about a year in 2004, he said.
A gap between cargo demand and the driver supply adds to evidence that the freight industry is recovering. While the stock-market slump since July weighs on truckers such as J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc., 2011′s gains in cargo tonnage fit “with an economy that is growing very slowly,” the American Trucking Associations trade group said last week.
“The truck-driver population is growing at less than 1 percent a year,” said Jeff Kauffman, a Sterne Agee & Leach analyst in New York who follows truck and railroad stocks. “Freight’s growing at closer to 4 percent.”
The shortfalls seen in previous freight rebounds are getting a new twist, according to Perry. Federal safety regulations curbing drivers’ work hours mean companies must have more employees. Also now in place are rules helping companies assess applicants’ driving histories — weeding out bad risks while also shrinking the pool of applicants.
Rising wages would add to the cost pressures from a bigger workforce and higher prices for new trucks required by federal emissions rules. Truckers also are paying more for diesel fuel, which averaged 30 percent more a gallon this year through Aug. 23 than the same period in 2010, putting them at a competitive disadvantage to railroads’ superior efficiency.
“Truck is more expensive than rail already,” Kauffman said in an interview. “If it was purely a decision based on price, I probably already have moved to rail. But the flip side is, there’s a service difference” favoring truckers because of their greater speed.
Drivers are in short supply even as joblessness exceeds 9 percent. Company-employed drivers, who don’t own their rigs, earn average salaries in the mid-$40,000 range, based on figures from Norita Taylor, a spokeswoman for the Owner-Operator Independent Driver Association in Grain Valley, Mo. FTR’s Perry estimated a driver’s typical tenure at one year.
“If I get laid off, I’m not going to immediately go drive a truck,” said Bob Costello, the trucking association’s chief economist. “I’m going to try to get another job in my field, something where I’m home every night.”
Trucking-labor costs declined during the recession, so some of the projected wage increases will be “catch-up,” according to Perry, who predicted the 30 percent boost in wages by 2014. Labor costs gained 21 percent in the last recovery, he said.
“If we decide to raise rates for drivers, conversely we’re going to raise rates for customers,” Con-way’s Johnson said.
That may affect consumers through higher prices, according to the National Industrial Transportation League, an Arlington, Va.-based trade group for large shippers whose members include Exxon Mobil and DuPont.
“If the increases are substantial, that’s always the very hard balance that has to go into making determinations on product prices,” said Peter Gatti, NIT League executive vice president.
J.B. Hunt’s spending on wages, salaries and benefits rose 12 percent last quarter from a year earlier, compared with 15 percent for the trucking unit’s weekly sales per tractor. Lowell, Ark.-based J.B. Hunt ended 2010 with 15,223 employees, about 1,100 fewer than in 2005.
Saia Inc. said this month it would increase wages by 2.5 percent for drivers and many other employees. The added cost will be $10 million, according to the Johns Creek, Ga.-based company. That is about 1.1 percent of 2010 operating expenses.
At Con-way’s truckload unit, some routes are being limited to only four to five states so drivers can be home once a week. A new “lifestyle” program allows drivers to alternate between two weeks of driving and time off.
“Young drivers get in and sometimes they’re not aware of what it takes to be a driver, especially if they have got kids at home,” said Miles Verhoef, an independent owner-operator from Tomah, Wis., who worked as a company driver for 16 years. “It’s very hard on family life.”
Shippers and truckers also are shifting some loads to railroads to avoid long highway drives. Revenue from so-called intermodal cargos, which can move by road, rail and ship, rose last quarter at each of the four biggest publicly traded U.S. railroads.
For a permanent fix to the industry’s shortages, FTR’s Perry estimated that long-haul novices earning $40,000 annually and experienced drivers at $70,000 would need to see increases that might top his projection of a 30 percent boost by 2014.
“What does it take to make a normal person happy with being away from home two straight weeks?” Perry said. “The rule of thumb is we’ll probably have to pay these guys between $60,000 and $90,000.”
Article taken from Bangor Daily News - http://bangordailynews.com
URL to article: http://bangordailynews.com/2011/08/28/business/trucker-shortage-expected-to-double/

 

Trucker shortage expected to double
Posted By UnBylined On August 28, 2011 (8:08 am) In Business, Nation, News
Trucking companies may face a 30 percent surge in wages by 2014 as rising demand for freight shipments threatens to push the industry’s driver shortage to the longest on record.
The current shortfall will double in a year to about 300,000 full-time positions, or 10 percent of the workforce, said Noel Perry, managing director at consultant FTR Associates in Nashville, Ind. A three-year deficiency would top the 300,000 vacancies lasting for about a year in 2004, he said.
A gap between cargo demand and the driver supply adds to evidence that the freight industry is recovering. While the stock-market slump since July weighs on truckers such as J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc., 2011′s gains in cargo tonnage fit “with an economy that is growing very slowly,” the American Trucking Associations trade group said last week.
“The truck-driver population is growing at less than 1 percent a year,” said Jeff Kauffman, a Sterne Agee & Leach analyst in New York who follows truck and railroad stocks. “Freight’s growing at closer to 4 percent.”
The shortfalls seen in previous freight rebounds are getting a new twist, according to Perry. Federal safety regulations curbing drivers’ work hours mean companies must have more employees. Also now in place are rules helping companies assess applicants’ driving histories — weeding out bad risks while also shrinking the pool of applicants.
Rising wages would add to the cost pressures from a bigger workforce and higher prices for new trucks required by federal emissions rules. Truckers also are paying more for diesel fuel, which averaged 30 percent more a gallon this year through Aug. 23 than the same period in 2010, putting them at a competitive disadvantage to railroads’ superior efficiency.
“Truck is more expensive than rail already,” Kauffman said in an interview. “If it was purely a decision based on price, I probably already have moved to rail. But the flip side is, there’s a service difference” favoring truckers because of their greater speed.
Drivers are in short supply even as joblessness exceeds 9 percent. Company-employed drivers, who don’t own their rigs, earn average salaries in the mid-$40,000 range, based on figures from Norita Taylor, a spokeswoman for the Owner-Operator Independent Driver Association in Grain Valley, Mo. FTR’s Perry estimated a driver’s typical tenure at one year.
“If I get laid off, I’m not going to immediately go drive a truck,” said Bob Costello, the trucking association’s chief economist. “I’m going to try to get another job in my field, something where I’m home every night.”
Trucking-labor costs declined during the recession, so some of the projected wage increases will be “catch-up,” according to Perry, who predicted the 30 percent boost in wages by 2014. Labor costs gained 21 percent in the last recovery, he said.
“If we decide to raise rates for drivers, conversely we’re going to raise rates for customers,” Con-way’s Johnson said.
That may affect consumers through higher prices, according to the National Industrial Transportation League, an Arlington, Va.-based trade group for large shippers whose members include Exxon Mobil and DuPont.
“If the increases are substantial, that’s always the very hard balance that has to go into making determinations on product prices,” said Peter Gatti, NIT League executive vice president.
J.B. Hunt’s spending on wages, salaries and benefits rose 12 percent last quarter from a year earlier, compared with 15 percent for the trucking unit’s weekly sales per tractor. Lowell, Ark.-based J.B. Hunt ended 2010 with 15,223 employees, about 1,100 fewer than in 2005.
Saia Inc. said this month it would increase wages by 2.5 percent for drivers and many other employees. The added cost will be $10 million, according to the Johns Creek, Ga.-based company. That is about 1.1 percent of 2010 operating expenses.
At Con-way’s truckload unit, some routes are being limited to only four to five states so drivers can be home once a week. A new “lifestyle” program allows drivers to alternate between two weeks of driving and time off.
“Young drivers get in and sometimes they’re not aware of what it takes to be a driver, especially if they have got kids at home,” said Miles Verhoef, an independent owner-operator from Tomah, Wis., who worked as a company driver for 16 years. “It’s very hard on family life.”
Shippers and truckers also are shifting some loads to railroads to avoid long highway drives. Revenue from so-called intermodal cargos, which can move by road, rail and ship, rose last quarter at each of the four biggest publicly traded U.S. railroads.
For a permanent fix to the industry’s shortages, FTR’s Perry estimated that long-haul novices earning $40,000 annually and experienced drivers at $70,000 would need to see increases that might top his projection of a 30 percent boost by 2014.
“What does it take to make a normal person happy with being away from home two straight weeks?” Perry said. “The rule of thumb is we’ll probably have to pay these guys between $60,000 and $90,000.”
Article taken from Bangor Daily News - http://bangordailynews.com
URL to article: http://bangordailynews.com/2011/08/28/business/trucker-shortage-expected-to-double/