Trucking Industry "DESPERATE" for new drivers?

Basically,

it IS true !!!

 

"Desperate for new drivers"

there now that it correctly quoted it makes more sense.

An experienced driver will not work for peanuts.
An experienced driver will not put up with the BS and lies.
I'm sure there is more but this is enough.

That news clip is just astro-turfing for the carpet baggers.....

 

Bent Wrench is right. All of the mega carriers are crap jobs and they need to keep hiring newbies to keep their trucks moving as anyone with 3 mos exp can figure out that they are crap jobs = the minimum wage employers of trucking. The other issue they dont explain is that with the new cvsa 2010 rules and points system that there are several drivers that will be without jobs as they lost their license due to pointing out.

 

True...drivers are needed...
First year pay..$40,000...mostly true at the better starter companies...but you must keep in mind that is for a 70hr work week...maybe more, so more like working TWO JOBS FOR $20,000.
IF YOU SURVIVE THE FIRST YEAR....one in maybe 10 will, you can make more $$ i think for less hours...
if companies get desperate enough, they will pay new drivers more, and treat all drivers better....till then, they just flood the airwaves and print meadia talking about shortages...cheaper than actually $$ more to fix the actual issues...

 

here's the problem with "desperate for new drivers", companies want drivers who will work, not lazy bums. Everyday I hear this BS about a shortage of drivers, no, it's not a shortage of drivers, it's a shortage of drivers who want to work and not sit on their ### and collect unemployment.

 

There's other reasons . Some drivers leave because they like to eat once in a while . I heard a JB dedicated to PPG on the CB on the NY Thruway trying to sell his CB because wanted money to buy a meal . He said JB requires a minimum amount of miles between advances (I think it was around 1500 ) and he hadn't reached that amount in the past week .
Some drivers leave because they don't want to work but I think more leave because the carriers don't give them enough work .

 

You can make good money driving specialized and hazmat like tankers. I do pretty good driving tankers. But the others are right about these big freight companies, all they want is cheap drivers.
There is a old saying in the trucking business, if a company has to advertise all the time there is a reason they can't keep drivers.

 

Read the latest "Trucker" , there was big yak by carriers at the convention about driver wages BUT they all said if the shipper won't pay more then...too bad....which I thought was ironic as:

1 There was money for new pillars and a gym in Chattanooga..... ( spell check pls )
2 There is money for new LPG tractors ( cost 180K ) to run down from Ontario.
3 There is money for all the new farings on the trailers......
4 There is money for extended recruiting efforts......
5 There was money to buy 290 FFE tractors.........

and the list goes on....but none for us?

 

This is the second such story in the past 6 months.

I'm beginning to wonder if some of the reporters have bought trucking companies in that area.