Severe Driver Shortage?

The part of this Job i hate is sometimes pulling into 8 or 9 scales in one day. What a waste! Can i see your papers?

 

Yeah, I know. Don't you sometimes feel like you're driving a 40-ton ATM?

 

Theres a driver shortage for drivers that will work for peanuts. Lets see, be away for weeks, can't idle your truck to sleep, make 26-28 cents per mile, Call the truck schools and feed them full of lies to get suckers that have no choice but to work for peanuts. Thats todays trucking world from the mega carriers eyes.

 

If there was a driver shortage why are these companies play hart to get? makes you wonder.

 

There never was a driver shortage. There never will be a driver shortage. As long as the unemployed people think that they can be truck driver's, and the schools convince them that they can find jobs, there will never be any shortage, of driver's, only a shortage for the schools to use their gigantic vacuum and suck'em in.

 

They have to follow FMCSA regulations. But hard to get?

You see some slob that smells like a sewer, lives in a truck that looks like a dumpster, has no regard for the next man and basically lives like a monkey... they will hire anything that has a CDL.

No drugs, no DUI's or repeated violations and you have a job. It doesn't matter if ones IQ is one notch above being mentally challenged or you like looking at little boys on the computer. All the regulations and they fail to acknowledge the phychosis of some.

There's not a shortage and never will be.

Besides, that article is over a year old.

 

I have only been in the business for two years but I own my truck and my company. While looking for work over the holidays well since Dec. 1 I noticed one thing if I wanted to work for nothing there were plenty of jobs. But I mean nothing. I must be doing something wrong it made me think because I just didn't see with how much it costs me to run my truck I could even remotely support my family at many of those rates. So I believe if anything with all the new regulations and a few other factors there is only a shortage of quality drivers still willing to pull their freight for nothing. But what does my rookie ### really know.

 

I call 'em "Booksmart". No real world experience, they just live by what they read in a book and consider it the God's honest truth.

 

I believe that its a myth or I would still own a tractor and a trailer. One reason for this to statemnet to be true is that rates have not gone up to reflect the shorttage nor have they gone up to reflect the high price of fuel. The other reason that I say that there is no shorttage is the way that these shippers and recievers treat drivers, when entering a cold storage unit, grocery warehouse or the like. The drivers wouldn't be asked to unload the freight off their trailers, that would be up to the reciever and the shipper nor would the trucker have to bribe(lumper fee's), anyone to get unloaded in the first place. Shorttage is just like saying fuel surcharge..A play on words! rates should reflect the price of fuel...Drivers just don't know how to use a calculator to figuure their cpms or cost per miles... lack of education out there so they get taken advantage of.

 

You're right and it seems to me like it is only gonna get worse because of the lease purchase stuff. These "new o/o's" are just learning to drive a truck and have NO CLUE how to run a business so they think the rates the BI'S pay them are great.

I don't see the new regs as weeding out the bad drivers, I see them weeding out the great drivers. The one's who know how to drive and what the work is really worth.