Fair to assume the driver shortage is real?

Lol. seriously a female in charge? I ain't never

 

a sucker is born every minute of every day. They will never run out of suckers...

 

Truck driver has the highest turnover rate over any other jobs.I looked at craigs list for where im at,under transport there is over 400 ppl and/or companies looking for drivers.Under general labor 200 posted ads.Other jobs were 100 or less postings.

 

just some labor stats for trucking, current empty jobs in all of transportation, 3.2% of all transportation jobs for Nov 2014.

for comparison,
construction, 2.3%
hospitality, 5.2% (food service jobs, hotels, service plazas)

total empty jobs in all sectors, 3.4%

now put some numbers to that percent.

transportation, openings for november, 876,000 jobs
total hires for november, 1,119,000
total terminations, 1,046,000


all information can be found at
http://www.bls.gov/


There is NO driver shortage, just a churning of the wannabes, and new hires.

current unemployment is 5.6% with a participation rate of 62.7 people able to work seeking employment.

 

transportation, openings for november, 876,000 jobs, this is for Werner Enterprises only


total hires for november, 1,119,000, this is the total amount of newbies hired on at Swift starting Dec, 1st, 2014


total terminations, 1,046,000, this is the total amount of drivers fired from Swift as of Dec 31st, 2014

 

um, Unemployment is actually 12%, which is still much lower than I thought (I thought it was closer to 30%

 

if trucking really has that bad of turnover then thats why we're (allegedly) paid so poorly

these higher-ups read about how bad turnover is , why would they pay us alot if stattisically we won't be there long. its a waste of their time and money. if we'd stop turnover pay may go up. but rates would have to go up first.

 

"We will not stop turnover", if you are asking us drivers to stop it on our own. WE cannot agree on anything, we cannot band together, we are independents, we are not sheeple that adhere to the rules.

So as a result, many of us "do our time" and move on when something better comes along, and usually it does, then we stay put. Until then, all others are "way-stations" we pass by, pass through, pass judgement on to others.