Truckers in Big Demand

I dont believe there's a shortage of drivers.. the shortage is about trucking or driver amenities. someone got that backwards

 

The shortage is BIG company's being able to get someone to drive that rig for about 40 cents per mile, while the company's make 3.00 per mile off the driver.

 

Yeah i've heard it all before like pilots there's supposed to be a growing shortage.

 

pilot's are popping every where and it still isn't enough, and a few loves too

 

Stopped at the love's in Quartzsite, AZ a few weeks ago. I dreaded stopping there in the past, parking and lines were ridiculous. they've added parking and shop since I was there last. a little better but still packed

 

I know I see a lot of big short drivers.

 

Go to the back of any carrier's maintenance shop and look at all the tires they go through in just a month's time. Look at the heap of tires that were curbed, and ran low by these "professional" drivers. One tire = $350+ Do the math.

A large trucking costs incur serious expenses to run the entire operation, pay all the ongoing hiring costs, property taxes, tolls, breakdown towing and repairs, employee vacation and benefits. Yes, I get it, those at the top are "over compensated" according to most here. But they are charging $3 mile to run those reefers and pay those drivers because that's about what it costs when you can only find sorry excuses for drivers to work for you and have to conduct business in today's bureaucracy. Trucking on a large scale is a very costly business, even under the best of circumstances. One instant can offset 6 months of profits.

 

Schneider stays busy. I never sit and wait for loads. I run Georgia Pacific. I hear alot if other driver always wasting so much time and never getting paid for if. If you want to know more feel free to ask.

 

Some companies like high driver turnover........gov. gives tax breaks to a company...that hires somebody who is on unemployment..or a unemployed military vet

 

and putting the driver in a stripped Freightshaker throw away truck