Get ready for the stampede

At my last driving job I made right at 60k per year. That was a ~45 hr work week, night time runs, home daily and weekends off. But then they fired me a week before my paid vacation for "falling asleep at the wheel" when the newly-installed driver facing camera captured me hitting the rumble strip for a couple of seconds. That was the final straw that facilitated my leaving the industry. Chalk it up as one more driver short.

 

I don't buy in to the driver shortage BS. I mean, if that were the case. Why is there TONS of trucks still sitting around at truckstops. Most of the big cities truckstops have no place to park all day long.

 

Glassdoor is a joke. I can't take anything posted there seriously. I find it baffling that a presumably serious journalist would even cite them as a source, much less base an entire article on the veracity of their "data".

 

Exactly right. The only reason I can figure that the driver shortage thing is still thrown around is maybe because of driver turnover at large carriers. Some of these carriers have turnover rates as high as 98 percent, so they constanly need drivers. However, they always can get fresh butts in the seats.

I remember in 2008, during thr start of the recession, that you didnt hear about a driver shortage. In fact, there were too many drivers and if you weren't a student who was going to pay to go to a company run truck driving school; you would flat out be told we arent hiring.

 

If a trucking company cherry picks the elite from the turkeys it is easy to assume a shortage.

However it is hard to argue a shortage when indexes like the Cass Index show hard evidnece that approximately 9 to 15% of all trucks and trailers sit each quarter nation wide. Rotting because they generate costs for a company unable to find freight to fill them.

 

CNN

that explains everything.............

 

I remember that.

 

In 09 I had to wait 4 months to get into a company that now begs for anybody
By 2010 the number of truckers had dropped from 3.5 million to 3 million
It's now back to 3.5 but I expect a leveling off or even a drop again.
New truck sales are way down from last year.
Pretty soon we may be able to find parking again.

 

3 million Rusty?

We were 9 million to 15 million once upon a time dating from 1994 after suffering losses of uncounted millions who choose to be free on the porch rather than suffer increased Government Regulation.

 

One of our Officers inside the Ivory tower of PAM made out like a bandit with a buyout of his position or did he decide to leave? Im unclear on the details, but I understand this Executive stands to take 670,000 dollars home within this year.

I find it outrageous. You can water a trucking company with a half million and see a mighty forest begin to grow.