Has anyone ever seen evidence of the driver shortage?

The #1 Indicator Of A Driver Shortage ....Will be when rookies start out at .50cpm.

 

There is absolutely no driver shortage that's complete BS.

There is however a shortage of drivers who will work for crap pay, with crap benefits, with crap hometime, for a company that treats them like crap.

"But our trucks have satellite TV..." lmao

 

The driver shortage was invented as an excuse to import cheap labor into the country to work as truck drivers. It has been largely successful as is evidenced by the numbers of immigrants driving trucks these days.

 

They did the same thing in the health care field. now you need to pay for months of training to make a barely livable wage in jobs you used to walk in and say "I'm not an idiot and i can learn" then get on the job training and have a respectable wage.

 

Worse! It's the Chupacabra AND Bigfoot. <shudder>

 

If you're head of recruiting at a mega carrier, and statistics show that of the drivers you have out there now, 100 are going to quit or get fired over the next 7 days, and you're having trouble qualifying more then about 85 new drivers every week, then from that POV, there is a "driver shortage". Those 100 who quit or got fired don't count for nothing anymore.

The idea many of those who quit likely moved on to other trucking jobs at smaller carriers (non-mega) doesn't mean anything. Only what the mega carriers are experiencing is what is reported and regarded by DC lobbying groups and recycles this headline you again bring up ... "Driver Shortage Crisis"

 

There's a driver overage in Florida. Always has been, always will be.

 

There are as many drivers as pay & working conditions support. On unrelated note, has anyone noticed the Supermodel Shortage?