5/6 attrition rate for trainee drivers?

According to Hoffman's website, in 2006 there was an 121% attrition rate in the industry. My trainer, Brian Ware states that only one in three that get their CDL will be working in the system at 12 months. Doing a google search of "Truck driver employee attrition rates" brings to the front page what indicates a problem in the industry that is not being addressed. Whatever the actual numbers, there seems to be a problem with driver retention.

I believe that most live somewhere between insanity and reality in a world that exists only in their mind and kept alive by how much money they have to throw at their fantasy. Jet fighter pilots, astronauts and a few other professions - and truck drivers - go to work knowing that every second of every day if they are not "completely on," they could go home in a zippered trash bag; worse yet send someone else home to their loved ones in one. Personally I think that someone that causes a vehicular incident through negligence should have the flesh flayed from their back - and if it is proven beyond a shadow that one driver caused the death of someone else because of their actions it should be treated the same as if they had pulled a trigger.

The attrition rate in the 'driving industry' may be in part, the result of learning the strength of one's own metal.