Driver shortages are greedy desires to have an infinite number drivers when the company won't/can't improve pay & conditions to the point they attract enough qualified drivers. There are many companies with little or no "driver shortage" and without a 100% turnover each year. Buying too many trucks & making too many promises is called a "driver shortage".
Can you be a really good truck driver and still be bad?
Discussion in 'Experienced Truckers' Advice' started by Lennythedriver, Aug 28, 2023.
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"Driver shortage" is like some irresponsible person with a minimum-wage job overspending on cigarettes, liquour, cable TV, luxury cars and then claiming they are underpaid. It is an excuse that shifts the blame away from the people making irresponsible decisions.
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Almost everyone that CHOOSES to run a red light sees something or has a reason for running that red light. Having a reason for doing something foolish doesn't always change the act from foolish to wise. Although I am 200% confident you will now start arguing in favor of running red lights simply because your defiance is more important than learning anything. As I said numerous times before and you deliberately missed, just because a trucking company buy trucks/trailers and tells customers "yes" doesn't mean they now have a shortage of driver. They can and do make commitments HOPING to pick up extra business or to achieve some financial goal, or reach some fleet size landmark, or hoping to magically find the drivers to fill heir larger fleet. If the company stretches in anticipation of finding those drivers and then doesn't find them it doesn't prove there is a shortage. It proves they leapt before they should have. NOT one trucking company can pretend they never heard of the possibility of a driver shortage as the ATA has been pushing this excuse since the 1980s. A company expanding with little certainty about finding the extra drivers, no matter what the freight market is telling them, isn't making responsible decisions. If you keep asking questions about what I've written I will just respond with the post # where you can re-read the previous answer instead of wasting my time until you pretend to understand and then immediately pretend it wasn't explained AGAIN. You aren't even trying to be serious or understand. You are taking the words of the company and bowing to authority, no thinking allowed. "It must be true, they said it was." Billion dollar companies go bankrupt with regularity. NOBODY in industry looks to trucking as a model to be followed. Almost every item important for trucking success is a commodity of ne description or another yet they act like the labor of drivers is a commodity that doesn't react to supply and demand. There is hardly a commodity on the earth you can't increase the supply by offering more money for it. "Oh we boosted driver pay by 5 cents from 1991-1993 and we didn't get everyone in the country becoming a CDL driver so we just don't know how to get more drivers." -
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I'd say there's a shortage of people who know how to hold a dialogue with another member and not hijack the whole thread.
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