Driver shortage real; at least in Alberta

Even Jamie Davis towing had to pull out...

 

Yeah the shortage is real, every company owner that I know is complaining that they have too many trucks sitting around because they don't have enough drivers. Myself I am having this issue as well

 

No one to blame but greedy truck owners and companies. You have paid peanuts for so long, cut each other’s throats on rates so you can get the load and pull it for pennies of profit per mile, and treated drivers not much better than slave labour.

 

My ltl company has been dumping unprofitable freight for two years now. Freight volumes are down, profits are way up.

What a concept.

 

I see this in the automotive freight we haul. Outfits come in at the low ball rate, they last a month or two and quit. Then we get the call at triple+ the going rate while they scramble to find another full time carrier.

 

Cargill trying it out in my area as well , asking a couple of long time haulers to retender contracts. But our biggest problem is Farmers coming in hauling grain for peanuts in wintertime.

 

I'm seeing a steady stream of grain haulers with tandem trailers coming to Thunder Bay. That can't be too profitable. Local outfit hauling grain out of west is all B trains.