Haha..ATA has egg on their faces..

I never thought there was much of a drivers shortage. Just a good company shortage. Carriers don’t want to pay anything, and then wonder why they can’t get or retain drivers. It must be a drivers shortage!

 

its like saying theres a shortage of time share buyers lol of course there is and for good reason.

 

found this.....the author will reply if you write him

Busting the ‘Trucker Shortage’ Myth
Busting the ‘Trucker Shortage’ Myth

A valuable new study from the Bureau of Labor Statistics confirms that there is not, and has never been, a serious shortage of people willing to work as truck drivers. In fact, they find that “the market for truck drivers works about as well as that for other blue-collar occupations.”

 

I thought you were talking about my ex Anniya Trinity Alexander ATA.....

I was gonna say that’s not egg......

 

Money shot.

 

In my opinion it took a direct shot at the ATA and its members. To me it basically said there is high turnover and lack of retention in the truck load Long Haul part of trucking. Also went on to say that that could probably be remedied by higher wages. So there's not a driver shortage problem, there is an ATA problem. Just my opinion

 

It's very simple. There is a shortage of drivers that will work for. 42 a mile. Or sit for free twi hours then get $12 detention. Or get sent by Logistics to places a full sleeper should never go. Or get routed way from home and then its Friday. Or get called into a safety meeting with 5 people sitting around explaining how things go that have never been in a truck. Or setting you up to fail. Or dealing with a dispatcher that knows it all yet is out the door at 5 PM while you are going to be driving until 11 pm and not have a parking place. Lots of "ors" out there.

 

I started a,thread - The Daily Driver Shortage just to call BS on all the fake news, and chronicle it.

The only ones pushing the fake drI've shortage are the trucking rags.

Some guy from fleet owner wrote one a week or so ago, few thousand words, and it says NOTHING. 2000 words of generalization.