How many of your companies are struggling to find drivers?

Yes, thank god I went with XPO!!

 

You are correct, sir.

 

I deliver to willow run in kirkwood alot and they are always looking for drivers ....cant beat the scenery in that part of New York tho.

 

You're right. It's not a new problem though. I can remember my first boss complaining that "all the old time drivers who really want to work are gone",
LOL...that was in 1968 or thereabouts. He died a couple of years ago, still firmly convinced that if a driver didn't know how to oil the drive chains on his open-cab Mack or how to tie down with cables he was too green to hire
We've held steady on requiring five years of experience. We figure a driver should tear up somebody else's equipment, make all his rookie mistakes, and learn to appreciate what a good job is before he comes to us.
We have a good crew. Not perfect, nobody expects that, but good and steady.

 

You are right, easy to find drivers hard to find good drivers

 

There are a lot of great topics in this thread.

First off driving for US Foods and other food service companies isn't easy.
Although they are right up there with the health care workers, first responders delivering food to the schools, hospitals, markets, restaurants etc. Keeping us going through this virus, and I have a ton of respect for them.

Food service drivers should be on the upper scale of driver pay.

One point would be, It's not a matter of if, but when you tweek your back, shoulder knee, and you are on workers comp/ disability, and not making that top pay.

 

There use to be a farm on that property. I spent my summers there in the mid 70's as a kid. The family that owned the farm babysat my younger brother and I while Mom was at work.

The entire area is nothing but a ghetto now, it was once a great place to live.

 

as a driver that was terminated by a LTL company after nearly 6 yrs, with a clean CSA and DMV record, I found it’s upper management that holds drivers back from pursuing too further driving careers. it took two months for me to be rehired mainly because companies that were interested in bringing me on couldn’t get the proper employment screening from my former (laziness) employer. not too mention once you are deemed hirable it takes three weeks to get approved. they say there’s a shortage of drivers in the US, however I disagree. this past summer I leased a truck to see if I was interested in buying, what I found out there was a overage of foreign drivers and a shortage of available overnight parking.. these large companies waste finances and time hiring drivers, then their Driver Managers leave the drivers sitting in parking lots without a preplan for the weekend.. while the DM is sitting at the local Texas style steakhouse the driver, if they’re smart is plotting a way to return their equipment and go home the whole system needs scrapped and rewritten

 

Very well said. I srarted my driving career at age 18, got a union ltl job by age 22 bought a house etc & people said I made too much money for being a truck driver. My wife would jump their ### letting them know the hours sucked, hard work etc etc. They only saw the outcome not the effort.