Shortages and capacity trouble in the bulk industry.

Sales people want more capacity to keep the costs down.
Let the economy back-slide again and see where the rates are.
In the 40 years I have been in the trucking industry, there has always been a reason for trucking to be more lucrative ' in a few years '.
We were promised de-regulating freight would increase rates for us smaller companies. CDL licenses would reduce the number of drivers , and pay would jump up.Increasing the legal weight to a Nationwide 80,000 pounds would help the bottom line. Allowing 53 foot trailers would increase our payload, hence higher rates. Lower the driving hours and pay would increase. Allow foreign drivers in to fill the driver shortage. Schools can make an OTR driver in 3 weeks.It is all about supply and demand. If the industry needs more drivers, they will shortly appear.

Do not look for trucking to magically become a high paying, lucrative , easy career. It will always be trucking.

 

I don't know any Salespeople, But I DO know that this area is ramping up like crazy. The pay IN THIS AREA is going up. Mainly because ( I think ) there is a shortage of "qualified" drivers. Especially around here.

Also, The beauty of tankers is, it takes a certain "temperment" to drive tankers. NOT JUST ANY "driver" can do it.
There's to much to loose!!! For EVERYONE involved. So, yes, Lots will apply. But do they have the "temperment" for tankers. And employers are MOSTLY conscious of this.

No offense to the other forms of trucking, But you must admit, An accident is a terrible thing. But if I have an accident, that's bad enough. But MY cargo is sulfuric acid. If that tank should rupture, NOW you have 3500 Gallons of acid on top of you. Or Fuel ( possible explosion + fire ). Or Caustic. Or Alkali. Or........ You get the picture. You've just compounded things drastically.

No "SANE" employer is going to put up with a crappy driver in this side of trucking. So the pool shrinks drastically. Since I've been in tankers, the one thing I've noticed that's missing is "Cowboys"!!! I don't know about others, but the 2 tanker companies I've worked for, I can't think of 1 "cowboy" working for either one. Not saying there wasn't an A(&^%$&& or two. But no loose cannons.

I think Tankers, especially hazmat, is a field that's looking good for the future. Mainly because you have to have a certain "type" of person. You can train any monkey to drive Vans. As shown by CR England, Swift, Werner, Etc... Anyone???

But once you start moving into the other forms of trucking, you HAVE to start looking for a different type of driver and tankers is at the TOP of that list.

A tanker driver shortage is a good thing. It means they're not runnin' the drivers thru just to fill seats. There's to much to loose!!!

And just remember,


If at first you don't succeed
Skydiving is not for you

 

This is true. From what I've seen, the morons tend to weed themselves out pretty quickly. IF they manage to get hired, it doesn't take very long for them to start screwing up and get themselves fired.

 

Can someone list things that would disqualify drivers. I could think of a few things but I figure some stuff could be over looked..

Just Curious I guess

 

If you can sell the product for X amount of money, the less you pay for freight the more is left as profit. If the sales department has to pay higher freight rates than their competitor, they lose sales.
Believe me, sales people are ALWAYS looking for cheaper ways to ship product.

 

Well in one of the previous post someone said a manager had a stack of resume 30 to be exact and I was wondering what would disqualify so many drivers besides felonies and DWI's DUI's etc but was wondering what else on the list could stop companies from not hiring drivers