The Driver Shortage Myth

I don’t know if the driver shortage is real, but there is a shortage of real truck drivers.

 

I think the definition has changed. Like so many other aspects of society today, we just change the standards and lower the bar. And a generation or two later, lo and behold, nobody is the wiser and we just accept the current as the new reality.

Trucking is drawing from a totally different worker pool than it was 30+ years ago.

 

Not a shortage,it is retention issue. Due to Low Pay, Poor Treatment of drivers by employers, shippers & receivers, Gov. and general public. Among other issues .

 

Govt has been paying for school for years.

 

Some places have orientation every week. They know how many will leave. They get a month or two before benefits kick in. It's a science.

 

Well that's just the propoganda people spew out for college. When I first started in college, this professor said, " If you came to college to get a job, make more money, things of that nature, you're not in college for the right reasons." A job is just a means to make money, nothing else. Some majors in college, can lead to a good living, majority do not. The reality is that people need some type of training and or education to get into a field where there's a steady living.

 

But how is it that that supply is both never ending and also not supplying enough?

 

There are shortages in all blue collar fields.
Around here the Trades are begging for workers
Carpenters, plumbers and electricians and all those jobs pay quite well once your a journeyman $30-40. An hr.