The Driver Shortage Myth

Who raised em?

 

Cell phones, IPads, video games, etc.

 

That's what I mean, not their parents. I'm not a millennial or one of their parents, squarely in between, but anyone who has a problem with the previous generation has no one to blame but themselves. Raise your kids, spoil your grandkids. Spoil your kids, raise your grandkids.

 

Today’s public schools can undo a lot of the best intentions and parenting tactics of parents. It’s practically a lost cause if you have to let your kid get indoctrinated in public schools for 12-13 if their most formidable years and the progressives in government know this all too well.

 

Actually hadn't really thought of it that way before and when you put it like that yeah it don't look like there's a real shortage of anything hey? So i wonder where they started this story about the country being short drivers ? Unless they are just referring to OTR

 

I don't agree or disagree with that. I believe it is location, location, location. My wife has taught in a great school system here in Tennessee for 20+ years and I'm not saying hers is good because it's ours, I'm saying we moved here because it was good! Politics/government isn't the problem with schools nearly as much as certain parent thinking the schools should raise their children and then pitching a fit when they don't.

 

This is probably a true point.

It’s the 48 OTR segment that focus on longer freight moves (somebody has to do it) that has the most difficult time finding and keeping drivers. Very few good drivers also have the “life situation” to allow for this type of lifestyle.

 

Theres a shortage of good drivers. By good I mean a driver with over five years of varied experience, a clean record, a stable job history, some mechanical ability, not a boozer or a doper, and a good work ethic.
There's a shortage of guys that will show up every day, do their job, not tear anything up, get along with people, and look for ways to make everything more safe and efficient.
There's definitely a shortage of people like that.
There's a shortage of drivers that can do OS off road work and not create a disaster every time they go out.
There's a shortage of tanker drivers, dry or wet, that take the extra care and time necessary to do a good job.
There's a shortage of flatbed drivers who can tie down and tarp, day after day in all kinds of weather, and still do a good job.
There's a shortage of drivers that really know how to chain up and drive in the snow. There's a shortage of drivers that know when not to drive in the snow.
There's a shortage of drivers that really know how to adjust brakes, change a marker lite, fix an air leak, change an alternator, and do tire work.
For us, as a company, there's always a shortage of drivers. That's why we work hard to hire good ones and try to keep the ones we have. We'd rather have a truck sitting for awhile than put some idiot in the seat that winds up costing us money.