The truth about the " Trucker Shortage "

Them drugs they are busted for are used by the services to keep the person more awake and aware, it is okay for the ones defending our country to use while on duty but then after they become a workforce worker it is not. And some of them are not easy to get off of I guess with all the pain medications they screaming about everyone hooked on. Something does not add up.

 

I'm,sure that's a small portion of it but good 'ol boy or not I don't want to be on the road with anyone who's tweaking. I've been driving for 24 years and I have seen a lot as well. My take on the so called shortage is, if you treat people like crap they won't stay and do the job.

 

I think that’s absolutely correct.

 

Veteran drivers should know if they play with fire one day they might get burnt. All cdl holders should be aware of this law.

If that random means they lose the house truck car wife and family in a months time then they were already living way too close to the edge. I have no sympathy and it's not like this is a tall order. Want to drive commercially? Then don't screw around, those days are long gone. I don't feel like this a government overreach.

 

Things have changed rather drastically since the days of the CDL Licensing back in the early 90's And evolved even more from there. In those days there was no chance that Pot was legal at all. Now you have states that say it's either lawful for medical, recreational or both. No wonder people are more likley as not to have something in thier system when they go up against a hair test or a drug test.

But that's ok, there are still plenty of people in that orientation who passed a drug test. But may have been damaging equiptment or running into stuff or something else.

Computers are more for enforcement than anything else these days. If my 11 hours is up 2 hours from delivery? Fine Im parking. No problem. If Dispatch or company wants to demand I finish the delivery then I document everything and go home to the labor board on them after I am fired for saying no and get a new appt time.

The knowledge is still there even though I am not active anymore. I don't expect to be active again. That is a loss of about roughly 20+ years of prime working productivity. And a unimaginable economic loss as well since disability does not begin to break even and will never do so.

Some companies are just going to have to evolve as well and become more professional. Or go out of business.

 

Some companies will not change and we are seeing the effects now, used equipment is huge right now, but buying one of those trucks will be like playing with a loaded gun, they did not care enough to take care of the drivers, you think they will keep care of the equipment? Just a changing of the guards.

 

Seriously , 20 years and you think it's because of randoms, lmao.
smh.