What to do about the driver shortage?

The constant stack of new resumes i get, tells me there is no driver shortage.

 

Indeed. No driver shortage here.

Treat them right, pay them well, get them home when they need to be home, and don't ever tell them you'll do something or they'll get something and not deliver on the promise. Suddenly you'll be pounding on the shop to get a driver's truck back on the road immediately because there's no vacant truck available into which the driver can move, and you'll have a funnel of people ready to jump ship from their current employer and come on board the moment you have a truck available.

 

This. It's mostly common sense. A company gets the kind of drivers it deserves. If a company is always hiring it's a huge red flag about either pay or working conditions. Usually both.
There is no driver shortage.

 

Exactly…good drivers really dont like being lied to..that is probably one the biggest if not the biggest issue..credibility is very important to many folks.

 

Not exactly. I drive for a 400 truck company, and they have turned down freight from several of our more trifling customers. We probably fire two a year.

 

The industry will do very little to abate the so-called “shortage”. It will keep doing the same lying, two faced BS, continue the same generally crap pay and very little respect drivers face from shippers/receivers, the public, brokers, law enforcement, etc. and of course the perky trained, generally brainless new generation of drivers will continue to be its own worst enemy.

basically the trucking industry is a shell of its former self. It basically flushed out generations of veteran, experienced drivers and replaced them with idiots I wouldn’t trust with a bicycle. And not just big companies. A lot of small companies have started doing this when they get bought out or handed down to a greedy new generation of management that is more interested in pushing older drivers out, and uses “self help” garbage(for example “dale Carnegie school of backstabbing”) instead of common sense or basic honesty.

 

Driver shortage never existed to begin with. There are too many drivers. Supply and demand dictates the money. If you were paying someone to move your cargo and I say I'll move it for 2 bucks a mile but then someone else says they'll move it for 1.50 a mile, who are you paying? Sure as hell wouldn't be me. There are too many low-ball drivers. Period. Don't believe me? Go into any Pilot or TA restroom at 7am and count how many people are washing their feet in the sinks and gagging themselves with toothbrushes. Have to get in line just to wash your hands after using the toilet. You're better off using the sink at the coffee pots. Back on subject. Get every driver to just go home for 2 weeks all at the same time and then watch the bean counters start throwing money at anyone to move their freight. Shut down every truck in the country all at once and the entire national economy will crash. Probably the world economy in fact. That's the power that truck drivers actually have. Just go home for 2 weeks. That's it. Too bad it'll never happen.

 

He was never a driver. That’s a common lie told to drivers by safety personnel right before safety personnel starts talking down to drivers.