Sounds like the free market will push wages higher. Or other forms of transport will be found.
Why would anyone want to do this when they pay 40 cents a mile, you are regulated up the ass, if you get a ticket the ticket cost a fortune, you are away from your family for what could be weeks at a time. No thanks. They want more drivers then pay them by the hour a good salary, it will also stop them from driving 90 mph to make as much money as they can. I saw a rig crash into the support beam of a bridge a few months ago in Massachusetts, going way way way too fast and he lost control in a turn and BANG
They’re quitting for better pay/perks and better treatment.
What could be a solution?
Truck driving is one of the few areas where people can make big bucks without a college degree, but to make that money, you put in long hours with very little personal or family life.
Well self driving trucks are coming.
Solves the labor shortage issue, the sleep/staying awake issue, the ticket issue, the crash issue.
But now we’ll need more jobs for unemployed truck drivers.
It’s a very unhealthy lifestyle, prone to blood clots and unhealthy eating.
“The low pay and lack of benefits for truck drivers is what’s driving the lack of employees. Drivers are hired, but when there’s little pay-increase opportunities, they leave.”
I am no economist but I heard that there is thing called the law of supply and demand that might provide a solution to this difficult conundrum. Crazy, I know.
I work in Logistcs. The ridiculoous level or regulation placed on driver during the Obama regime is driving many older drivers out of the business. They aren’t going to drive and face almost daily harassment from the state and federal bureaucracy. I know many long time drivers who simply gone to do something else rather then deal with the Govt over regulation.
They imposed 60 billion in new regulation that EVEN the safety Nazis admit might save less then 100 lives a year.
THIS is the new fascism now that the Global Warming scam does not work with voters. Claim you are imposing onerous regulation in the name of “SAFETY”
I don’t know anything about trucking. But this thread makes me wonder, how are pay scales set for truck drivers? Who pays them? Do trucking companies have contracts with retailers such as Wal Mart, or do big stores such as Wal Mart hire their own truck drivers?
Higher pay to compensate for issues in trucking sounds appealing, but then there’s the question of how they get paid, and who pays them, and where does the money come from to pay the drivers. And also, are the wages and benefits not subject to supply and demand? Is the shortage an artificial shortage?
There is nothing the government can do about your little problem.
Perhaps you could raise their wages and give them more incentives?
Or do you prefer to cry in your milk?
Too ,amy ‘employees’ today can NOT pass drug tests.
Counter help——truck drivers-—you name it.
Some companies are now even testing long time employees-—not just potential new hires.