Posted on 04/17/2022 9:22:50 AM PDT by blam
This sounds like hooey! Interstate 35 that runs from Laredo to Minnesota is full of traffic almost 24/7. Always huge volumes of trucks. New truck stops are being built all along I35 in Texas, catering to both trucks and the general car traffic. Road expansion is at a breakneck speed. It’s crazy to drive along 35, you take your life in your hands, and the hands of those drivers from south of the border.
Until he and Barak allow drilling fuel is still going to be expensive.
How can there be global warming when you have the latest snowstorm in recorded history? Please explain that Joe or Barak?
“I know of at least 4 warehouses full of hand sanitizer they can’t give that stuff away right now”
I knew the end was near for the covid hysteria when the Walmart by me had 1 gallon isopropyl on a pallet for $8. “Someone is scared of getting stuck with this...”
How does this article square with the ones saying we are short 80,000 truck drivers?
The trucking industry is one of the few where the customer sets the price of freight, and companies/independents bid to move the commodity. If there isn’t a shortage of drivers, the price remains cheap.
There is a shortage of quality management that knows how to manage their drivers, though. You can’t fix stupid.
Many retired.
Four more reasons for a shortage of trucks, of drivers.
Many retired. Rather than screw with vaccine mandates and crazy rules.
The Obama Era rules for “how long you can drive each day” cut in. So, now you see tens of thousands of truckers “have to stop” or be fined, lose their license. So, to carry the same freight-miles, you need 20% more drivers.
Higher diesel costs.
The California state rules for subcontractors cut out independent drivers.
The California port rules restricted the year and style of truck they will allow into the container ports. So, there are 30% fewer trucks that can even enter the port.
This problem was coming long before the current BS Covid and other hindrances to Commerce and the Supply Chain were recognized.
The Feds established the new Commercial Driver License regulations (CDL) back in the 1980s. Great plan, making among the simplest of skilled labor licensing more challenging to obtain. Americans became more and more disinterested in pursuing that line of work.
Meanwhile, more recently, Carriers (Common & Private) have to contend with intensely more regulation and fees while interest in the profession has waned. Thus, foreign workers are urged to apply for work in the industry despite having little understanding of our American way of doing things.
It is easier for some fellow wearing a turban, or speaking only Farsi, to get a CDL these days than it has been for an American Veteran for decades. These people are given Haz Mat Endorsements and more just because they show up. It is insane what is being permitted on our Highways in recent years.
Is that a shortage or is the industry so unfriendly to o/o that its rubbing them out while making up the loss with company drivers? This is the worst time to be an o/o without a set list of dependable customers.
The 80k shortage in 2017 is still 80k shortage in 2022. Nothing changed.
Freight is still cheap, which means the customers are having no problem finding drivers to ship loads. Free market is happening except in the case of when large company trucks intentionally underbid at a loss in order to take business from independents and smaller truck companies.
I watch this truck youtube channel and the guy has been saying for weeks that the amount he gets for loads is not as good as it was before. He said in his last video he took a load just to fill up his fuel tank which now can be nearly $1,000
Good graphic source for gasoline/diesel across the county and up to date.
https://www.eia.gov/petroleum/gasdiesel/
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