[PGR88]

Another controlled "industry association" using scare tactics about "truck driver shortages" and promoting propaganda about needing foreign truck drivers, for the goal of suppressing wages.

[Alberta's Child]

They've been discredited over the years and finally gave up on the propaganda because this is one of several topics where the ATA (representing large trucking firms) and the independent drivers are in complete disagreement.

There never was a truck driver shortage. The real problem is that the industry has difficult working conditions and a dysfunctional driver compensation system.

[Liz]

The ATA is feeling the heat-——all those non compis mentis
visa’ed Indian drivers killing people on the say-so of the ATA.

[millenial4freedom]

regardless of whether or not any industry has a 'shortage' of prospective workers, it is up for the employers of these workers to adjust compensation to attract the talent it seeks.

no ifs, ands, or buts...that's how a free-market works.

[ETCM]

American Trucking Associations (ATA) has relentlessly pushed the narrative of a catastrophic truck driver shortage—60,000 positions unfilled, supply chains teetering on collapse—to manipulate policy and flood the market with cheap, underqualified labor.

They saw how successful Big Tech was was with H-1b and decided they could play the same game. Of course, anyone who thinks Americans should be filling these jobs is just a xenophobe and racist.