Posted on 12/16/2021 8:38:10 AM PST by dynachrome
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg will join Labor Secretary Martin J. Walsh and National Economic Council Director Brian Deese in unveiling details behind the Biden-Harris Trucking Action Plan during a White House roundtable with trucking-industry leaders.
The trucker shortage, which the industry has warned of since at least the 1980s, has reached critical mass, as COVID-19 shutdowns have triggered widespread layoffs while temporarily closing the state DMVs and driver-training schools that serve as the industry’s pipeline.
A senior administration official said the problems that the plan aims to address are longstanding and not merely a result of industry shake-up from the pandemic.
“But in this worker-centered recovery, these new investments and infrastructure, and this new focus by this administration, gives us the opportunity to work together across industry, government and labor to take these challenges on,” the official said.
The plan aims to put more drivers behind the wheel by stepping up initiatives to recruit more military veterans into the industry, and by launching an apprenticeship accelerator aimed at helping employers start or grow their apprenticeship programs.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Drunks behind the wheel of trucks , great
Just remove the drug testing. You’ll have more drivers than you could shake a Thai stick at.
Now everything’s all better./s
Any “plan” from the radicals at the White House is and will be destructive.
What a novel idea - why it would mean paradise, a "workers" paradise....
We are being replaced because they plan on us being dead from the “vaccines” and “boosters” that the illegals are not required to accept.
Waiting for the labor wage arbitrators to chime in....
So simple even a Republican can understand it.
The democrats regulated the independent truckers out of business and now they want to replace them with ‘cheap’ labor.
Sure...and remove any liability for accidents and/or acts of terrorism. AND no vetting.
LGBTQWERTYs behind the wheel?!?
I preferred Sheriff Lobo over BJ and the bear.
For a trucker show, Movin On.
Okay, If YOU owned a trucking company would you want to put a person behind the wheel of a $200K tractor, pulling a $90K trailer with some ones product on/in that trailer that could not pass a drug test?
Do you have any idea what the liability insurance alone costs for a trucking company?
This clip fired up neurons in the deep recesses of my brain...and I remembered correctly - BJ and the Bear.
“stepping up initiatives to recruit more military veterans into the industry”
LOL. So the truckers who get fired for being unvaxxed will be replaced by the vets who got discharged for being unvaxxed???
after reading the headline, my only thought was “about time there was someone behind the wheel. Current pResident is asleep at the wheel.”
Smoky and the Bandit. Jackie Gleason was just plain hilarious.
Yikes. Time to “stay home” and stay the hell off the roads. It’s going to be slaughter out there.
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