60 Minutes Finally Exposes That There Is NO Trucker Shortage In America 🤯 

The media is creating the narrative so they can be used to create legal reason for autonomous trucking.

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I don't even work in trucking - never have - but even _I_ knew the recent reports of a "trucker shortage" was a lie. All you have to do is listen to truckers, and they will tell you that this is a constant narrative that's been put out for years to try to get more out of truckers while giving them less

Load of BS, the empty containers do NOT sit on the trailer. When an empty is brought back, it is taken OFF the trailer and stacked. The driver then gets in line to grab a new full container. The driver transports it and returns with another empty container. The issue is all the empties clogging up the port, making it take 3 times as long to retrieve a full container for loading onto a truck. The only solution is to set up a "staging" area on adjacent property, to stack the empty containers in groups (Hapag-Lloyd has their empties together, Evergreen has theirs together, etc.) Once the empty container situation is dealt with, the ports will be back to running 3 loads per truck per day. My reference is not a trucker, but someone who works in the ports and has a deep understanding of how they work. See for yourself ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-QNVacUza2J4.html

@@paulreed7698 Autonomous trucking is coming whether we like it or not.

Bingo

@Earl James Also use the national guard, free tax funded labor. But ultimately automation.

@Earl James It's both. Those in truck cameras and other data they gather on you are being used to train the AI to drive the trucks better too.

Yes. Same with the "fast food worker shortage." Truth is, there are no labor shortages.

@Earl James that too. They want to justify allowing in all the illegals

Hmm! Exactly this is a lie which has been around since I was trucking back about 20yrs ago. Not sure if it was started by the trucking industry or government! #SMH #keepontruckin 🇺🇸👍🏼

There is a shortage at least where I’m at they even started an in house school and paying you while you learn just to get truckers in a lot of people left during the pandemic it didn’t affect all truckers but since we deal in reefer a lot of customers cut orders way down which left a lot of people not making enough starting to bounce back though

@@Pyrex_lex Damn I wish there was something like tha there. I want my CDL just for the hell of it. Seems you can get into so many different positions with it.

@@Lilmiket1000 worth it if you don’t mind being in the truck I’m looking at close to 90k my first year

'Susan Storm' in 'Fantastic Four': ... "Ya' think!"

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Not the Mainstream Media, they don't dare ask this administration a real question. The reporters are afraid they will be cancelled and fired.

The trucking industry is parasitical more so than any other industry. There are so many people in the pockets of drivers and owner operators. You’re responsible and do all the work but everyone wants their slice from your pocket, then they talk to you like you’re a POS.

@@serggla924 yes, and I give it to them like they give it to me

AMEN !!, AMEN!! AMEN!!

Nobody that truckers deal with on a day to day basis is happy unless they are screwing the truck drivers

@@melvinrexwinkle1510 you sir speak the truth

Lots of new inexperienced drivers make such dangerous driving conditions.

I found that to be true of other types of employers as well. If they're always hiring, don't bother applying.

@@maxboya Though I don't disagree. How then does one become an experienced driver without going out there to get the experience? Driving trainers can only do so much. Even then it is supervised with answers handed to them and no critical thinking involved. I see this copy/paste response a lot in the youtube world. It's the rookies! Yea....like you were years ago. Instead of being a grumpy old head. Help the new guys out.

A slap in the face. To KNOW that honest clean hard working o/o can basically name their own price, yet call a new company, hear the recruiter with an upbeat bubbly voice say, .72cts a MILE!!! The gall and audacity in 2021 any company that will rob another hard working o/o human being at .72cts. with all their own equipment!!! Still insulted. How dare you?!

Did you ever attend a school?

@Jessie Morris You are talking about the ports trying to charge the shipping container companies. I was talking about the shipping container companies themselves. Which has made more profit in this year alone than all the previous 10 years combined. 2 years ago it cost 3k to rent and ship a container from China to LA. This year it cost anywhere from 16k to 23k per container.

@Jessie Morris it's ok man apologies accepted. The main stream media has tried to put it all on a trucker shortage. When actually it is a chassis shortage. And now we know why.

It's not just the port its EVERYWHERE. I do LTL in the city and essentially pick up all the freight that goes on on OTR driver's trailers. 1 skid there, two skids there, etc. Small shippers? These guys sometimes have me loaded before I even get a chance to put my wheel chock on. Big shippers? 30 minutes to get through security, another 15 minutes to go inside and get docked, and then possibly 2-3 hours to deliver/pick up 2 skids. One time I was at large produce place for over 3 hours to deliver 2 skids . Dispatch got pissed off and said forget it, get out of there and get the dock workers name (they are going to bill them for wasting our time). I go to the back and there some kid there maybe 18-22 years old on his phone. I ask for his name and he gives me attitude (knowing hes going to hear about this later). Trucker shortage my ass. The shortage is at the warehouse. Some of these guys have 30 doors that are full with 4-5 people to service them. I get paid hourly so I really don't give a shit but man if I was mileage i'd lose my shit.

Spot on!!!

That what I hated the most, it’s worse if they are union people too!

Yep, and lumpers are a scam.

When i was a shipper for Nortel we could load a 53 footer in around 20 minutes with 22 double stacked pallets +1 single.......Truckers loved picking up at our house, and we still had time to share a laugh & a smoke.

Yeah, if everything is on pallets. I worked receiving for years, and we hated seeing the big semis coming in with several thousand loose boxes (Christmas decorations or Sterilize and Rubbermaid shipments were notorious for that). Hours spent sorting the boxes onto pallets and pulling them out of the container. If it was our contracted OTR company, the driver would just drop the container and take away another container, but the independent drivers had to wait until we got done.

Agreed!!!!

Lol!

They blame it on the fact that the industry is dominated by private interests, they aren't exactly telling the whole truth.

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And arabs

Shortage of driving drivers... and good drivers.

yea thats true too. They are more lineant to who they let in. because I know of some idiot ass drivers. Driving like its a race car. swerving in and out of traffic and speeding.

@@Lilmiket1000 I see it too much. And they will pull in front of you in the fast lane with a 1 second warning. Then hold up both lanes so cars can't get through when they could have waited 7 seconds to let people pass then go around a slower truck going 65. I've seen them go 90 and play games with civilian cars out of spite. They are supposed to be professional. Also swerving on a regular street almost hitting cars..

@@rafaeltorre1643 I even saw a trucker in the carpool lane on the 22 freeway in Garden Grove California recently.

@@PumaPete That's hilarious but extremely dangerous. It seems like a more modern phenomenon. Like the past 5 to 10 years. Before that I'd rarely see truckers act anything but professional. Good truckers wont risk their record and safety over an upset 4 wheeler or getting somewhere faster. They rarely care about building up a traffic jam on the freeway. They will happily block the entire highway passing another trucker for 10 minutes because they want to go 1mph faster at 66. While traffic piles up with 4 wheelers waiting to go the speed limit of 75.

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@@Freeeeeeeedoooooooom This is what happens when anti-monopoly laws are not enforced by the DOJ. Dems used to be all about stopping monopolies, but now.... lol.

I doubt a shortage would have influenced those changes.

I hoped too lol. Just like when the economy drop for some gains can be made during these times if you play your cards right.

Just goes back to what I said when they were just starting to talk shutdowns. Eventually just about every job becomes essential because you need them too so the "Essential" workers can do their job.

Yes, no shortage of licensed drivers...just a shortage of licensed drivers that also drive

What law is that? I live in California and I just bought a truck and I know many owner operators in California. I know you can't lease on with another company but thats all I heard of.

🤣😂🤣 right!!!

The place I worked at unloaded a 53' worth of servers (1 layer) with pallet jacks and a liftgate in under 2hrs. (I was on one of the pallet jacks. Hustle is the key. ) Absolutely no reason a Dock unload takes more than that. BTW Get rid of lumpers (the method). they seem to unload multiple trucks at a time with a tiny crew, thus spreading the time

Why? A trucker shortage is not defamation of truckers. It's not a truckers fault that more people do not choose the same profession... nobody thinks that. If anything a trucker shortage raises the reputation of truckers.

@@davids4063 Blaming drivers for the problems that were caused is defamation. the action of damaging the good reputation of someone is by google definition. Blaming drivers for the supply crisis is in fact defamation.

they should also know the difference between quilting and litigation

You dont have a case...if they named you personally and you could prove it hurt you somehow..then maybe yes

@Hayze Productions Blaming a trucker shortage is not blaming drivers though.

Who’s paying that in TX?

Go into driving and give it a go. Investigate the companies. Get feedback from seasoned drivers on good companies, so you drive for a good company from the get go. Best of luck to you mate...