Help Wanted: Truck Drivers to Unclog the Supply Chain | WSJ 

There is no trucker shortage I repeat: THERE Is NO TRUCKER SHORTAGE! Only a shortage in pay and quality of life! I’m an owner operator telling you that the trucker shortage is a myth.

As some of you mentioned, it's not the shortage. Driving a truck puts too much toll on health, compensation is not adequate and families fall apart because drivers on the road for months. How do I know this? I was a driver myself. I went from one job to another, from one employer to another and got tired. Don't see myself going back anytime soon or ever! Another note, truck drivers are very important essential workers. But they never get credit for what they do. We hear more about military and hospital personel that they are heroes, that they are Frontline workers. No argument about it. But t what about the truck drivers? Who is gonna be grateful to those poor souls?? America and world overall is messed up place, and COVID-19 brought the craziness out!

Its not a worker shortage, its a pay shortage.

There is no driver shortage..Pay the existing drivers better and you’ll stop losing drivers.

There is not a shortage of drivers. There is a shortage of drivers that are willing to work for the still low wages quoted in this video. Any company that pays drivers $200k a year has enough drivers.

3 main reasons I see for the shortage. Over regulation, pay shortage, and blood sucking lawyers and the court system giving drivers the shaft to get their big paychecks.

I was a truck driver for 4 years from 05-09. No way, you can keep that God forsaken work. Underpaid, overworked, under appreciated, and it's beyond a hostile work environment...it's a hostile work industry. It'll challenge the mental health of a person. It'll break most people down.

As a 30 year veteran driver, I wouldn't work for Swift for 500k a year.

Truckers get ripped off by the companies they work for too often for me to be interested

Here in Ontario, Canada, a AZ driver makes $22 to $24/hr. Meanwhile, a forklift driver makes $25/hr, and he's home every night.

It's not really just pay, but some people just aren't comfortable driving commercial vehicles. It's a bit nerve-wracking.

Turnover for truck drivers in fleets with more than $30 million of annual revenue was 92% at the end of 2020, meaning roughly 9 out of every 10 drivers will no longer be working for that company in a year.Nov 12, 2021

Truckers were worried two years ago that their job will be extinct. But the pendulum swung. Ironic

I started in this industry on May 2021, my age 56 years old, there is one thing that bothers me the most, lacking to parking, in Union City Georgia my truck was booted and a instant pay and leave $500 at huge empty parking commercial plaza at 11:00 pm, pay or get towed 🤦🏻‍♂️ Pay $500 and leave immediately, even after I paid I was not allow to take my mandatory 10 hour break, so jump to a ramp at highway entrance and sleep with all that high speed noise 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️ Truck stops, some charge for parking, enormous amounts of trucks and bunch of don't take care drivers throwing trash and urine at those truck stop parking lots, diesel pumps with diesel spills, this industry needs to be reinvented.

sign on bonus are a scam. You don't get it until a curtain months are achieved and then you don't even get all of it

Low pay, danger, harassment by shippers, receivers & law enforcement. Poor quality health insurance, lousy hours & never home! Trucking companies treat drivers like trash! Companies quote rules that aren't in the company rulebook. Automobile drivers cause a huge, major portion of truck/car accidents! Total BS job! Get a job at McDonalds, you'll make more money in the long run! Almost forgot to mention that trucking in the future will be self driving vehicles, drivers will be forced back to flipping burgers. In 5-10 years there will be no need for over the road drivers

pay more if you want to retain drivers because Covid 19 took with it the majority of them.

Don't do it guys these are lies I'm telling you for your own good

yOU COMPLETELY SKIPPED THE OVERWHELMING DIVORCE RATE!!

This is a job for young, single people. Do 3-4 years and save up your money. Like going into the military without angst.

There is no shortage of truck driver cannot believe WSJ cannot do this simple research. It is how a truck driver is utilized. How many hours is your truck waiting to get loaded and off loaded? During these delays the truck driver are not compensated or poorly compensated.

You live out of a truck and truck stop for weeks but you make 60k a year WOW!! What a attractive life style.

The government says there is a driver shortage but what the government don't tell you is they are making it harder and harder to become truck driver or just to be a truck driver. The government is the problem.

I was doing otr but elog came in and I went out now I’m home every day best move

Its not a trucker shortage

Ask the DOT what they're goin to do when we're all gone. LOL

This segment shows how trucking industry emposter sees their perspective and not from a truck driver perspective. Absolutely nothing they said isn't true, let's go Brandon from former truck driver.

Umm trains? They much more efficient but for some reason the US doesn’t have them

Reduce regulations, then reduce requirements for hours on the road. Pay increases for OTR work. Local driving allows drivers home time.

Plus truckers don't get while they wait for loading so the true hourly wage isn't as attractive.

Notice How The Ad Reminded You Of A Get-Rich-Quick-Scheme-Infomercial ?? There Is Good Reason For That

young ppl do not do trucking. it ll mess your health up and those bonuses are scam. Its a very stressful job. Do your research by talking to older truckers.

They don’t need truck drivers All they did was turn off the cranes to unload the boats just turn the cranes back on and the problem will be solved.

im class b and cant get anything . class a 3 yrs exp needed home once a month eld b.s. no waiting pay you cover your own insurance all kinds of fees NO PARKING!!! NO PARKING but then no lee way if i go over my on duty times by even minutes to find it you get counted for on duty time to run to a store for food .bathroom essentials it chips into your wage better off flipping fries without the responsibility and paying for cdl skills its not worth it if your lucky and find a nice boss great but theywant to get a new audi and your gonna chip in

I've been an over the road trucker for 12 years, it takes patience and guts to do this job!

My brother didn’t go to college but he is making bank after getting his trucking license. And I’m here stuck in university 😂😂🤦🏽‍♂️

There are so many immigrants that drive trucks as it’s perfect profession for new comers.

Being responsible for such a monstrous machine and having to drive on todays roads full of psychosis has got to rank high in the worst job ever category. You would have to love it or you wouldn't last.

The industry is to boom and bust. I quit driving 12 years ago because there just wasn't a demand for drivers. I had a class 1 with 2 years highway and mountain experience. No tickets and never damaged a tractor trailer or freight. And always good relations with customers and dispatch/drivers/yard workers. Yet all I was able to get was 5 ton in town deliveries. Sure there is big demand right now, but how long will that last? Maybe right now I could make more driving then I get working in an office. However my office job pay is going to stay stable for years. Truck driving not so much.

I’m currently studying for my CDL. I want to be apart of the solution.

Nope, don’t even think about it. Trucking sucks. For every imaginable reason.

Capitalism …. you get what you pay for. Low pay equals few drivers.

Just offer green card to other country’s truck driver , problem solved

These/that sign on bonus are lies you get it over time. The trucking companies don't understand what sign on bonus means.

Power to the trucker not the brokers! You become a driver because you like driving and travelling. If somebody interferes with that then why drive!

Lies bate you in kick you out broken or dead broke.

Their wages don't reflect it. There's a $10,000 sign on bonus, they don't tell you then negatives that cost us money. I'm a truck driver in Toronto, I've been waiting 4 days for work with my current company

Hot take: we've got a freight rail shortage

There has to be reasons why people don't want to do this job.

Forget the Bonus give us better pay...

This is where migrants and refugees can help developed nations. They can work in both blue collar jobs and white collar jobs. They are satisfied with the existing minimum wage rates and they save in that.

They are putting self driving trucks on the road as we speak.

So where are all those autonomous trucks that were supposed to leave millions jobless?

Trains....boom solved it

Can not get new trucks 6 month minimum

Dumping prices/wages, parking shortages, be treaded like a dog, unreasonable penalty,s for to long working, ..... soon You have automatic trucks, don't worry!!!!!

The Wall Street journal should have there license to report the news REVOKED! The trucking rates are at an all time LOW!! The WSJ is being paid by ATA to report FALSE information.

So the lesson to learn is that loyalty to a company is worthless when they are paying you to quit and work for someone else. Gotta love Capitalism. Also, I work for Knight/Swift. Dunno where they are pulling this 60k a year from.

A lot of older truck drivers are retiring, but trucking companies won't hire new drivers unless they have at least two years of experience.

look at the spot rates in the trucking industry. If there were a shortage of drivers, shippers would be outbidding each other to get their loads hauled. That's not the case, therefore no shortage. Another fact to be confronted is, if there is a shortage of 70 or 80 000 drivers, wouldn't it mean that there are 80 000 loads being left on the nation's loading docks and not getting hauled?? Again, not the case, so no shortage.

This is just another BS report. $10,000 bonus what a crock, they don’t tell you it’s $1000 a year for 10 years. There are more than enough truck drivers out there what we need is more warehouse workers and more warehouses to get this stuff unloaded in a timely manner.

For young people, this might not seem like a secure job because of self-driving cars.

B******* $60,000 with swift is working your life off. You don't even get to go home 70 hour weekly shifts. No thanks.

I wanna help... ...... But I'm _already_ a truck driver

Most truck drivers quit because theirs not enough pay and junk equipment too drive

I'm uber driver and willing to drive truck. I can buy my own truck. Let me know what's up.

Dont go to any ca port to much bs to

lets go brandon!

Women are free to do whatever they want in the U.S… clearly THEY don’t want to be truckers.

watching this video in 2023, I almost feel nostalgic at the mention of Yellow.

Truckers is the problem for higher inflation and we need Trudeau to set examples here

Just Run this promo in Punjab india, you will need to seek no further. =)

no matter how much money u give.. no one want to work truck driver for sure..

Stop lying because I’m sick of it, all you say about bonuses is one huge lie

Everyone wants truck drivers but no one wants to do the job.

I don't know what these people are talking about I'm a company driver I bring home anywhere from 1800 to $2,000 a week after taxes last year I saved up 75k paid off all my debt of 28k and bought a house paid for with cash and both of my vehicles are paid off truck driving has changed my life for the better and my company treats me like gold

If you do not improve working conditions first and secondly pay then just importing cheap labour can help you!

Trucking companies is built off of free labor loopholes. The money they owe you is the sign on bonus broken down 90 days to 12 months. 1 company truck with a driver who avg 2700 miles a week can generate 8- 13k per week for that company.

Absolutely no Truckers shortage

Sign on bonus look how it is given to new truck hired

Better conditions then better payment!

Stupid occupation now.. govt & Insurance ruined truckin.. screw yas all.!!!

End the mandate and maybe people will work for some of these companies

I am interesting trakingjob

Fully autonomous hydrogen fuel cell long haul trucks are the answer. Miles and miles of straight line highway driving.

Intellectweb are the best

enforcing mandates on these truck drivers is what led to these shortages

I am a trailer truck driver ..how to apply

y not self drive?

Nice video.

I want to job but how?

Work for Sysco

Propaganda!!

Is there a truckers union? If not, should be... Just saying.... The Teamsters maybe? Seems like somebody needs to join a union.

Isnt this a major red flag for inflation? If driver wages increase that much long term, then inflation is not transitory.

Heavilay *white* Virtue signaling

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How much does a truck driver make in a year in the USA??? In reality!

No more learning from Mom & Dad! you have to go through costly Schools to get it!!

i would apply if i on us ... its hard to get job here