According to the American Transportation Research Institute, the shortage of truck drivers is causing a domino effect on manufacturers, consumers and corporations across the country.
No shortage .... no shortage .... When company drivers spend 5 days OTR and ends up with $500 .... you will never 👎 find drivers . Turn overs will be high rockets 🚀
Sorry no shortage. Truck driving is basically working 80 hour weeks. You will lose your family because you will never see them. The first year you will be lucky to make $500 for those 80hrs. %90 who start quit the first year.
In addition to low pay, how about the stress to deliver "on"(arbitrary)time. How about more time home so the drivers actually have a life and Children don't have to wonder when am I going to see my dad again. and livable rigs. How about encouraging couples teams. Every body want free shipping, they don't care about the people out there putting with STUFF on the road to make this country work, Nah they just click and wonder why it cant be there any sooner. If you work for a company they pay you peanuts. If You're an Owner/Operate the what to low ball your rate. You get what you pay for, don't cry about it.
I love how they talking about truckers shortage and not talking about increasing wage of the truckers. Yeah, lower the age from 21 to 18 and have 10 times more crashes. 21 is already too young. Minimum 23, preferably 25. This job requires certain level of maturity, which only comes with age.
18 is too young I agree with you on that but not 21. I'm 21 and I just got into truck driving as a flatbed OTR driver. People tell me all the time I don't act my age they always think I'm older until I tell them I'm only 21. With that being said I say it depends on the individual not the age unless they're under 21 which is understandable.
If you can send a 18 year old too war, you should be able to send them out in a truck. But yeah definitely need to up the wages for truckers. There is hardly any incentive.
exactly You can't expect a driver to work for peanuts that's why there is a lack of drivers, There are a lot of companies treat drivers with very little respect also.. I do extensive research before I would hire on with a company..Companies should step up there game and take care of the drivers.
Every time you see news stories like this one, we need to pick up the phone right away and call the stations to let them know about the ATA generated BS that they are spreading,'' I am getting so sick of copy-and-paste 'reporters' repeating this garbage.
When a truck driver with No experience cause accident, let’s say you crash in his rear trailer cause you were drunk and pissed off texting your x on the phone ...%99.99 you will find a lot of lawyer taking your case and sue the trucking company and probably you will ends up making some
@@cryptoanalysts5793 How can you have CDL experience when no job will hire you without CDL experience? Ive driven commercial vehicles for five years now with no incidence & will be getting my permit next month & after I’ll just have a license but, no job will hire me because I don’t have experience. The only thing I guess I can do is drive school buses for $14 an hour to get “some experience” smh
@@Yo_Bentley no there a lot off self insure company will hire you , like swift But can you live making $400-600 a week OTR ? That’s why people quitting most of the time ... Low pay not shortage ... absolutely no one hire a rookie cause it’s easy to go bankrupt with any accident may happened Plus 99% insurance company ask for at least 2 years before they will accept to take you It’s all about insurance
@@mobent912 you know what’s crazy , I own a trucking company and I absolutely 100% sure I won’t hire a NEW CDL driver Insurance high for rookies I guess for a good reason ...you should call ☎️ insurance companies and ask them why they charge triples for new drivers .... and tell them that those 10 and 20 years experience drivers cause more accidents than rookies and let me know what’s up
It's even worst for crude oil drivers. Earn 1k a week to haul a bomb around that's why I stopped hauling crude oil. Trucking pay sucks! You gotta be a owner operator to make it.
There’s just a lot of companies that don’t treat drivers well even though they’ll try to tell you otherwise on their websites. You would someone who has to spend a lot of time on the road alone would be treated very well by companies.
Oh we want to lower the age. Not pay more. Lower the age. This totally doesn’t have to do with terrible laws and regulations that allow mega corporations to corner markets and not pay their drivers and workers well.
Megacarrier take advantage of drivers. At the end longhaul truck driver are making same money as someone working at wearhouse. The average of per hour pay is about$12.40 cents only. That’s included you have to sleeep in teucka when you are overthe road.
The media don't get it. And also the ata is not for truck drivers in my opinion. Nobody is going to drive for goodwill. See how the media didn't ask goodwill how much they pay.
Its difficult to take anyone seriously who believes they can catch anything by simply breathing fresh air. This isnt ebola and its not tuberculousis. This hysteria is so out of control
When companies start hiring people off the street and training them in-house to drive their trucks; that will be when the driver shortage will go away.
It's been 32 years for me got my CDL in 1289 it was class D then but I had to go back to truck driving school to get my CDL that came out in 1990 1--1-1990. It was a shortage then because most of the drivers couldn't pass the CDL test..
Like everybody said low pay no home time working 70 hours a week for $600 and on top of that they all need experience, I have a cdl since 08/25/20 and no body hires me I apply all over no call back from company's
Because we are treated like garbage. I've been doing this since 2003. high hours, low pay... and we're expected to load and unload our trucks like mules.
I’m a trainer I’m not letting an 18 year old on my truck. I have only one rule no women on the truck I may have to add another rule if congress lets 18 year olds on the road
For the most part you just have to do your time with the mega carriers.I only made 33cpm or so when I started out but i still made 55k my first year. Just got to run hard and be dependable. Now with two years experience doing 100k this year.
Truck drivers need to demand $15,000 a load plus fuel , the predatory trucking industry that has taken advantage and ruined the lives of truckers is coming to an end they're going to have to pay up
Quit testing applicants for pot and your pool of applicants would more than double. Forget the feds and just do it. Trucking industry had a great track record prior to the advent of drug testing. There was no "safety crisis" regarding drug use among truck drivers. Reagan started that BS. A generation has come and gone since then. Let stoners drive again.
