Tag: driver shortage

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Why do drivers leave? Pay has a lot to do with it, but …

Many are quick to say it is a driver-pay problem, but that’s not all. In trucking companies’ rush to grow, they devalue the freight market, notes owner-operator Clifford Petersen, and in doing so trade their pricing power in favor of a questionable status quo where driver time itself is devalued.

September 20, 2019

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Though fleets churn through drivers, there’s no evidence of ‘driver shortage,’ says DOL economist

Driver turnover is persistently high, and carriers have trouble filling seats. But that doesn’t mean there’s a shortage of those willing to drive a truck, says DOL economist Kristen Monaco. She penned a report in March painting the “driver shortage” as a myth — and tiffed ATA in the process…

September 12, 2019

Voices

Reader: There is in fact a regs constraint on the driver market

Reader Alfred Brock found a particular constraint on the driver market in his home state of Michigan — namely, a program for CDL training funding assistance that wasn’t being funded.

May 28, 2019

Overdrive Extra

Why trucking’s labor market isn’t really ‘broken’

Agreeing with truckers, the study concludes that pay could indeed mitigate fleets’ labor woes.

March 26, 2019

Business

Federal report casts serious doubt on ‘driver shortage’

The report, published by BLS, contends that though fleets struggle with driver retention, there’s little evidence of a shortage of those willing to drive a truck, pushing back against what it calls the “industry’s own account” that there’s a labor shortage in the long-haul trucking segment.

March 19, 2019

Channel 19

Tuesday round-up: The boomerang of brokers’ claims offsets; LGBTQ trucking; large carrier channels inner owner-op on ‘shortage’

Check out Overdrive Online's lastest trucking industry roundup news which focuses on freight brokers, LGBTQ truck drivers and the truck driver shortage.

February 26, 2019

Business

OOIDA contends that growth in small fleet, owner-op numbers play large role in driver turnover

A new report from the OOIDA Foundation suggests the “truck driver shortage” perceived by larger fleets is more of a myth than a reality. See why on Overdrive.

February 25, 2019

Channel 19

At risk of repeating oneself … Pay and the ‘driver shortage’

More evidence improving financial and other conditions for drivers and owner-operators, and a shift in carriers’ top recruiting concerns to those of retention, will pay dividends for the overall economic health of trucking. That goes for the markets independents operate in, too.

November 29, 2018

Channel 19

Better ‘pay would solve most’ critical issues: Readers’ priorities show variation from, similarity to recent rankings

While “the economy” does figure as a critical issue year-in year-out in the annual ATRI “critical issues” rankings, issues of adequate driver compensation — and rates for independent truckers — don’t command the same direct attention. All the same, as one reader noted, better “pay would solve most” problems.

November 16, 2018

Voices

Trucking ‘in trouble’ if it doesn’t solve the payroll problem for drivers

Peter Harrigan says that if all trucking companies started paying that rate, the millennial would be flocking to this industry. Details on Overdrive.

September 5, 2018

Overdrive Extra

The chicken-little tactics behind the ‘driver shortage’

Here is a breakdown of how and why the trucking industry continuously responds to the shortage of truck drivers. Some aren't taking the bait anymore.

August 2, 2018

Channel 19

New bill would require study of driver loss as a result of mandated ELDs

The bill, should it succeed, would require the DOT Secretary to study the extent to which the ELD mandate has driven professional drivers from the industry.

July 3, 2018