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Overdrive Radio

Audio mailbag from the ‘driver wage shortage’

In this mailbag podcast, an owner-operator out of Charlotte, N.C., offered an addition to the “driver shortage” phrase that he — along with many others — feels might well clear things up a bit. He’s not the first to say it, but it bears repeating.

March 24, 2016

Voices

‘No surprise’: Voices following report on driver pay’s historic fall

Reader Thomas Lawson had this to say about news of a new analysis of driver wage growth — lack thereof, in fact — over the 35 years since 1980: “And this is a surprise to whom?”

March 9, 2016

Voices

Driver shortage: Readers weigh in on turnover, rates, pay, working conditions and more

What’s your view? Respondents to recent polling expressed widely different views about a driver shortage. About half of readers consider it real, while the other half view it as myth or primarily a misnomer for other things, low pay chief among them.

February 8, 2016

Business

Driver shortage: Where are the empty shelves?

How the “driver shortage” topic became a mainstream media staple, marked by stories that often stress the job opportunity angle, occasionally conjuring images of empty trucks and bare store shelves.

February 4, 2016

Business

Bedtime stories at the Trucker home

Daddy Trucker’s son gets an education on what a turnover rate is: “Daddy, tell me the truth about the trucker shortage.”

February 4, 2016

Business

Framing the trucking labor situation: Shortage at what price?

“Labor shortage” can mean different things to different people, whether a supply/demand imbalance at “current market prices” or “at any price” — the latter often well implied in driver shortage stories that suggest a disruption to the supply chain that consumers will see and feel.

February 3, 2016

Business

A decade just to rebound: Pay and the driver shortage

With the exception of 2014-15, pay evidence of a supply/demand imbalance in OTR truckload drivers’ favor is not found during 2005-15, during which a driver shortage was documented for nearly every year by one analyst or another.

February 3, 2016

Overdrive Extra

One carrier’s work-around for the driver shortage

Landstar’s low turnover rate shows that strong earnings potential for drivers can soften a labor shortage by retaining solid operators.

February 2, 2016

Channel 19

The first time I heard the phrase ‘driver shortage’ …

Tracking back to the origins of our February cover story questioning what might be the trucking industry’s most unquestioned assumption: the driver shortage.

February 1, 2016

Business

The driver shortage alarm

The disconnect between the money and the mantra: As trucking has trumpeted a driver shortage over most of the last 10 years driver pay hasn’t risen in a way that would reflect such a strong labor demand.

February 1, 2016

Voices

POLL: What’s your view of the ‘driver shortage’?

“Driver shortage” — myth or reality, all about trucker pay or a reflection of a younger generation’s generally unfavorable view of long-distance trucking, a by-product of a constraining regs enivronment? What’s your view?

December 15, 2015

Channel 19

‘Takes a village’ on detention

Driver hits the nail on the head at supply chain management conference, speaking in “driver shortage” context: “If we can figure out how to keep that driver moving, the [shortage] numbers aren’t that big of a deal.”…

October 12, 2015