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Economy
ANALYSIS: Where Are All The Truckers?
2021-10-15
[DailyCaller]
BLUF: Even before COVID-19 the trucking industry was 60,000 drivers short as the Baby Boom generation of men started retiring. Now the shortage is around 100,000, and despite significantly increased pay and benefits, not enough are joining up.
Posted by:Glogum the Low-priced4647

#2  Some time ago, I read an artical that said the ports in California had new emission requirements for trucks and that about 1/3 of the trucks servicing the ports would not comply, so could not work the ports. So now, we are having a trucking shortage? Who could have foreseen? Your "climate change" warriors score another one.
Posted by: Jise Elmeang4932   2021-10-15 20:14  

#1  Shutting down trucking schools as 'non-essential' during the Covid hysteria? Having an education establishment designed to feed universities and colleges and not vocational jobs? Increase micro-management by regulations? Drive independent owner-operators off your state highways? Make fuel more expensive cutting profit margins?

If you are a small company under a 100 personnel, go learn the Army lingo for the truck drivers, MOS et al. You can probably pick up some non-vaxxers real easily by offering pay and relocation incentives.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2021-10-15 19:45  

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