Why America is facing a shortage of truck drivers
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- Опубликовано: 25 окт 2017
- More than 70 percent of the goods we consume are carried by truck drivers on the nation's highways. A new report says the industry needs to hire roughly 90,000 new truckers each year to keep up with demand. As part of our continuing series, Work in Progress, Kris Van Cleave reports on why so many of those jobs are unfilled and how it could drive up costs for Americans.
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Here's why there's a lack of drivers
1. Money sucks for being away from the family for 30 days at a time.
2. Companies have no respect for drivers.
3. We need more than 4 days off ever 30 days.
4. Over taxation and excess regulations.
5. Every DOT officer and state trooper will do anything and everything in their power to take away several weeks of paychecks with multiple frivolous citations.
The list could go on for days...
well in the early 70's Hoffa sr. shut down trucking 13weeks nationwide,because truckers stuck together,you cant do anything split apart! WITHOUT ALL AS ONE AS THE MEN DID NEARLY 5 DECADES AGO,YOU GOT NOTHING! HISTORY NEED'S TO REPEAT ITSELF!
wally so Agreed
James Snead You are exactly right on that. It always seems that DOT is out to get us, when you figure a 5mph over ticket for a four wheeler at around $50.00 or $60.00 bucks vs $190.00 for an 18 wheeler you know something is up.
James Snead I agree 100% with what you said I hope a DOT officer is reading your comment.
Koronswagg 17 I keep my trucks legal and cover myself very well with DOT requirements and also legally. I carry several types of legal help... They can try but it won't happen
Greedy trucking companies making $3.00 plus per mile and then paying the driver 43 cents per mile. Corporate greed
Man, why don't you start up your own trucking company if it's that easy big money!?
Sami Valkonen
I have my own trucking company!
Chris Morgan then wtf are you complaining about corporate. You arent a company driver. 43 cents a mile is company driver pay. If you own your own truck and you get 43 cents per mile. You might wanna switch with a different company.
yes u are right
They get more,much more than 3.00 a mile,rest assured.
There are no lack of drivers. Just a lack of pay.
There is a lack of drivers.........*that works for cheap*. There are hundreds of thousands of drivers who want at least a living wage.
Viet Lee he is correct there is no lack of drivers it’s a lack of pay.
Francisco Contreras What does the army have anything to do with truck driving?
no there isn't, average pay for commercial is not $30,000, it's $60,000
Guys don't accept the lie of shortage of drivers in America, We're easily doble trucks drivers Vs loads.
Underpaid and overworked.
SAD
Insurance rules says if you have not driven in 5 years or so you cant drive a truck again.
But they accept rookie drivers fresh out of school.
@@Johnkoth Whatever it takes to make the benjamins...
increase salary mean price for item increase too
@@Johnkoth foreal? Thats the dumbest thing i ever heard🤔
Been driving since 2005 can't remember the last time Truckers got a real increase in pay...Only an increase in disrespect!
Robert Bradshaw Yelp I worked for FFE back in 2006 for 32 cent per mile most companies still pay the same and it's 2018 L.O.L.
Greed is what is going to collapse the economy. At least it's going to be one of the key problems.
Mandela Effect Residue how did you become a Christian
J Gamble , my dad made the same money back in 1984. Hope that helps you see how far back it's been.
I started driving in 1996, I was doing better back then!!
There isn't a shortage of people willing to drive a truck.
There's a shortage of people willing to drive a truck for the low pay and terrible treatment.
In 1980, truck drivers were making 37k per year, according to OOIDA. When you account for inflation, that's 110k on 2018 dollars.
The average truck driving job in 2018 earn around 55k. A significant decrease in driver pay.
Add on being constantly lied to, forced into long, unpaid sitting hours at warehouses, increased regulations which result in even lower pay, and you've created this driver shortage.
Landrar That's the real truth.
correction..."rich execs success"
...The fish rots from the head down.
jusayen so That's some, but it's a symptom not a cause.
These problems affect almost every company, even those that don't have super rich executives.
Landrar ....I agree. I should since I also worked for a small company with one owner and no staff and no office. He worked out of his home. I drove a gravel truck while waiting to get hired by a semi company. Got an offer only a few weeks into my employment with him. He lied about full time employment as I quickly found out when he couldn't even keep me busy 40 hours a week. Had me purchase about $70 worth of fuel out of my own pocket in the short few weeks I was employed. My truck had some kind of slow oil leak he never fixed. When I got an offer to work for a big semi company, I actually told the company I want to give this guy a weeks notice despite all the red flags. Did he appreciate it? After I trained (yes, a newbie like me was training my replacement) he never paid me for the fuel I paid for. I was quite naive to the industry since this was my very first employer after getting my CDL. Found an article on the internet years later in a crime blog. His wife called the cops from a local restaurant/hotel bar due to a domestic violence incident between them. When I was hired, he even asked if I have a place where I can park one of his few trucks! Naturally, being new and needing any experience I could get, I put up with all these red flags. I didn't make it clear in my first comment but have seen first hand in such a short time all the crap that is so typical in this industry. I owned a tiny business and only had one employee at a time. Never once abused any of them. Even kept one guy on payroll for my 3 month slow season having him do easy customer data entering into my computer and preparing hundreds of mailers etc. I had every reason to lay him off since I never promised him full time. But kept him on payroll and he gladly stayed.
My little budget easily justified laying him off since I could have done his work myself. There's more to his story but I'll stop here. So again, I understand your correction. What an industry!
The American truck driver is leaving this field because of rules and pay....get the DOT out of the picture and pay the damn guys and you would have drivers.
Can't get rid of the DOT because Trucking is a job with many, MANY hazards and very high safety risks. However, they *can* increase the pay and will need to in order to draw more into the field.
@@AaronCMounts They won't get rid of DOT for sure. If I could get a higher pay or no DOT I might actually get interested in the job. I'm able to work at a warehouse and make pretty much the same amount of pay, more flexible schedule, and even no drug test.
We're over-regulated and undercompensated
daniel haupt exactly
Everyone wants a piece of the pie... Companies, brokers and at the end the truck driver gets the crumbs
reagan's de regulation of the trucking industry is literally what caused the lack of compensation
@Hello daniel haupt, How are you doing?
@@uuhhhmicrotone2435 40 years ago i made the decision not to pursue my dream of being an Owner Operator based on Reagan deregulating the industry. Glad i did as much as i wanted to own my own truck. I would have driven myself to an early grave.
The shortage isn't a driver shortage its a pay shortage.
Absolutely there is no driver shortage, it is a shortage of pay. Drivers need not a Union, they need Commercial Driver Association only for drivers so they can hire Lawyers to protect drivers rights. Driver work for free about 20 to 30 hours a week for free, and what Government do about it. NOTHING!
Exactly!
Thomas ohman Yep
Facts
Marek Bielesza how do they work 20-30 hrs for free?
I feel bad for the drivers.Im a manager of a receiving at my store and I unload the semis everyday full of product.Its sad to hear how companies treat the drivers,I always save the drivers good food and drinks when they come to my store.I always tell them it’s on the house and I unload the truck for them while they get to take a nap for 30mins to an hour.
Too bad more receivers don't treat people with respect!
765kvline very true they don’t see the hard work and hours drivers have to drive and work
You are a rare individual IVS... thanx
THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!! GOD Bless You and your family!!!
good man ...if everyone did something small like this a day for another...man i cant even imagine how vastly better this world would be
I've been driving 21 years,the pay hasn't moved much,the laws have become unreasonable.
•Overregulation
•underpaid for the time put in and away from family
•harassment from police, sheriff's, federal agencies, etc.
•discrimination by cities and states against truck drivers for simply parking within their city boundaries and sometimes on deserted state off ramps
•massively lacking parking spaces for the millions of truck drivers
•abusive behaviors by trucking carriers and scheming to deprive their employees of their earned wages for any and every reason
•shippers and receivers who do not value truck drivers work schedule and the unstoppable 14 hour clock and so they sit and wait as our work time is wasted away for free on their facility, and if you try to leave they call the police.
That about covers it.
In a nut shell.. place where I work, as a local driver, they treat otr guys like trash, make them sit around and wait ect ect. When I have to interact with a OTR driver to move a trailer or what not, i treat them with the respect they and their valuable time deserve. Usually they are shocked to see someone be nice and courteous to them and that Pretty damn sad.
They sure do. I never forget i had to deliver to compton ca. 1 truck stop held 30 trucks. No spots so i remember seeing a closed down weigh station. I pull in shut down. 3 hours later. Fuzz come a knockin. Cali sux for parking. Hate going there its the worse.
Couldn’t agree more!!!
The "shortage" exist, because of:
1. Pay is low for the work required. Pay stagnates quickly.
2. Time away from home
3. Lack of benefits
4. Being overworked and stressed.
Kev Zen y
As well as the job requires high responsibility
After taxes , gas,maintenance & citations You have peanuts left to show to your spouse
No wonder they leave
majid Ashif I couldn't agree with you more
The little dog too...
If u had a child and get behind in your child support they take your CDL so how u can get a heads
Peacock For Sale dam
You wouldn't get citations if you were legal and doing the right thing
As a truck driver your life can dramatically change from one day or another. You could get in a terrible accident and go to jail for man slaughter. Is it worth your 50k a year being away from home a month and getting 4 days off? Driving for 11 hours and once you sign off 10 hours later again for another 11 hours? No life no time to be on the phone. Truck drivers deserve a raise. This job can mentally break you.
Trucking Companies need to do MUCH MORE to retain current drivers and entice new drivers like myself. I'm in CDL school right now and doing OTR is totally unappealing to my wife and I. Not worth it at all. Looking to do local Hourly CDL work. Even that pays crap. Companies are far to GREEDY right now. Until there bottom line begins to suffer, they will stop toying around with puny incentives and get REAL by offering REAL PAY, BENEFITS and HOME TIME. The pigs at the top of the food chain aren't feeling the pain...... yet.
And having a E.L.D telling you when to sleep and drive and you can't forget that useless 30min break it's a joke what the government did to the industry.
Louie J how come we could it get this back in 60 and 70es
Louie J sorry boys my bed was the Sterling while one eye open one eye close it's a outlaw thing you new driver no nothing about
@draxx them sklounst I understand where your coming from. Trucking companies pay us enough just to stay alive and KEEP us hungry. Sadistic greed is what is wrong with Corporate America. Trickle down economics is just like Chinese water torture !
$41,000?!
Crap wages for the hours put in.
thats before taxes
How do you know that?
I find it funny how truck drivers are referred to as professional drivers, but are afforded no respect or any other privileges that their experience and dedication should allow.
Ron Si hold it in a bit I think Mud Puddle meant funny strange not funny funny. Just saying mate.
It's not strange though Mud Puddle it's just greedy bosses who keep the money. This is capitalism eating itself. What good is capitalism without control when the workers have no money to buy stuff, then everything dies. Henry ford knew that, he built towns and spread the wealth.
@Silent Majority That's a very good point mate.
Yeah I'm a 22 year old. I drive a truck but my insurance on my personal vehicle is still really high even though I drive more safe and alert than 95% of 4 wheelers on the road. I feel like having an A class cdl and job should get me insurance benefits but no not for me.
We are only called professional drivers so they can blame us for anything that happens.
I love driving a truck. Police harassment, road rage car drivers, heaviest traffic ever on the roads, months away from home, waiting hours or even days to be unloaded, camping weekends in truck stops or rest areas, being dirty and dirty laundry make it a life not worth living. To do this for low pay and a country that looks at you as just someone in their way isn’t worth it. I wouldn’t recommend long haul driving to anyone.
THIS
Same here, plus sleep apnea regulations.
I abandoned my Lease purchase in 2013...got sick and tired of having my success governed by a "better then thou" desk jockey. The Nations Interstate system is WAY BEHIND on volume of traffic handling, and truckstops with adequate mandatory break/ parking space is also SEVERELY LACKING; ESPECIALLY in New England. Personally I BOYCOTTED New England area from VA, and NE to Maine; nowhere to park...ergo New England doesn't like trucks; I didn't serve New England.
Dan Jones months on the road ??? Unload for days at a time ??? Wow who you working for ????
Dan Jones exactly, any other respectable trade would have filed a complaint with the labor board and would have made changes. I understand that trucking is (different ) ya right, what a lie if I ever heard one. The people with the money and power have their thumb on the working man.
I was going to give the truck driving thing a shot.
The company I was going to work for was going to pay for my schooling and everything involved.
They were also nice enough to let me go on a ride along with a veteran trucker to show me how easy the job was....... this is where I decided not to be a trucker.
We went and picked up our product, loaded everything... so far so good. Then we had to drop it off in some city in the mountains. I was sleeping in the cabin and suddenly we stopped. I am told to hurry up and get out of the truck. I do so, when I open the curtains I notice we are just... on the road.. we aren't exactly pulled over.
Once I get out of the truck my heart drops..... the weight shifted going up the mountain and the trailer of the truck is hanging over a cliff. It was so steep I couldn't see down the bottom of the cliff.
That was the last day that being a trucker ever crossed my mind... the fact that nothing anyone did was wrong and yet this trucker and I almost lost our lives... just the random chance that a pallet was a little to wet, cause the boxes to fold... and the pallets to topple to the side while on a curve.
I have a huge respect for truckers because of this.... but my life is more than what they are paid
And the driver will get the blame at most big companies because if the load shifts it's obviously the driver's fault because he was going to fast around a turn.
I used to live with a truck driver and he was my inspiration to be a one but the issues man are like sacrificing yourself for a company that doesn’t respect you as a human being take a huge risk too.they don’t care if there’s a hurricane, apocalypse ..they literally care only about themselves
If I am in such high demand, I should be getting paid more.
Well said!
Future is near , driverless trucks are already a thing ;)
Hoo Flungpoo Business 101 right there.
Truck drivers really should be making at least $90,000 a year hands down. There job is way more important than some other stupid jobs that make that. Our society is messed up.
Truck driving is also the 10th dangerous job to have. The hazard pay doesn't equal what truckers are making. They work 14 hours days and work 70 hours per week and constantly put themselves in danger of death. If you are an owner operator you can make $100,000 per year, but the starting wages are too low at $40,000. It's not enough money when you realize all the expenses that they have.
Michael Huebner I know I just said they should receive at least $90,000 a year... okay.
I agree and you should make more depending on what you are shipping. The guys who drive those 76 oil rigs, definitely have to be compensated as they are carrying such a hazardous material
Sculpin
That's what I'm thinking. The people keeping everything rolling should earn more
Many do. Trucking is a vast industry. Take into consideration the myriad of things you can do as trucker- tanker, flatbed, dump trucking, house hauling, doubles, triples the list goes on. Factor in experience and countless companies that are willing to give reasonable compensation. Virtually, every company even if it's not a "trucking" company has their own fleet of trucks (e.g CVS, Dominos Pizza etc.). Dominos pizza and Papa Johns pay their truckers handsomely. Do the research and you'll see there is money to be made in trucking.
The pay is too low and the hours are long. Receivers and shippers treat drivers like crap.
I’m a millennial who started driving in 2012 still going strong. I love the solitude.
Nice, are you still Truck driving?
That's nice. Hope your company doesn't start putting cameras inside your trucks as some are doing that now. No more solitude if they do.
@@muffs55mercury61 that's bologna... if you have to fear the camera, you're probably not doing your job properly. Have a camera in my truck, it's inaccessible by the company, only activates under certain circumstances, and can be blocked while not driving so there's privacy... best of all, these cameras have saved my career TWICE...
@@davidkingsley8940 no if companies can't trust their drivers they shouldn't have a company.
@@nahnah6765 not true. The camera in most companies cases has nothing to do with trusting their driver, it has to do with trusting other drivers around them. These cameras have saved my career twice already.
the money is dogshit compared to the sacrifice made by the people driving. this should easily be a 6 figure job. it's also one of the most dangerous jobs. if you want people to be loners and not have a life away from work, you have to pay them substantially more than theyre making
jason hochheiser yeah, local driving is more hustle but I think being away from home and family should justify equal or more pay for otr. To anyone reading this reply, jb hunt is crap, 1 of the worst paying company for otr.
jason hochheiser I agree, My family don't even feel comfortable when I'm home cause I'm never there
Hmm i think 6 figures is pushing it for just needing only a highschool diploma i would say starting pay at 50k n then with experience for your pay to increase every 2 to 3 years n if you want 6 figures i would leave that for moving hazardous materials and other highly expensive and sensitive loads
adjusted for inflation, truckers should be making 6 figures based on wages thirty years ago...……...
I agree 100%. I just said the same thing; it ought to be a 80- 100,000 dollars a year minimum! Preferably , 100,000 to start.
Cute how they don't talk about the over regulations put on the trucking industry which has driven people away as well.... But that would be too much facts.
Madog Llewellyn ... Exactly....
Regulations like what, HOS? proper maintenance? weight restrictions?
BINGO!!!
They also mention nothing about the Insurance aspect of it. It's very expensive to hire a new inexperienced driver due to high insurance costs. They instead make it sound like there is a massive shortage of drivers which is a predictable lead in to them saying we need automation or more immigration to solve it. No what they need is to just fix the Insurance racket, and the jobs will fill themselves with Americans already here even despite the crappy pay rates in this depression economy.
Jav253 ....Amen...
Truckers haven't got a pay raise since 1980. Time for them to make $100k or more per year plus benefits. $100k should make it so people want to make the career change. 100k should be the starting wage.
Paul Crews lmao 😂
That is a DIRECT result of DE-REGULATION and UNION BUSTING !! That is what you get when you Vote for the GOP. PERIOD.
A pay raise just so the DOT can steal it.
Lmao my buddy makes 158,000$ a year as a trucker. Unless you are a trucker I'd shut up.
@@garyvestalpodcast4124 not every trucker makes that lol. Specialized or guys who run their own rig sure. Majority of truckers are underpaid.
Truck drivers are getting robbed
Yyyuugggiiooohhhhh
You want sober safe people putting 50 to 70 hours a week,it's gonna cost you.
Or maybe there are some immigrants who will do it for far less..
leagueofotters - or maybe there are some Mexicans that will do your job for half the cost!
@@zemzem8323 He said sober and safe though
Truckers and the majority of delivery drivers are being ripped off daily! That is the problem. There is tons of money in freight and there are a ton of parasites steeling that money from the drivers. Hence you have decline in drivers!
#1 parasite is Fred Smith of Fed Ex. He has done more to decrease the pay of truck and delivery drivers than the Elders of Zion have done to steal the world's available money.
I wont do this job with only 41k a year. No way!
ELD was the final nail in the coffin.
Trucker McGhee your right.
I'm going to trucking school in 2 weeks man and these comments are discouraging ha, I just read about the ELD and wow it sucks man.
@@hazard1371 Are you paying for your own training or is a big carrier paying you?
You're better off getting a CDL on your own money and having the freedom to pick what company you work for. You could even drive construction equipment and make 16 to 20 dollars an hour while being home every night
Or find a small company where you can have a personal relationship with your boss. I drive less and make more than some schmuck just starting out working for, say, CR England. It is possible to still make it in this industry, you just have to avoid the big carriers
Warner was the first company to implicate the elog back in the late 90s
I did 25 years and only ran just ONE LOGBOOK
at any one time..
If I couldn't do " THE JOB " and do it legally, And
still make a living with it, there would be no point
doing " THE JOB " at all ....
Because no one wants to work 120 hours a week for $4 per hour.
you got that right, making less than a walmart worker, i dont think so.
Lol
They get 4 dollar? Really?
Actually my dad is a truck driver and he gets way more than that
Are you actually dumb. Just Walmart drivers make over 100k. Most give 70K...
The pay sucks that's why, would you sit at a truckstop 1000 miles from home waiting for another load for a day or more making nothing?
preach
Go independent.
Because the trucking companies are ripping their own drivers off and the regulations are absurd. There's your story.
I’m not blaming them it’s just that a lot of them are taking jobs that don’t pay as good and the companies are taking advantage of it and expecting older drivers like me with 35 yrs experience and a clean record to work for the same money a lot of foreigners think that 28 to32 cents a mile is great money because that’s what they were making over there but here that’s nothing, I’ve had companies offer me 32cents a mile and I walked out I told them I was making 28 cents a mile as a first year rookie back in the 80 s
In 2010, I went to the orientation for SWIFT thinking I was gonna get 36 cents a mile for the first year because that's what the paperwork I had received from the CDL school said. Instead, because so many people were out of work and becoming truck drivers they lowered their starting pay to 23 cents a mile for your first 30 days solo then 26 cents a mile for the first year with a 1 cent raise each year after that. Going to work for them would have been financial suicide and luckily I got a job driving a box truck making $15 an hour to start. Now I drive a tri-axle dump truck making good money and never had to go over the road. Yay!
0.38 cents per mile is slavery, I hope this doesn’t get worse.
Truckers need more money and more sleep and a lot more respect Merica
marzinjedi Take Away Respect For JACKED UP PICKUP DRIVERS And Give It Back To The REAL Truck Drivers!
Real Trucks Have 18 Wheels, Not Pickup Beds!!!
I'll Take A BISON Over Any SILVERADO Anyday, Or An LTL9000 Over Any F-150/Raptor, Or A BIG HORN 900 Over Any Ram, Any Day Of The Week. GMC GENERAL Too!
none of your business I've never been cut off by a T/T.
A Prius, however...
Smitty Werben Jaeger man Jensen i hear you....everybody think that they have the right away
RM K We do own the road. Interstates were designed for trucks
As someone who owns a small trucking business with my spouse I can tell you it is a tough industry. The equipment expense, maintenance, plates, fuel, fees, taxes, etc adds up rapidly and even if you make a decent amount of money on paper it gets eaten up very quickly. My husband loves driving and we work hard. I hope one day the money will match up with the amount of work and sacrifice you make when you work in trucking.
Sara R only until you are replaced with self driving trucks
T Sal 😂
Sara R you married a truck driver?🤨wtf.
John J III he leaves for days when he gets home he busts her cheeks, while he's gone maybe she's getting her cheeks busted also , she looks like she has nice cheeks
Sara R
It all pretty much comes down to what you guys are hauling. The rates just aren’t there to match the expenses anymore. I haul cars own 1 truck or should I say the truck owns me. Rates are still decent but other companies are also coming in at cutting rates. Money management is the key. Good luck to you and your husband.
Hogan transportation is a amazing job. 72k per year 4 days a week, 40 hrs a week. Home every night. If You live near detroit metro. Look in. Into it.
With $9000 ( one of my drivers got for forgetting to put down a tag axle) tickets and more regulations than a hospital emergency room who would want to own or drive a truck!
70.6% of the nations good are carried on the highway? Try 100%, after all those trains aren’t able to stop at Walmart to drop off freight.
Well, they mean between states. Not short runs.
Good point ! They should say 100 freaking percent ! Every single thing we buy and use are carried by these trucks.
dont matter that must only count for a finished product going to a store but what ablout the parts that were brought from around the country for that company to buld thier product that will eventually be shipped to a walmart or what not.
Your assumption does not beat scientific statistical analysis.
Erbec Pickell No it clearly doesn’t. 70.6% was the number.
Somebody explain to me, where these extra ppl are gonna park or sleep at. We don't have room for the drivers we got now.
pattherealist Walmart paid me $10/hour for 40 hours a week.....
As a janitor. Got benefits, too.
That's everybody's wage after 6 months.
good luck with that. Most Wal Marts now have no RV or Truck Parking signs and enforcing it.
wayne roll thank you thank you thank you amen.
I have about 12 years left to retire.. (if i can afford it).. driving since i was 19. seen alot of changers in regulation and the respect factor.. Made more money in 80s and early 90s then i do know. Todays truckers are not as glorified as much as we once were..we are told we are a dime a dozen. Its a real shame. Alot of good drivers out there and yes some bad.. The boat and the fishing poles look better every day.!! lol. Cant wait to rip up my CDL..
Start saving now .. I retired in 2012 due my health..
I'm getting by on $1280.00 a month.. it's not that hard to do
but you gotta be real conservative and keep close track of
every buck you spend each month.. What I'm getting is
all the reward for 25 years watching that white line whizzing
by at all hours of the day in the most horrid weather conditions
imaginable ....
Driver pay is absolutely pathetic.
@Dee Bro really 500 dollars a week thats bad
really bad i guess
I've been driving 23 years and the rahl company wouldn't hire me said im over qualified. But they take people with no experience and pay them next to nothi g so they get rich.
Open a company hire people, don't work for them
I worked for Roehl. Very nasty company to work for. They would nail you for every little thing you did wrong. Even if you were being unloaded at the time, and you were on time, and you accidentally sent the being loaded message late, they would knock that against you. This was in 2007. I'm sure they haven't changed.
Please explain what this has to do with Trump? These issues have been around for decades.
Paul Johnson dont forget the gutless truck micromanaging and treating you like a baby lol I was with them in 15 and none of that has changed still the same as 2007
yeah i drove for CRST which requires you to team...out for 3 weeks then home for 5 days and i just couldnt make any real money it was a joke...i quit and went with a company that only did short hauls mostly back the next day or same day...those who dont drive big trucks have no idea the stress truckers go through...stupid car drivers...weather...crappy roads all add to the stress...but hey our job is easy we just drive a truck....my wife said that until she went on a run with me....she never said that again...trucking is a rough life and burnout happens quite often and why there is a shortage
There is no shortage of drivers, just a shortage people willing to work 70 hour weeks for minimum wage. The companies can't keep drivers because the pay is so bad. Go ahead ask me how I know this.
No you're 100% correct, I drove for Werner who claimed that they have "competitive pay", well their starting pay for me was 0.32 cpm with no downtime pay or layover pay.
Long hours and little money. I left after 7 months. Every other company was the same story, and all the good companies required AT LEAST 3 yrs experience.
I'm going into the Navy where I can not only drive trucks but do all kinds of other things.
sixstringsid how u know this ?
sixstringsid don't forget about all the free work. Been at it for 34 years. Agree with you 100%
Low pay. Small trucks with a thin mattress. No money. No comfort. No drivers.
If the companies made the driver want to be in the truck maybe the drivers would.
I know how you know,, just as I know your right.. I drove for 14 years.
I drove OTR for five years before it got into my head that I was killing myself for peanuts in pay. They are overworked and underpaid. Why? GREED.
@Kevin How are you doing
Hope we get to know each other with time and patience?
What about the long hours you have to wait to get loaded or unloaded?
What about not being able to find a parking spot,at night, outside the warehouse that wants their stuff early in the morning ?
What about city's that target long haul trucks to issue parking tickets to increase their revenue?
THAT'S WHY I QUIT!
Increase the pay and the treat them better, problem solved.
Yeah the owners need profit too expenses are too high to raise pay and two many hours? Stuff needs to get around and the brokers need drivers..
item price increase if you increase the salary.
@@superknightlol it's worth a 10 percent price increase to pay people decent wages
Even if they increased the pay the truckers would find something to cry about. They're like whiny little children.
@@jasonlyle3818 50k a year for slavery is messed up I can’t blame them
Blame it on DOT!
ButteredTank no on us for let them f us
I left trucking due to the Dot regs ever increasing, in cab cameras and the slow decrease in pay
In cab cams?? Aimed only at the road I guess?
Gary Russell nope driver cams bud
Me with a cdl license it's hard to get a job because EVERYBODY asks for experience!
I went OTR just for a short while, if you are married, it doesn't work too well, I just did it for experience, than went local, the OTR pay is lousy, cannot find a place to park your rig, TOO many Govt. Regulations, getting worse, cameras facing the driver, idiot nasty receivers, and shippers, low pay, the OTR companies LIE about everything, if your dispatcher does not like you, no miles for you, on and on it goes. Local Union LTL is the only way to go, home every night , no weekends, OT after 8 hours, hard work, 4 wheelers cutting off trucks, etc, etc. No wonder there is a shortage of truckers!!!!
True.
Apocyl Doomer Uh, You Forgot About BAD WEATHER AND HIGH WIND WARNING!!!! 😠 THE NUMBER ONE KILLER OF TRUCK DRIVERS!!!
😠 Hmmm, Have You Ever Drove An EMPTY Truck On I-80 Inbetween Rawlins And Laramie Wyoming, Or I-10 Through Palm Springs???? Yep, You Forgot About WIND!!!! The Number One Killer Of Truck Drivers And The Very Reason The Trucking Industry Is The Number One Most Dangerous Profession In United States Of America And Canada! YEP, IT'S WIND!!!!
YTPD Very true yep.
Richard Kaltenbach Yes, bad weather, and the wind, I.e. the Santa Ana winds, trucking is the most dangerous job, but there are so many drivers the percentage is low, something like that, Commercial Fishermen is the #1 most dangerous job, so they say..
Foodservice delivery probably the best trucking job, if you don't mind laboring. Great pay and great home time.
not enough money 💰
Too many rules and regulations that can easily ruin your life
How much is the salary?
Robin Sjöberg salary? lol we get paid by the mile.
Rumble Truckin Alright, how much per mile then?
Robin Sjöberg around .40 cents for a company driver. you can legally drive up to 11 hours a day in a 14 hour window then have to take 10 hours off.
Drivers should be making at least 250k a year hands down the ends don't justify the means BS laws and regulations I hope nobody drive SHUT THE COUNTRY DOWN
14+ hrs a day..poor benifets.
companies fail to fix trucks. everything falls on drivers....tickets points etc... companies lie about everything to hire you !!!
jimforjzs777 14 were did you find that at did you forget outlaw time drivers there is 25 hours in a day 8 days a week
@@BillSmith-ku1tp you ever have to drive for 10 hours to get to the customer than it takes them 5 hours to unload you and they wont allow you to do a reset there so you have to drive to find parking. 14 plus hours happen a lot
this isnt right at all and i guess these are some reasons why they losing workers
I once had this idea that I thought would change the way freight was distributed.
1. We get rid of the otr positions. No one should be away from home for that long.
2. Companies could open up hubs all over the nation. Then drivers would just have to drive to a hub, drop the trailer, pick up another and then head back. They would be home daily.
3. Local driver would then take the stuff, and deliver it to it’s final destination from the last hub.
I truly think this could work.
Also it keeps drivers from getting stuck in some states with low freight.
R Shipley Welcome to the UPS or FedEX model.
Divers can jump seats in refrigerated units at the hubs.
CF, Yellow, Navajo and several other company's did this for years.
R Shipley this pretty much how UPS and Fedex Operate.
That is an excellent idea. That would allow drivers to be home more often.
Simple! The working conditions are bad and the pay is bad. It is a self imposed shortage.
I'm always suspicious when some industry complains of "a worker shortage".
Easy answer, PAY! If I'm in your truck then I should be on the clock period! Millage pay is BS! I was dispatched to delivered one pallet of watermelon to Virginia from Alabama the price of the fuel for this trip was staggering, the pay for a starting company driver was 32 cents a mile, I made 39c and the trip took 37hrs to complete and I drove deadhead all the way back to Alabama. If a company can afford that then they can certainly pay people a proper wage to drive a Semi for them! I could continue but I'm sure other will agree, Pay is the answer!
Michael Ratliff Specially if your sitting in traffic getting no pay
I'm making decent money. Average 3k miles a week at 50 cents per mile plus 66.00 per day for perdiem they take the perdiem out take the wages then add my perdiem back I'm taking home 1,200 to 1,800 a week plus benefits. Get with the correct company or find the right local drop and hook job that's hourly.
Michael Ratliff dam straight
@@916Smoke Stop with the lies!!! You don't average that every single week. It is not possible for a 1-year operation, even if drop and hook on both sides with the truck going across Texas non-stop. You have downtime in there and that cuts your average down. Unless you don't take any days off at all and you slip seat on both ends with no truck maintenance, ever. Always have perfect sunny weather and never a hiccup. I doubt you have any of this.
I'm sick of you truck drivers that lie all the time about your pay to try and look good when you have nothing to prove and no one cares. You make all those around you look bad with these lies and the drivers around you also suffer because of them.
Besides, you just posted on another page at how you make .31 cents per mile and are broke. You can't lie on one page then try and say you are writing the truth on another...
@@916Smoke See, it takes someone from Raider Nation to see this clearly without bitching about it. Just Drive, Baby!
Keep the money, get the DOT off truckers backs!
Do you happen to work for Huff and Puff flatbed ?
Semi's illegally park at walmart but its because there is no such thing as a Semi parking space.
I get pulled over in Texas for roadside inspection once every two weeks sometimes twice in one day...WTF!!!
Check your truck as you're suppose to and get less violations.
Some are unavoidabled.
The ATA represents large carriers, not the driver. Don't be fooled.
doinken1 How About OOIDA??
School bus. $12.00 an hour take home. But , you have spineless bosses and a level of humiliation that's beyond compare. Drew
Nice meeting you
I love trucks my favorite is a peterbilt 379
Get rid of scales, dot , taxes 🤔
John Gallo Get Rid Of WIND, The CHP, LAPD, NHP, AHP, UHP, NMSP, KHP, Navaho Sherriff, Lyon Sherriff, etc. For Starters.
Plus Those DAMN LAPD HELICOPTERS!!!!
John Gallo now u talkn
Get government out of it.
no more money in trucking
Ernesto Dgre8t Self driving rigs are coming anyway.
They need to count all the drivers sitting for days or a week for a load
this is really bad dear they dont even think about that
Many truck drivers like me never get paid for down time....waiting to get loaded or unloaded....
I’m British and it’s the same here in the UK as it is in the US but it’s not all down to money that there is a shortage of truckers, it’s all the rules and regulations that come with the job, having said that I’m not saying there shouldn’t be any rules and regulations, governments and authorities have made it so hard that no one wants to do it anymore, too much crap involved.
frankbing1 WORD!
Ireland is the same..and it is about the money ! You can't change the nature of the beast..so pay me and pay me well for my very valuable time and effort.
No home time, harassed by cops, treated like garbage by dispatchers, treated like garbage by shippers, treated like garbage by everyone, nowhere to park, not being paid detention, rejected trailers, waiting 2 hours to take a shower, waiting 2 hours to get fuel, other drivers blocking you in, and that's just the beginning. Until companies start treating drivers better, they'll never keep the seats filled. I'm about done after 27+ years. I hate it.
ouch
thanks for info
i was looking at trucking
now i will keep looking for another line of work
Trucker's need to go on strike.
Didnt know it was that bad
Solidarity from UK and Europe. We drivers are facing the same exploitation work conditions. Peace.
Where are you from originally?
@@lisaharry4540That is not relevant, Lady.
@@ruiutomy1 merry Christmas
@@lisaharry4540 merry Christmas for you too.
The trucking industry got rid of 90,000 truck drivers just last month.The industry wants to keep everything for themselves and not pay the truck drivers.Thats the real problem.GREED 😠😠😠😠😠😠
Demand may be up but not pay.
steve b so true I drive between Michigan and Laredo Texas and many of the people I meet are not very sharp I myself have over 10 years in the universities with no degree but grounded knowledge
steve b that's fine I'd rather get back to what I was doing for 30 years repairing musical instruments but nobody wants things fixed they just want shiny new Chinese crap
steve b Good thing I’m a mechanic as well as a driver
Stiffer regulations is why I got out of it after 20 yrs.
Sinister
Same. Just got out myself
I want too also..
Me too, drove for 12 years, got out in 2008.
Between CSA, TWIC, HazMat, elogs, cab cams, dispatch and safety virtually riding in the cab with you, 10 hour rests, no wonder people are quitting.
The only people willing to drive trucks nowadays are young people, they don't know how things used to be, so they accept the way things are today.
It's terrible that they want the equipment to be in good repair and the drivers getting enough sleep.
As a x-truck driver, it has lot to do with regulation. DOT always out for blood and companies constantly try to ignore DOT law for profit. Putting your class A on the line.
For all of you who drove trucks..thank you. For all of you still driving..thank you also . For those thinking about driving... think harder.
Dealing with the Police State is another reason I gave it up years ago. Now more than ever, local Governments use Police forces to raise revenue, at the Driver's expense.
Johnny Wayne I see it all the time NHP (Nevada) is always pulling truckers over near Reno
Drivers in Europe are also on the target list for enriching government vaults with heavy fines.
No respect and appreciation given to the drivers, and too much harassment by the police. No wonder people don't want to do it.
Pay truck drivers more, and more people will be truck drivers. It’s not a difficult concept.
The difficult concept is that the profit margin is lowe enough as it is the owners get paid way too little think of mechanics fuel tires and so on the prices for maintenance and so on are way too much for 75 an hour which the owners get paid and than pay the drivers more? not possible the owners need better pay for higher wages for the drivers we need drivers!
It sucks that many local truck drivers get paid more than OTR drivers 😑
Driver pay should be $1.00 per mile. Problem solved.
Pay more and get more.... Is just that simple. I think they deserve it. They risk their life and they have to be away from their loved ones for weeks at time.
You say that now, but when your burger costs $1 more, you will have a fit.
Eric P - Did it ever occure to you the shareholders and the C.E.O's don't need to make millions of dollars. It's just the matter of priorities.
The biggest problem is, if you compare average hourly rates (and consider time and a half for over time), truck drivers make about as much as burger flippers. It's just that burger flippers work 30 hours a week, and truck drivers work 60-70 hours a week. Really sad if you think about it.
Your employers organize so they can make more money and have drivers work under more difficult conditions. What are you going to do to change that? Probably nothing.
The labor laws have made it difficult for employees to organize, unfortunately.
I realize that the laws have changed and that it is more difficult to organize, but I don't see another solution.
You don't even make minimum wage if you figure the hours most of the time.
I quit driving after trucks after 20 yrs cause the pressure from eld watching my hours co slowing the trucks down I couldn’t even run 70 mph on the Ohio turnpike other bs, I got a job at stocking shelves at a membership store working 40 hrs a week and home every nite 5 days a week and make darn near as much money as trucking. Go figure!
Minimum wage means if they could pay you lower they would
God bless the truck drivers
Been trucking for 14 years and I had enough. When the ELD mandate hits, I'm done. I'm taking up computers.
It's quite simple. Truck driving is a "doing skill" and less of an analytical expertise acumen.
I'm not disparaging truck drivers at all!!! In fact, in many ways, what they do is MUCH harder than what engineers or computer coders do. They have real time, real life consequences if they mess up.
But compensation is never based on difficulty, it's based on societal changes. Your skill set has to be where society is headed. Driver-less trucking is most likely the future.
Society and change is brutal. Nobody cares if one is the best at a skill that is being replaced.
It's a sad fact. Well rounded individuals with both brains and brawn and/or good hand eye coordination are being replaced by emaciated beta super genius nerds bordering on the autism spectrum.
Truck drivers should not be ashamed, and they should occasionally punch a nerd that spends all day on their computer. ;)
too many regulations honestly I'm considering letting my cdl go. It's just too much for not enough I could just drive a box truck local and make as much.
Robert Bradshaw oh yeah no doubt! I mean I was an otr driver for 4 years and worked for a really good company marten the big blue Smurf trucks. They are an awsome company! Really good benefits exalent pay! My dispatcher was top notch! But now I work for a local out fit home every night weekends off and still making right at 900$ a week after taxes. With 70% less responsibility.
Ryan Haynes you can net $4000 a week in a box truck? Do tell....
I drive a route truck. Home every day. 80k a year. Full benefits and pension. No way I would ever go OTR.
WELL, DUHHH ... WHO COULD HAVE
POSSIBLY SEEN THIS COMING ????
@Barbusie how are you doing
Another thing that wasnt mentioned in the video is tightening regulations and laws.
The trucking companies will lie to you about everything. Recruiters tell you what you want to hear. Then management will decide if you can go home for earned time off. Freight is what matters. Your safety is your responsibility. High mileage drivers, dictated what a safe driver gets. I worked for Marten, Interstate, Celadon, Swift and local companies. Not one company will care about your family well being. Your health is not important. Your just a number.
Robert Ruiz Very true statement.
If you die they'll replace you before your body is taken out of the truck.
@@r.d.9399 doesnt sound like they can hire anybody to fill current openings, let alone hire to fill new openings
@@andykapsar4667 It's not really a driver shortage. It's a proper pay shortage.
@Russ RV Freedom 37 I agree. Things would improve if companies weren't allowed to train their own students. If training was done by third parties under federal regulations they would be forced to pay proper wages. But the government doesn't care about companies abusing new drivers. That's why I believe we should let the freight rot and sit on the docks.
Because companies don’t want to pay truckers what’s fair, plus long periods of time away from home!
Owner operators should be paid no less than $3.5/ mile, and company drivers at least 0.75/mile.
Geraldo Moraes I personally have vowed to never turn another key until I'm paid 86cpm there national average speech has been heard in the same words of every trucking company I've talked to for the past 7 years 41 to 43 cpm these loads per truck pay enough to pay drivers experienced with clean records 86 cpm even easily pay .75 cpm but that cuts into there funding for there personal lives which is more important to them obviously
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Of course their personal lives are more important to them. So is everybody's personal life is more important to the individual living that life.
I admit trucking is a hard life. But I like seeing the country and keeping the economy rolling at the same time.
The damn Elog put a dent in my pocket
@Hello Abel Hernandez, How are you doing?
20 yrs in the business, very simple, raise the pay, driver shortage dissappears.
Truck drivers need more respect!
Laurenzio GM I agree they/we need more respect on the road and from the companies we make rich with our labor, but I had many incidents with fellow truck drivers being the disrepectful ones to a fellow truck driver.
I don't care about respect,i want more pay,respect is only girls!
You give a demand, but no method to accomplish what you want... better results effected if given a method ....
That's right!
respect is earned, never given
Interviewing a swift driver for correct real info... wtf yall
Long hours low pay high risk and every state trooper waiting for you make a mistake to write you up for everything and anything you have no personal life at all
Iv been a cdl driver for 22 years. To many rules & heavy penalties for the smallest thing. I hate the trucking industry.
mr. m
Come to south texas. D.o.t. will stand by the scale light button with binoculars waiting for a truck they like then hit the lights to pull em in. From there, it's violation frenzy!
Same here.
16 years ago I got into trucking because I thought I could bring my family into middle class wealth.. wrong I'm struggling every day. Need more pay and benefits.. and home time.
Matthew bourque what about a single guy with no kids or wife?
Brandon Boyden IF you want to LIVE in your truck, eat sandwiches and ramen every day, SAVE EVERY PENNY YOU CAN, and I mean every penny. Don't pay rent anywhere, I mean literally live in your truck you can make a little. If you can do it after a couple years you might have a decent bank account. Average pay is around 40,000 for a NEW DRIVER. Don't believe everything you see or are printed on those little cards at your local pilot by the bathrooms. The cents per mile suck, and you're going to have to get 500 miles a day, every day! If you drive hard it's not that hard. You can get 600 in a day if your lucky. There's A LOT that goes into trucking. I could go on and on. It's not black and white, there's a lot of grey area. I've only had my class A for 3 years and drove hard for 2 company's at a year a piece. It's NOT worth it.
are you still poor?
Matthew bourque IAM so glad I never spent $$$ on CDL training
There are too many trucks now! The freight prices are low, freight for flatbed is too low, parking is a terrible problem!
@Karl how are you doing
Bladder infections is another draw back. (Sitting so long)
aww hmm you guys are really going through alot
You need Linda the Lot Lizard .... 😉