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Jobs - USA - Growing shortage of long-haul truck drivers
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New York, NY,USA -The Business Review, by Eric Durr -Dec 30, 2005: -- Peter Bennison, vice president of Waste Management & Recycling Products Inc., has been having a problem... Eighty-five percent of American products move by truck, according to industry figures. When trucks don't move, production bottlenecks and costs increase... The number of long-haul truckers needed in the United States will hit 1.62 million by 2014, the same time 219,000 drivers hit retirement age. The industry says it will need 539,000 new truck drivers over the next nine years... Brute strength is no longer required, so trucking is open to women, although the dominant demographic is still white male... The industry is aggressively going after ex-soldiers and Marines, Harry Kowalchyk, president of the National Tractor Trailer School, said. Somebody who muscled a supply truck along Iraqi highways is a perfect candidate, he said...
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