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DRIVERS' LACK - USA
* Waterloo Area trucking companies addressing driver shortageWaterloo,IA,USA -Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier, by RC BALABAN -Mar 19, 2006: -- Gene Zimmerman thinks it might be a lack of dedication... Clayton Fisk says it is a case of demand outstripping supply... The American Trucking Association says part of it is a rapidly aging work force... Whatever the reason or combination of reasons, it doesn't change that the trucking industry is facing a shortage of drivers, and the problem is expected to get worse...* Connecticut, other states face shortage of long-haul truckers
NEW HAVEN, Conn.,USA -AP/Newsday (Long Island,NY) -Mar 19, 2006: -- The long-haul trucking industry is attracting fewer drivers in Connecticut and nationwide, where companies are turning to recruitment events and other tactics to find new employees... Companies nationwide and in Connecticut are holding more recruitment fairs and other events in hopes of attracting new big-rig drivers... The national trucking group is trying to draw more people ages 23 to 35, along with Hispanics, women, military veterans and baby boomers retiring from other industries...
* Trucking group supports bill to put vets into jobs
USA -eTrucker, by Steven Mackay -19 Mar 2006: -- The American Trucking Associations has thrown its support behind a bill designed to ease the transition of military veterans as they move into civilian jobs... The Veterans Employment Training Act of 2006 would add trucking to the list of industry sectors for which servicemen and women moving to the civilian job market could receive expedited financial aid... Under the current Montgomery GI Bill, the federal government covers up to 60 percent of the cost of some educational benefits to make short-term, high-cost training programs more attractive to veterans...
BCTA promotes careers on the road; creates new trucking careers website
* Canada - BCTA promotes careers on the road; creates new trucking careers website
Vancouver, B.C.,Canada -Canadian Transportation & Logistics (Toronto,Ontario), by Julia Kuzeljevich -17 Mar 2006: -- According to Paul Landry, president and CEO of the British Columbia Trucking Association, empty store shelves, idle machinery and diminished trade with the US are all possibilities if the trucking industry is unable to attract more than 4500 British Columbians per year into the industry for the next five years... The impact of failing to attract more truck drivers and other key trucking industry personnel, including dispatchers, information technology managers, sales professionals, mechanics, and safety and compliance staff, will be felt more keenly by British Columbians, said Landry in a statement...
* USA, Maryland -Help wanted: Truckers, dock workers in short supply
USA/MSNBC/Baltimore Business Journal, by Stephanie Wentworth -Mar 19, 2006: -- Just ask Paul Kelly, chairman of the Maryland Motor Truck Association's Intermodal Council. "We're all looking for drivers," said... Stevedoring companies -- those who manage the loading and unloading of cargo at the port -- are also experiencing worker shortages... People see these jobs as "old economy or dirty," Richard Clinch, director of economic research at the University of Baltimore, said, and add, the older industries have to upgrade their images to compete with higher-paying technical jobs available in the Baltimore-Washington corridor...
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