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Folsom,CA,USA -CCN Magazine, by Kamil Z. Skawinski -1 June 2006: -- According to the American Trucking Associations (ATA), the long-haul heavy-duty truck transportation industry in the United States currently has a nationwide shortage of over 20,000 drivers. In a study focusing on the present and future of the long-haul truck driver pool compiled last year (U.S. Truck Driver Shortage: Analysis and Forecasts), the ATA, moreover, found that this shortfall will increase to 111,000 unfilled positions by 2014 if present trends continue... As things stand now, the anticipated supply of new long-haul heavy truck drivers will likely grow at an annual rate of just 1.6% in the next decade. But Global Insight, the economic consulting firm conducting the study for ATA, predicts that, over the next 10 years, economic growth will generate a need for a 2.2% average annual increase in long-haul heavy truck drivers, or 320,000 jobs overall. Another 219,000 new drivers will also have to be found to replace drivers 55 and older who will retire in the next decade, thus putting total expansion and replacement hiring needs at 539,000, or an average of 54,000 new drivers per year over the next decade...
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