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DRIVERS SHORTAGE * USA - CMU to tackle trucking trouble - Drivers over 55, purposes
Pittsburgh,PA,USA -The Pittsburgh Business Times, by Dan Reynolds -15 Dec 2006: -- With the trucking industry beset by a labor shortage, members of the industry are asking students at Carnegie Mellon University to come up with solutions... Backed by the sponsorship of the Fort Wayne, Ind.-based International Truck and Engine Corp.'s Truck Development and Technology Center, mechanical engineering students at CMU are getting set to unveil a set of improvements designed to make truck driving easier, more comfortable and more attractive... This fall, the ATA plans a marketing campaign to attract older drivers to the industry. CMU, quoting statistics from the federal Bureau of Labor Relations, said that the number of service and truck drivers over the age of 55 has surged by 19 percent since 2000... The CMU students are also working on features designed to appeal to drivers over the age of 50. Although one might question whether drafting older drivers to work with big rigs is a sound safety measure, Dan Murray, vice president of research with the American Transportation Research Institute, an ATA member, said the experience of older drivers tends to make up for their duller hand-eye coordination and slower reflex times.... "That's why the insurance industry favors older drivers," Murray said...
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