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Long-Haul Trucking * USA - Shortage is a problem
Driving drivers away - Stagnant pay, lonely lifestyle prompt many to leave for construction jobsKansas,TX,USA -The Kansas City Star, by RANDOLPH HEASTER -Feb. 20, 2007: -- Current estimates are that the U.S. is shy 20,000 long-haul drivers. A recent industry study said the shortage could rise to 111,000 drivers by 2014... Despite demand, wages have stagnated, and turnover in the industry is running more than 100 percent. Potential drivers have migrated to construction jobs, where the pay has been better and they don’t have to be constantly away from home... At some point the shortage will mean delivery delays and higher prices for consumers... Bill Graves, a former Kansas governor and now chief executive of the American Trucking Association, said: “Fleet operators listed the driver shortage as their number one concern.”... Once a headache mostly for large national truckload companies, the problem now hampers the small trucking companies that make up most of the industry’s employers... Driver turnover rates exceeded 100 percent for both large and small truckload carriers in the third quarter of 2006, according to an industry survey. Small-truckload firms, whose annual revenues are less than $30 million, reported 100 percent turnover rates for the past four quarters... (Photo: by FRED BLOCHER/ The Kansas City Star - Training is required before drivers can take to the road. Jennifer Rogers of Overland Park practices parking a tractor-trailer at a Kansas driving school)
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