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DRIVERS' SHORTAGE * USA - Recruiting practices are coming at the expense of another industry
Strategies to Steer Drivers Back on the Yellow School Bus
New York,NY,USA -Inside Recruiting, by Todd Raphael -31 Aug 2007: -- You've heard about the stepped-up recruiting practices trucking companies use to address the shortage of truck drivers. Well, some of their gains are coming at the expense of another industry -- the large school bus industry, involving perhaps a half-million busses and 625,000 bus professionals... Rhonda Harris, who coordinates transportation for the Sheridan School District in Arkansas, is afraid that more and more drivers are going to take the driving skills they pick up and take jobs as truck drivers, something that's now easier to do under new government rules. To combat this, her team now has driver-candidates pay for their training themselves and get reimbursed by the district if they actually take a school-bus job, rather than the school footing the money up front, which can lead to the school district acting as a training company for the trucking industry... Below, transportation officials and transportation staffing companies discuss the challenge and some solutions...
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