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DRIVERS' SHORTAGE * USA - Attracting Drivers in Troubled Economy - 5,000 new drivers needed in Texas alone
Trucking Industry Looks for People to Hit the Road...
Dallas-Fort Worth,TX,USA -NBC Dallas-Fort Worth, by Kevin Cokely -Dec 8, 2008: -- At 41, Gerald Sparks is starting a new career. He was laid off for five months. He said tried to look for work, but everyone was downsizing or wasn't hiring... Now Sparks, a husband and father of three from Missouri, is learning to become a truck driver at FFE Transportation Services in Lancaster... When fuel prices peaked over the summer, thousands of experienced truckers across the country parked their big rigs and walked away... Now that prices have nearly been cut in half, the trucking industry is trying to lure them back, along with thousands of new drivers... The trucking industry estimates an additional 110,000 drivers will be needed by the year 2014 -- 5,000 of them in Texas alone... According to the Texas Motor Transportation Association, the trucking industry already provides 673,349 jobs in Texas, or one out of every 14 in the state. The average annual salary for trucking professionals is more than $47,000, according to TMTA... (Photo by Joe Raedle/Newsmakers/Getty Images - Tractor-trailer rigs are parked at the Petro truck stop May 29, 2000in El Paso, TX. Many of the rigs now have modern wireless communications as well as cable television, refrigerators, double bunk beds, and microwave ovens. In the last few years trucks have become more like a home/office on the road) Labels: drivers' shortage
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