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Driver Shortage * USA - Trucking Companies Fear About
ATA says: Spot shortages appearing as freight volume increases
Coronado,CAL,USA -The Journal of Commerce Online, by Bill Mongelluzzo -Mar 9, 2010: -- A spike in cargo volume could produce a driver shortage and would expose bottlenecks on key freight corridors, the chairman of the American Trucking Associations warns... Hundreds of drivers left the industry during the lengthy trucking recession that started in mid-2007, Tommy Hodges said Monday in an address to the annual convention of the International Warehouse Logistics Association in Coronado, Calif... He indicated that spot shortages are beginning to appear, citing the case of a North Carolina fleet operator who can't find enough drivers... Motor carrier executives today, however, are more worried about the 4,493 trucking company failures and 174,000 trucks that were taken off the road during the recession. The industry is still facing an over-capacity problem and an economic environment in which it has little pricing leverage... Nevertheless, volume is starting to pick up, and despite attempts in Washington to encourage a shift of freight from highways to intermodal rail, freight volume is projected to increase at least 30 percent in the coming decade. It is possible that a driver shortage could become the industry's biggest problem, Hodges said... He added, planners have identified 57 critical bottlenecks across the country which, if not corrected, will affect goods movement...Labels: driver shortage
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