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DRIVERS' SHORTAGE * USA - Opinion: Driver Pay — The New Metric
There are recruiters everywhere saying... “Good applicants are getting scarce”
Washington,DC,USA -Transport Topics, by Gordon Klemp (The National Transportation Institute) -21 June 2010: -- The past 10 months have seen a precipitous decline in the quality of driver applicants... Shrinking demand drove many fleets into bankruptcy, and the “right-sizing” of surviving fleets became the rule rather than the exception... Bankruptcies dumped both marginal-quality and high-quality drivers into the same hiring pool... Over the years since 2006, high-quality drivers who were dumped into the ranks of the unemployed have provided a ready supply of good applicants. But now this pool of good-quality applicants has run dry... Also significant to the current driver supply situation are a recession-driven decrease in driver pay and the dropping rate of driver turnover, which at a little more than 40% is at an all-time low. That’s because drivers have been looking first for security and are reluctant to jump ship to a carrier they don’t know... In a post-CSA implementation environment, it is very likely that a driver’s CSA score will become the major metric in determining a driver’s market value... Labels: drivers' shortage
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