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DRIVERS SHORTAGE SOLUTIONS * USA
* Carriers Give Incentives to Drive
* Solutions to driver shortage elusive
-DC Velocity, by Art van Bodegraven and Kenneth B. Ackerman -February 13, 2012: -- Higher pay and expanded training won't be enough. What we need is a comprehensive strategy and the committed engagement of industry and governmental players ... and maybe another look at immigration... But we don't know where to get them. And the factors that were limiting our ability to maintain a stable driver supply, let alone grow it, are still with us, in spades. They include the following:
* Pay is essentially piecework, so many cents per mile
* Traffic delays and wait time at pickup and delivery points consume a greater number of a driver's hours, reducing his (or her) mileage potential
* Federal HOS (hours of service) regulations, while well-intentioned, have the effect of reducing miles by capping daily work hours
* Quality of life: time away from family, diet and recreation on the road, long hours
* Wages that do not fully compensate for time and effort, leading drivers to change employers for trivial per-mile amounts—or leave the field altogether
* The investment (indebtedness) and payback involved in the owner-operator model
* A negative perception of the field, its current population, and the lifestyle—in short, the lack of an aspirational image that involves honest work by decent people for fair wages
* Late entry as the only option for getting in. The high school graduate has already been working some three years in another field before being eligible for consideration as an interstate driver. In addition, there are training requirements to consider in making a career shift.
* The CSA 2010 (Compliance, Safety, Accountability) program, the federal government's far-reaching initiative to remove unsafe commercial drivers from the nation's roads. This has not yet had a major negative effect on the driver supply, but it has reportedly caused some unease in the driver community.
* The added scrutiny of on-board monitoring systems. Some companies report that drivers like the systems, but it is another "eye in the sky" that can un-nerve independent spirits.
Labels: drivers shortage
posted by Unknown @ 11:15 PM
1 Comments:
This is mostly a market issue, but some trucking executives say that a 2010 law extending unemployment benefits to 99 weeks has acted as a disincentive for people to consider trucking jobs because their take-home pay after expenses isn’t much more than they’d collect from the government.
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