* New York - Labor shortage in shipping industry reflects a skills and goals gap
NY,USA -The WSJ, by BRENDA CRONIN -July 7, 2014: -- Something strange is afoot in long-distance trucking that is also bedeviling other industries: Many jobs that pay well—and don't require expensive degrees—are going unfilled for months...
U.S. Xpress Inc., a Tennessee-based carrier, has enough freight to hire an additional 100 truckers a week and is deploying recruiters daily to driving schools throughout the eastern half of the country... Copeland Trucking, a family-owned company with about 50 trucks, is turning away business because of unfilled openings. The Minnesota-based firm's $9 million a year in revenue "could go to $13 million or $14 million overnight if I could put drivers in those trucks," said Charlie Hoag, manager of Copeland's terminal in Des Moines, Iowa... Operators across the country are short 30,000 long-distance drivers, the American Trucking Associations estimates. The group projects the shortage could top 200,000 in the next decade... Average annual pay for long-distance drivers was $49,540 in 2013, according to ATA estimates. Hiring and wages in truck transportation have inched up this year, according to the Labor Department... To keep drivers from being poached, operators are fattening health benefits, investing in new trucks and offering more flexible schedules that minimize time away from home...
* Kansas - YRC, trucking industry deal with driver shortage
(Photo: YRCF equipment. YRC Worldwide Inc. needs to hire hundreds of drivers by year's end just to keep up with demand)
Overland Park,KS,USA -The Kansas City Business Journal, by Austin Alonzo -Jul 7, 2014: -- YRC Worldwide Inc., like many others in the trucking industry, faces a serious labor shortage... Kelly Walls, senior vice president of human resources for YRC, said the Overland Park-based less-than-truckload carrier has hired about 600 drivers and 1,000 dock workers so far this year. However, she said the company needs to hire at least 800 more drivers and 1,000 more dock workers before the end of the year... Walls said the driver shortage is an industrywide problem driven by a number of factors: changing demographics, an improving economy and tighter competition for fewer workers... About 35 to 40 of YRC's drivers retire each month — or about 420 to 480 each year — and the company is having trouble finding younger replacements...Labels: truckers shortage
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