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TRUCKERS´SHORTAGE * USA & Canada: More women in trucking
* New Jersey / USA - Lack of truck drivers jackknifes Swift profits
Port Rlizabeth,NJ,USA -The New York Post, by Michael Gray -July 27, 2014: -- Swift Transportation, the largest trucker in North America, saw its shares crater 16 percent on Friday after it said it could not find enough truck drivers and that it would hurt future earnings... The firm, which has a large facility near the Port of Elizabeth in New Jersey, said it was “constrained” by a challenging driver market, which led to higher turnover than was anticipated... “There has been a driver shortage that has been getting incrementally worse as the economy improves and they have to fight for employees with the housing sector,” Lee Klaskow, an analyst, told Bloomberg... The American Trucking Association has issued repeated warnings that the North American trucking market has lost more than 30,000 drivers in the past few years and anticipates that shortfall could skyrocket to 200,000 in the next decade, according to a statement on its web site...
* Nova Scotia / Canada - Female drivers sought by trucking companies
Halifax,NS,CAN -CBC News -Jul 25, 2014: -- The Trucking Human Resource Sector Council Atlantic says they're going to need 30,000 more workers over the next six years. The average entry wage for a long-haul driver is $50,000... A new campaign wants to draw more women to a career in trucking. It’s hoping to change current numbers, where 97 per cent of professional truck drivers are men... Kelly Henderson, the executive director of the Trucking Human Resource Sector Council Atlantic, hopes women will step up... The federal government is committing more than $242,000 over three years to get more women in the trucking industry in Atlantic Canada... The council plans to roll out a campaign to attract women drivers this fall...
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