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TRUCKERS' SHORTAGE * USA: Texas' cotton troubles
* Texas - China's stockpiled bales, truck-driver shortage not helping cotton industry
Lubbock,TXS,USA -Lubbock Avalanche Journal, by Josie Musico -September 13, 2014: -- A good cotton year means extra work getting that crop to its destinations, industry representatives said Friday... The Texas Cotton Association’s annual flow meeting — the flow refers to movement from fields to mills — listed examples of those challenges... The cotton transportation process could be smoother if more folks were available to transport it... “We have a lot of fallout of drivers,” said Mike McBain, owner of R and T Truck and Laredo Transfer... Truckers are leaving the field for reasons such as Compliance, Safety, Accountability, a federal program that measures driving violations and has been criticized for listing accidents on drivers’ records without specifying fault, McBain said... “Those things are causing older drivers to leave the industry at an increased rate, and trucking companies have been slow to replace them,” McBain said... Increasing salaries could help in recruiting new drivers, he said, but those higher operating costs could bring their own set of problems...
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