* Texas - Oil rush lures El Paso workers.
(Photo provided by Direct Recruitment Services: Oil jobs. Trucking companies struggle to find, retain workers)
El Paso,TXS,USA -El Paso Inc., by Robert Gray -Oct 27, 2014 : -- Direct Recruitment Services, a local company that recruits workers for oil and gas companies, holds a job fair in El Paso every two weeks, seeking workers for the oil fields... And, every two weeks, as many as 40 people – mostly truck drivers and diesel mechanics – are hired and leave El Paso for the oil boomtowns of Midland and Odessa in Texas, as well as Hobbs, New Mexico, according to DRS president Mauro Medina... Truck drivers are in big demand in Midland and Odessa. Some work as many as 120 hours a week, earning large paychecks but living away from their families for extended periods... The pay is good, but the work is hard. A truck driver who might make $60,000 in El Paso can earn $120,000 in the oil fields, along with generous benefits... But he or she can expect to work as much as 120 hours a week, according to Medina. Drivers often have to live in tents in the “man camps,” or overcrowded hotels and work away from their families...
* New York - Trucking firms, short of drivers, stretch to find more
Buffalo,NY,USA -The Buffalo News, by Dee Depass -October 27, 2014: -- Across the country, trucking companies, and manufacturers and retailers with their own fleets, are resorting to an array of incentives, including higher wages, to attract drivers... Walmart Stores Inc., the nation’s biggest retailer and operator of one of its biggest truck fleets, is using radio ads to appeal to qualified truck drivers with an offer of a $76,000 salary plus benefits to join the company. That’s far above the national average trucker pay of around $50,000...
* Minnesota - Women in the trucking industry
St. Cloud,MN,USA -Layover, by KENT MCDILL -27 Oct 2014: -- In 2009, Lisa Kelly became the first female trucker to appear on the History Channel show "Ice Road Truckers". The former school bus driver and champion motocross racer decided to become a trucker because it "looked interesting" ... Today, many other women are hitting the roads behind the wheel of an 18-wheeler, and trucking companies are looking for more women to take available driving jobs... Women in Trucking, a group that promotes trucking as an acceptable occupation for women, believes the percentage of women truckers in America is slightly above the Labor Department statistics of 5 percent. President Ellen Voie says women still face the battles of sexism in the industry, even as the industry fails to fill jobs due to a changing attitude of the American workforce toward difficult travel jobs... Voie said the trucking industry does not lend itself to women who are also young parents... In an employment environment where women continue to make inroads in equality opportunity, the trucking industry is ready to take steps forward to increase its employment of female drivers...Labels: Shortage of truckers
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