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TRUCKERS' SHORTAGE * USA: Offering $83,000 a year
* Minnesota - Trucking firms, short of drivers, are stretching to find more
Minneapolis,MINN,USA -The Star Tribune -7 Oct 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... Wal-Mart 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 and Minnesota's average of $46,000... Hoag who owns Copeland Trucking, in Fridley said he recently heard about a firm in West Texas that was having trouble attracting drivers despite offering $83,000 a year... Wal-Mart has 7,200 truck drivers but needs more, spokesman Brian Nick said... Hoag estimates he turns down about 10 hauling requests from potential customers every day. He's looking to add eight drivers to the 56 who currently work for the firm... Kottke's firm, which trucks frozen food across the country for General Mills, Hormel, Jennie-O and Michael Foods, has 90 trucks and only 86 drivers... The reasons for the shortage are plentiful. The job has limited appeal to start with, because it takes drivers away from their families for extended times... Drivers must regularly pull their rigs into checkpoints where officers check their time on the road... Violators are now reported on national databases...
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