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DRIVERS WANTED * USA: Desperately
* Tennessee - Trucking shortage nearing 40,000 nationwide
By the numbers
* 3.4 million — Number of truck drivers in the U.S.* 1.3 million — Number of carriers in the U.S.
* $ 41,930 — Average driver salary nationwide
* 35,000 to 45,000 — Drivers currently needed.
* 239,000 — Projected drivers needed by 2022.
* 96 percent — Average turnover rate in long-haul trucking fleets.
* 9.96 billion — Freight tonnage moved by truck last year.
* 70 percent — Average amount of American freight moved by truck.
* 37 billion — Gallons of diesel fuel consumed each year by freight trucks.
Source: American Trucking Associations, U.S Dept. of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics
-- The country right now is smack in the middle of a major driver shortage nearing 40,000 empty seats, according to the American Trucking Associations... And that has to change, say carrier executives and industry experts — even if it means dangling $50,000, $60,000 a year in front of recruits... All that Rob Hatchett vice president of recruiting at Covenant Transport thinks is about drivers. How to get drivers, how to keep them and how to make Covenant more appealing than the other 500,000-plus trucking firms in the country, as counted by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration... Hatchett thinks about how to overcome growing driver frustrations with federal hours of service, maximum truck speed and electronic trip log regulations... He wonders how much money nontruckers have to have to make the jump... Covenant has over 2,700 trucks and 6,700 trailers and ran an average 912 driving teams during first quarter of this year... And still, the company could find work for newcomers immediately. Covenant has upped its driver pay more than once... Brand-new drivers out of training start out making up to $46,000 a year. Experienced drivers start at around $55,000. Teams make $120,000 or more... It's better pay than many recent college graduates find in today's workforce...(Photo by Doug Strickland/Times Free Press: Re West Transportation's Jerry Sabatino, right, talks with trucker Patrick Withrow, 32, at a recent trucking jobs fair at Chattanooga State) -- Chattanooga, TENN, USA - Times Free Press, by Alex Green - May 24th, 2015
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