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May 24, 2011

TRUCKERS' TURNOVER * USA - Trucking companies hard-pressed to keep drivers on their payrolls

Long runs, dwindling pay send many looking for greener pastures


Elkton,MD,USA -The Delaware on Line, by AARON NATHANS -23 May 2011: -- This high-stress career path has plenty of forward motion but little upward mobility. And traditionally, that's meant high turnover for truck drivers... But lately, amid high gas prices, new government rules and an economy struggling to get out of neutral, truckers have been changing jobs with even greater speed... In the fourth quarter of 2010, annualized turnover at large-fleet, long-haul trucking companies was 69 percent, according to the American Trucking Association. That's the highest it's been since the second quarter of 2008 -- another period of high fuel prices... While other sectors have struggled, trucking companies are still hiring, said Bob Costello, the group's chief economist... (Photo from The News Journal, by ROBERT CRAIG - Carl Richardson of Hockessin won a top trucker award that earned him not only a trophy for his den, but almost a week in Orlando, Fla., for the competition finals. He's been driving for 27 years and now does mostly short-distance runs)

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Nov 1, 2008

STUDY & TRUCKER's COMMENT: * USA - FMCSA: high driver turnover and crashes linked

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration concluded from a recent study that driver turnover has an impact on crash involvement for commercial truck drivers...

Washington,DC,USA -Trucking Blog Network, by Wayne Weisser -29 Oct 2008: -- I’ve changed jobs more than a few times.The wrecks I’ve had, (small fender bender or backing into something) have been when I was new to driving, not new to a company. Trucking is trucking. Driving for a different company means different customers and unfamiliar areas, but most OTR drivers go to new places all the time... "One reason for the study is FMCSA’s goal to reduce the large truck fatality rate by 41 percent from 1996 to 2008, or in other words, a rate of 1.65 fatalities per 100 million miles of truck travel..." Truck fatality rates have been on a downward trend for the last several years. They make it sound like turnover is the sole cause of truck wrecks... “The purpose of this study, therefore, was to gain a better understanding of the extent to which truck crashes during long-haul, over-the-road operations can be linked to churning among commercial drivers, and to identify strategies with the greatest potential to improve driver retention and safety... FMCSA found that a Commercial Motor Vehicle (CMV) driver with two or more different jobs in two years had a higher risk of being crash-involved than a CMV driver with less than two different jobs or a more stable employment history. The risk is gradual at first, then accelerates as the job change rate increases..." If you have more than two different jobs or more in two years, there may be something else going on besides just job hopping for greener pastures... "FMCSA identified six areas where specific changes hold the potential to improve driver retention and safety: selection and hiring; training procedures; dispatch operations; working conditions for long-haul operators; safety-related rewards and incentives; and improving perceptions of the truck driving profession...·" Thank goodness for the FMCSA! Thanks for stating the obvious. Wonder how much that study cost us...

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Jun 20, 2007

Drivers' Turnover * USA - ATA says that one, on rise

Driver turnover among large truckload carriers increased in the first three months of this year

VA,USA -Land Line Magazine (Grain Valley,MO) -June 19, 2007: -- The American Trucking Association, reports the turnover rate increased 6 percentage points to an actual turnover rate of 127 percent – the highest rate in more than a year... For less-than-truckload carriers, the rate rose 10 points to an actual turnover rate of 14 percent, ATA reported...

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