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Apr 29, 2015

DRIVERS' SHORTAGE * USA & Canada: Recruiting women truckers

* Ontario - Summit for returning to Toronto

-- Trucking HR Canada’s Women with Drive Leadership Summit will be back in Toronto for a return engagement on March 3, 2016... About 135 delegates attended this year’s inaugural event, which shed new light on the steps to recruit, retain and mentor women in Canada’s trucking industry, according to organisers... The Conference Board of Canada, a non-profit research organization, projects the need for another 25,000 to 33,000 for-hire truck drivers as early as 2020. While women represent 48% of Canada’s available labour pool, they currently account for just 3% of the nation’s truck drivers, mechanics, technicians and cargo workers... 
Toronto, ONT, CAN - Today's Trucking - Apr 27, 2015

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Sep 9, 2014

TRUCKERS' SHORTAGE WORLDWIDE

* North Caroline / USA - Trucking needs millennials

(Photo: A young truck driver) Raleigh,N.C.,USA-Go By Truck News -September 5, 2014: -- The trucking industry can address the driver shortage by focusing its recruitment efforts on Millennials, says Duane Long. Long, who is the incoming chair of the American Trucking Associations and CEO of Longistics, Raleigh, N.C., believes that together, he and the ATA can attract younger drivers to the profession... “It’s one of my greatest challenges and one of the things I intend to work the hardest at,” says Long. “I, myself, was recruited as a young person. I intend to make that part of my platform” ... The ATA estimates that the industry is currently short about 30,000 drivers. By 2016, that number could be more than 100,000... “We have to attract younger people into our industry,” Long says. “We are studying how the millennial generation gets its information. We are studying how social media works and trying to make our industry available by showing young people what we’re all about” ...

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Dec 19, 2007

Trucking Shortage * Australia - Stops mango harvest

Dimbulah,Queensland,Australia -ABC Online - Dec 19, 2007: -- A far north Queensland mango grower says he has been forced to stop harvesting because of trucking shortages... Bruce Nastasi from Dimbulah wants to export 15,000 trays of the summer fruit, but says there are no trucks available... He says 40 staff have been laid off on his farm this week because there is no work... Mr Nastasi says a better rail network could be the solution and would allow producers to benefit from the busy Christmas period... "We've got a railway line heading south and we need railing equipment to rail our tropical fruit south for Christmas," he said... "The change of hands of farms and the way this area is going crazy, we'll need more transport"...

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