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May 26, 2017

TRUCKERS' SHORTAGE * USA: STOCKS AWARD PLAN

* Texas - Daseke combats trucker shortage with stock plan

--- Trucking company Daseke Inc. is starting what it calls a “ground-breaking” strategy to get its employees invested – literally – in the company... The Addison, Tex., business, which says it’s the largest owner of open-deck flatbed transportation in North America, announced a stock awards plan that would allow the company’s drivers and support team workers to essentially become shareholders... Daseke is setting aside a million shares of common stock currently valued at nearly $10 million for the 2,100 drivers and 800 support staff that have been on board since 2016. More will be earmarked for employees joining the team this year... Daseke said it is the first trucking company of its kind to attempt a stock plan perk. When the business went public earlier this year – the first in its sector to list since 2010, it was valued at about $700 million... 
(Photo: Daseke - Daseke driver secures a load on a flatbed truck)   --  Addison, TXS, USA - Trucks.com, by TIFFANY HSU - MAY 25, 2017

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Apr 1, 2017

DRIVERS' SHORTAGE * France: A Recruitment Biennal

* Grenoble - The logistics biennial: heading towards recruitment

--- The first Logistics Biennial organized by the Logistics Intelligence Center was held from March 7 to 10 in the heart of the Chesnes International Park in Nord-Isère. Participants were able to discover or make discover the trades and opportunities of the logistics sector, and the employees and students showcase their skills... With more than 1,300 visitors, the first edition of the Biennial of Logistics fulfilled its objectives. "This success demonstrates that this event responds to a strong need of businesses, the public and the territory. Logistics is a strategic sector for businesses, the economy and the territory of Nord-Isère: more than one in four, or more than 10,000 in the territory of the Porte de l'Isère urban agglomeration community (CAPI), is a logistical job, but employers are struggling to recruit for lack of candidates, " said Thomas Daudré-Vignier, Logistics Intelligence Center... 
(Photo: For its 4th edition, the first edition of the Biennial of Logistics welcomed more than 600 schoolchildren, high school students and professors and about 500 jobseekers and students)   --   Nord-Isère, Grenoble, France - (Actu Transport Logistique) - 27 March 2017

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Jun 28, 2016

DRIVERS SHORTAGE * USA

* Iowa - Trucking companies looking for new recruits

... One out of every 13 Iowans works in the trucking industry — that includes truck driving instructor Randy Grey, who is beginning to think about retirement — along with many other truck drivers in the state... The average age of an Iowan truck driver is 57, so trucking companies are working to bring in new drivers... Trucking companies in Iowa are changing the way potential hires look at the trucking business... Surveys from the Iowa Motor Carriers Foundation shows 73 percent of Iowans surveyed have a positive view of what has been a thriving business for the state... With programs offering truck driving certification opportunities, like those at North Iowa Area Community College, new faces are considering this as a career... And with nearly 12,000 registered Iowa companies that send truckers throughout the country, it’s no wonder why they want to keep the trucker momentum going... The staring salary for a truck driver in Iowa is $43,000 a year... 
Mason City, Iowa, USA -  - KIMT, by Robyn Oguinye - June 20, 2016

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Jan 9, 2016

TRUCKERS TURNOVER * USA: ... A Solution !!!

* Tennessee - 100% driver turnover hurts trucking industry: Correct M&A approach can fix it

-- The American Trucking Associations’ count, annual driver turnover runs nearly 100% at so-called large truckload carriers, also known as long-haul truckers. And if it costs $3,000-to-$5,000 to recruit and hire one driver (I’m told that estimate is conservative), keeping the million or so long-haul driver jobs (1) filled every year represents a $3 billion-to-$5 billion toll on an industry that already suffers from narrow profit margins and an enormous need for capital... The turnover is disastrous for drivers, too. Many are never at a single employer long enough to accumulate any retirement savings. They typically live paycheck-to-paycheck while employed, and then suffer a big step down in income when they retire with only social security... This article will examine the decade-old ESOP at Paladin Capital Inc. (formerly Quickway Distribution Services Inc.), a 1,000-truck operation based in Nashville. The company’s driver turnover – 20% voluntary, 15% or so initiated by Paladin as it enforces lofty quality standards – sets it apart from the industry... The ESOP, however, has turned many Paladin drivers into evangelists for the company. They refer nearly 40% of new drivers and are paid a $2,500 bonus for every hire they bring in. Kendall Ray, a Louisville driver for Paladin, has brought in three successful recruits. Once, while shopping in a Dollar General store, Ray was talking up Paladin to a fellow truck driver he ran into. That guy didn’t come aboard, but another driver who was two aisles away and overheard the conversation introduced himself and did join Paladin. “I approach ‘em where I see ‘em,” Ray says. “A lot of the time they’re not satisfied” at their current job... 
(1) The Labor Department says, as of 2014, there were 1.8 million heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers in the U.S. A large minority of those work for companies like UPS that have low turnover. But the majority are at independent trucking firms where turnover runs very high... 
(Photo: Quickway Carriers trucks) -- Nashville, TENN, USA - Forbes, by Mary Josephs - JAN 6, 2016

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Oct 21, 2015

TRUCKERS' SHORTAGE SOLUTION * USA: Military veterans for driver position

* Pennsylvania - Fastport’s military veteran-hiring effort expands to retention


-- Fastport Inc., a job placement service active in an industry effort to hire military veterans for driver positions, has embarked on a retention campaign, says Jim Ray, a co-founder and member of an old-line trucking family... Fastport now has 12 top fleets that participate in its veteran-hiring work, and Ray wants 50 more trucking companies to be part of the retention effort... Hiring veterans remains a top goal because of the current driver shortage... Ray said Fastport has partnered with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Hiring Our Heroes program to create a Trucking Track Mentoring Program that maintains contact with vets after they are hired... Five thousands such contacts have been made through participating trucking companies, and Fastport has processed 15,000 on-line “quick” applications for employment... The American Trucking Associations and the Truckload Carriers Association together have pledged to hire 150,000 veterans for trucking jobs over a two-year period. And the Owner Operator-Independent Drivers Association "provided great educational material for those veterans that want to someday become entrepreneurs" ... As part of its hiring program, Fastport is building a data base of available jobs, qualifying applicants before they apply, then putting them in direct touch with prospective employers. The effort is complicated because so many trucking firms are small and medium-size fleets that are not represented by any recognized organizations... 
(Photo: Fastport - Service men and women who are transitioning to civilian life attending a "hiring fair" at Fort Drum, New York)  --  Philadelphia, - Truckinginfo, by Tom Berg - October 18, 2015

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Oct 14, 2015

TRUCKERS' SHORTAGE SOLUTIONS * USA: Over next five years plan to help mitigate it

* Arizona - Collaboration viewed as way to combat driver shortage

-- Driver shortage increases by 27%, according to ATA... More sharing of capacity and joint development of economies of scale expected among shippers, 3PLs, brokers and motor carriers over next five years to help mitigate capacity issues due to lack of drivers... In order to gain more supply chain efficiencies and cost savings in an increasingly tight truck capacity environment driven by a growing shortage of drivers, more “collaborative” relationships are expected to be formed between shippers, third party logistics (3PL) providers, freight brokers and motor carriers over the next five years – even among erstwhile competitors, according to several industry observers, said Scott Trainor, senior manager-global marketing at APL Logistics... Years ago, he said, logistics was a matter of delivering the right product to the right place at the right time and in the right condition... “Today, though, you also have to add ‘via the right sales channel’ and ‘at the lowest possible price,’ to that description,” Trainor emphasized... “Today’s customers expect considerably faster, more agile and more multi-faceted service … even smaller, more frequent deliveries. In addition, many consumers are beginning to consider same-day delivery something that every company should be able to do,” he noted... 
Scottsdale, AZ, USA - Fleet Owner, by Sean Kilcarr - Oct 13, 2015

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May 8, 2015

BEHIND THE WHEELS * USA: Fifth graders boys and girls get a glimpse on trucking industry

* Pennsylvania - Big trucks and equipment help teach career options

(Video: Heavy Truck Driving Career Overview, by citytowninfo - Jul 1, 2009: Interested in driving heavy trucks for a living? Watch this video to learn what a career as a heavy truck driver is really like. Provides an overview of the day to day working life of a heavy truck driver)

 -- Hundreds of fifth graders from throughout the northern tier were taking a little ride into their futures on Wednesday... The boys and girls were able to get behind the wheel of all kinds of trucks and heavy equipment and in the process, get a glimpse of the many careers available to them. We were there for the fun at the Harford Fairgrounds... Fifth graders were bending pipes like they do on the natural gas drill rigs throughout the northern tier. They were hopping behind the wheel of a PennDOT plow truck, too... This was called Vehicular Career Day at the Harford Fairgrounds and there certainly were a variety of vehicles for more than 600 students from Susquehanna, Bradford, and Wyoming Counties to see up close... These fifth graders are a long way from a career, but this puts some options in their heads early on... That’s the reason Northern Tier Industry and Education Consortium organizes this. It also gives the companies involved a chance to share what they do... There were 22 businesses and agencies represented... 
Harford Township, Susquehanna County, PA, USA - 16 WNEP, by JON MEYER - MAY 6, 2015

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Apr 25, 2015

DRIVERS' SHORTAGE * USA: Attracting truckers

* Georgia - One shipper at a time

  --  There is no easy or single solution to what many believe is a worsening truck driver shortage in the U.S.A., but that’s not stopping motor carriers and their customers from escalating their response... Trucking industry executives speaking on an April 22 panel at the 10th annual Chainalytics Freight Market Intelligence Summit in Atlanta cited a lengthy list of demographic realities working against their best efforts to hire and keep drivers, including an aging driver population and continuing underrepresentation by women among drivers... And they were forceful in stating that trucking companies can’t solve the issue on their own. They not only need shippers’ help, but it’s also in shippers’ best interest to play a role in making truck driving a more acceptable profession. With trucking companies keeping scorecards of customers, drivers knowing which customers’ facilities are the most driver-friendly, and drivers in certain cases having a choice of which customers’ freight to haul, the onus is turning to the shipper to get involved... Shippers are beginning to catch on to the need to make their facilities driver-friendly, but for many, it’s still a new concept... 
 Atlanta, GA, USA - JOC, by Peter Tirschwell - Apr 23, 2015

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Nov 26, 2012

TRUCKER STORIES * USA

* California - Shilling in the Trucking Industry

Sacramento,CAL,USA -Truckers Report, by Mack Way -23 Nov 2012: -- The single greatest asset the modern trucking company has may very well be the shill. Without the shill, the poverty wage, homeless truck driver would realize he/she is being badly abused by the company and force some positive changes like living wages, equitable work rules, tolerable working conditions and not failing to mention the elimination of ‘bullying - intimidation’ tactics while at work... Shills often have poor safety and customer service records. Many reported that shills working for their employer have more than their share of vehicular accidents, many involving large $$$ pay outs. When confronted, the shill will typically respond with ‘I’m a producer’ or ‘the company can’t do without me’ or something similar. Many report that had anyone else experienced even a fraction of the vehicle accidents or customer service complaints they would have been shown the door long ago... No doubt that shills are the worst (or best?) kept secret of the trucking industry. However, there is a ‘wall of silence’ about the origins and training these people receive. Thinking it must pay pretty well as these people continually boast about their ‘above average’ earnings, always well above the typical line employee if true...
* California - Trucking Industry Blames Driver Shortage of Truck Drivers on Safety Regulations

Los Angeles,CAL,USA -Robert Reeves Law -November 20, 2012: -- The trucking industry is poised to face a massive shortage of truck drivers over the next few years. The industry, not surprisingly, is blaming a number of factors for this shortfall, including more stringent trucking safety regulations that are now in place, and a number of soon-to-be implemented dramatic rule changes, like revised hours of service. The industry insists that these changes are driving away truck drivers, leading to the shortfall... Trucking companies as well as trucking accident attorneys agree on one fact – there is a severe shortfall of truck drivers in the United States... Part of the reason why not too many young men are interested in being truck drivers is that the job has lost much of its appeal. Everyone knows now that long-haul truckers have long and stressful jobs that require them to work alone for long periods of time, and stay away from home for weeks at an end. Staying away for such long periods of time wreaks havoc on your family lives, and this is part of the reason why these jobs have lost their lure. Trucking jobs can play well, but once you take away taxes and account for the fact that you may not have much of a work-life balance, the salary seems to lose its glitz as well...


* USA - Important Facts About Freight Trucking Companies And Container Trucking. CDL jobs will always need drivers or probably America will Stop

  (Video from YouTube, by lifeasatrucker - 13 June 2010: Just trucking. Only went through 3 open scales during road check this year. Got checked out once, it was all good)
Indiana,USA -Donanakdapi199 -18 Nov 2012: -- It is primary for the driver and trailers to be licensed for one place they are going that can transport goods. Be prepared to back up wards your statements with proof in order to do so. Or, maybe the carrier never were around to doing anything although the safety auditor didn’t try a very thorough job. Right from the exact transportation of seeds, fertilizers to required machinery for agriculture, you can the transportation of final options and by-products of agriculture, trucking companies help farmers and other humans associated with agriculture based corporations or small industries... Great need of Trucks for Industries – Every day industry needs raw materials then fuels to keep their processes smooth. It is usually a job that is escorted with regulations making it a meaningful bit similar to how agency submit reports or how consultants compute tax amounts to do with tax documents and returns. The best methods for overcoming challenges in regards to a trucking companies career include patience, expectations and dedication...


* Tennessee - Trucking Industry Gearing Up For Strong Holiday Jobs 

Murfreesboro,TENN,USA -TDI Webmaster -November 19, 2012: -- Increases in cargo volume throughout the next few months for the holiday season are an opportunity for an additional increase in trucking jobs... The holiday season it's an special opportunity for new truck drivers to obtain truck driving jobs. While many truck driving schools can take months to complete, in recognition of the holiday season opportunity there are some who offers accelerated truck driving training programs... Truck carriers responsible for transporting increased goods throughout the fall months and the holiday season are recruiting truck drivers now...

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Oct 27, 2010

DRIVERS' SHORTAGE * USA - High-paying jobs found in trucking industry



Houston,TX,USA -KTRK, by Tom Abrahams -October 27, 2010: -- Day after day and night after night, stories of unemployment and the bad economy dominate headlines. This story is not one of them. There's an industry where employers can't find enough people to hire for high-paying jobs... Tristan Worell is searching for the right path, and he hopes he's found it behind the wheel of a truck... "Going over the road, exploring different states, cities," Worell said... It's not been an easy road for Worrell, who went straight out of college and straight into unemployment... Drivers can make anywhere from $40,000 to $80,000 a year driving Class A trucks... Worell, in fact, already has a job. He got hired by Schneider Trucking, and they sent him, along with Padilla and others, to HCC to learn the skills and pass the tests. Then they can hit the road... It's an industry that may tell us better times are just around the bend...

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May 20, 2010

DRIVERS' SHORTAGE * Canada & USA - So, where will transportation employers find skilled workers in the future?...

Trucking needs new ideas to fix pending worker shortage

Calgary,ALB,CAN -Today's Trucking -19 May 2010: -- As the economy continues to trend upwards, it’s predicted a qualified driver shortage will reappear in the trucking industry, but attracting new workers isn’t a problem isolated to transportation... A variety of sectors will face the prospect of a minimal workforce and, according to the Alberta Motor Transport Association, Alberta alone can expect to see a shortage of about 92,000 workers by the year 2018 due to the aging workforce and declining birthrate... The challenge for carriers won’t be isolated to the driver pool either. Trucking companies could face growing competition in finding employees to fill gaps throughout their operations... The AMTA has partnered with Viable Calgary to develop a workplace inclusion plan designed to provide transportation employers with helpful information for hiring and retaining disabled workers... This has resulted in the development of a plan tailored to the road transportation industry that is filled with practical tips and an extensive list of resources... (Photo from comps.fotosearch: logging truck northern Canada)


* USA - Driver Pay Falling as Demand Rises, Study Shows. Morgan Stanley warns falling pay could hobble carriers in expansion

New York,NY,USA -The Journal of Commerce Online, by William B. Cassidy -May 19, 2010: -- Trucking executives may get the driver shortage they fear unless they reverse wage trends in the industry, an investment research firm warned today... Truck driver pay dropped 6.6 percent from late 2008 through the first quarter of 2010, and continued to decline in April, according to Morgan Stanley Research... That's twice the decline in pay truck drivers suffered during the 2001-2003 downturn, according to Morgan Stanley's Truckload Wage Index... In April, the gap between wages and salaries for all private industry workers and truckers widened to almost 20 percentage points, according to the Truckload Wage Index... The survey shows driver pay falling even as trucking companies report surging freight demand and concerns over a potential shortage of truck drivers later this year... Transportation analysts called "aggressive" driver pay reductions "counterintuitive," suggesting they may be responsible for the "shortage" some carriers are experiencing... Driver shortages that tighten capacity may be "good for pricing," but hefty pay increases could cut into profit margins, offsetting pricing gains, Greene and Longson said... Driver pay shot up by as much as 12 percent in that period, they said...

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Apr 1, 2009

TRUCKERS' SURPLUS * USA - Recession turns U.S. trucker shortage to surplus

Detroit,MICH,USA -Reuters, by Nick Carey -Mar 31, 2009: -- If you think now is a good time to try your hand as a U.S. truck driver with steady pay and a life on the open road, think again... The U.S. recession has turned a serious shortage of drivers into a surplus virtually overnight. Disappearing credit has hurt production and shipments of goods of all kinds all at once, idling thousands of trucks... "When I began trucking two years ago you couldn't throw a dime up in the air without hitting a trucking job," said Brian Short, 26. "Those days are gone."... (Photo by Rebecca Cook/REUTERS: Freight trucks are driven on the Fisher freeway in Detroit, Michigan March 27, 2009)

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Aug 30, 2008

TRUCKERS' SHORTAGE * Canada - Alberta Immigrant Nominee Program (AINP)

Lethbridge,Alberta,Canada -Trucking Life, by Lyndon Lomanovskis -August 29, 2008: -- To address the critical skill shortage of workers in the Alberta Trucking Industry, the Alberta Provincial Nominee Program (PNP) will consider an employer’s business case for the select occupation of Long Haul Truck Driver... Please note that on June 19, 2008, the Alberta Provincial Nominee Program (PNP) became the Alberta Immigrant Nominee Program (AINP)... What is the AINP? The AINP is an immigration program operated on behalf of the Government of Alberta by the Ministry of Employment and Immigration in conjunction with Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) to expedite the processing of an application for permanent residence... The AINP is designed to support Alberta's economic growth by attracting labour-market-destined immigrants to the province... Individuals nominated by the Province of Alberta, together with their spouse and dependent children, are eligible to apply for a permanent resident visa through CIC as a Provincial Nominee. CIC expedites permanent resident applications from Provincial Nominees and makes final decisions on the permanent resident applications...

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Jul 2, 2008

The Freewheelers * USA - Boomers have discovered the joys of truckdriving

New York,NY,USA -Newsweek, by Jemimah Noonoo -1 July 2008: -- When Daniel Cruz, 57, lost his job counseling HIV patients last year, he hoped to find a new job in the social services, where he had worked for more than two decades. But after several months of interviews, nothing came up. One afternoon, while hunting for jobs online, he saw an ad for a driving position with Schneider National Trucking, the nation's largest trucking carrier. He decided to apply, though he'd never been behind the wheel of anything larger than a minivan, and joined a growing number of baby boomers who are breaking free of office life to become truckdrivers on the open road. "I don't want to be sitting behind a desk anymore," Cruz says. "I did that for too many years."... At Schneider, the number of drivers 50 and over has increased by 46 percent since 2005—they now make up one third of its driving staff of 15,000. Others are starting to follow Schneider's lead. At Watkins and Shepard Trucking of Helena, Mont., the number of drivers over 50 has steadily increased in the past few years. And hits on GetTrucking.com, a recruiting Web site that targets drivers older than 50 and minorities, have gone from 500 to about 4,000 per week over the past few months...

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Jun 15, 2008

DRIVERS' SHORTAGE * Canada - Truckers getting double blow

In fact, some freight operations are laying off employees in droves, if not going belly up altogether...

Ontario,CA,USA -The Associated Press /The Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, by Matt Wrye -13 June 2008: -- ... A slowing economy and the skyrocketing cost of fuel is hurting small to mid-sized trucking companies in San Bernardino and Riverside counties with no relief in sight... According to Donald Broughton, transportation industry analyst at the investment firm Avondale Partners, during the first three months of this year, 935 trucking companies filed for bankruptcy. That's the highest failure rate seen since the economic slump of the early 2000s... Broughton estimates that more than 42,000 long-haul trucks - roughly 2percent of the nation's fleet of about 2million - were idled during the quarter... The large number of long-haul trucks that have been taken off the road is only one part of what's making it easier for long-haul trucking companies to find drivers. A softening economy with fewer jobs in construction and other industries that truckers might work in also is helping, Broughton said... Kelly Anderson, a consultant who advises trucking companies on how to attract drivers, said many have shifted their focus away from recruitment...

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May 16, 2008

Outsourcing the Recruiting Process * USA - Can boost the number of qualified candidates and cut processing costs

RPO Helps ExxonMobil Keep the Trucks Rolling

Irvine,Ca,USA -Workforce Management, by Fay Hansen -15 may 2008: -- Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, ExxonMobil Corp. keeps 150 company-owned tanker trucks on the road and an almost equal number of contract tankers, each carrying 9,000 to 14,000 gallons of gasoline or diesel fuel to replenish filling stations across the United States... An industry calculation is that it takes a "butts-to-trucks" ratio of 3.3 to keep the tankers moving, but an acute shortage of qualified drivers poses a stiff recruiting challenge. But when ExxonMobil brought in Martin Pullman from its U.K. operations in July to manage its U.S. fleet, Pullman saw too many tankers parked in lots because of the driver shortage... In trucking, labor costs typically account for 70 percent of total expenses, and truck costs represent 30 percent, according to Pullman... Pullman outsourced the recruiting process for ExxonMobil drivers to solve the problem... With a decade-long shortage of drivers only becoming more acute, the demand for long-haul drivers will grow at an average annual rate of 2.2 percent over the next decade, but supply will increase only 1.6 percent, generating a total shortfall of more than 100,000 drivers a year by 2014, according to the American Trucking Association... The problem is exacerbated by extraordinarily high turnover rates in all segments of the trucking industry. Turnover for long-haul commercial drivers, who represent the for-hire segment, may run as high as 120 percent. Turnover for private carriers, which operate fleets solely for the purpose of shipping their own goods, averages 20 percent... Because of high demand, commercial drivers are constantly shopping jobs... Before Pullman turned to outsourcing, supervisors at each ExxonMobil depot handled all recruiting. And the results were poor... For every 10 candidates ExxonMobil supervisors interviewed, only one passed all the tests and qualified for an offer... With MTS, ExxonMobil now averages seven or eight hires for every 10 interviews conducted... Pullman adds that the MTS arrangement has allowed ExxonMobil to raise the overall workforce quality. Since MTS took over recruiting, the company’s safety record—measured by the number of accidents per 1 million miles driven—has improved by 25 percent... MTS estimates that the task of filling one to three open driver positions requires 100 respondents and 130 to 176 man-hours to process them. Costs for non-hire screenings and communications are typically the largest portion of recruiting expenses... Across its entire client base, for every 10 candidates MTS sends out, 90 percent to 95 percent are hired. This high hit rate, however, depends not only on presenting qualified candidates but also on gathering detailed information about the open positions...

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