There is no trucker shortage I repeat: THERE Is NO TRUCKER SHORTAGE! Only a shortage in pay and quality of life! I’m an owner operator telling you that the trucker shortage is a myth.
I'm not sure about that. The reason truck stops are full at night is when the eld regulations was fully emplemented. Why be a company driver making 1000 a week when you can work for uber making 1000 a week and be home every night.
As some of you mentioned, it's not the shortage. Driving a truck puts too much toll on health, compensation is not adequate and families fall apart because drivers on the road for months. How do I know this? I was a driver myself. I went from one job to another, from one employer to another and got tired. Don't see myself going back anytime soon or ever! Another note, truck drivers are very important essential workers. But they never get credit for what they do. We hear more about military and hospital personel that they are heroes, that they are Frontline workers. No argument about it. But t what about the truck drivers? Who is gonna be grateful to those poor souls?? America and world overall is messed up place, and COVID-19 brought the craziness out!
There is not a shortage of drivers. There is a shortage of drivers that are willing to work for the still low wages quoted in this video. Any company that pays drivers $200k a year has enough drivers.
@@paganlecter6819 no they don’t most local drivers get the same 15-20 an hour as everyone else. Over the road drivers do make a little more depending on the company they work for. The drivers that get paid the most are union drivers which there aren’t that many drivers unions and then you have private owner operators.
My company is working to replace drivers completely lol. Gl! 100k+ a year per driver is too much overhead. Right now we are doing road tests, within 5 years, we are looking to replace professional truckers with regular trained drivers at 40-50k. More than half saved for our clients.
This couldn't be more true. Now it is coming back to bite them into behind. All these companies that are making cuts for higher profit margins now can't move the merchandise because they 'can't' pay their drivers An independent operator has to travel across the country with a load and pray that he can get a load of goods going back so that he can just make ends meet. All the while they have to pay their expenses on the repairs of their vehicle, fuel, food and lodging. It's a shame!!! And now it's come back to bit them, maybe now they'll pay truckers a decent wage.
@@prancer1803 there is not a shortage,they can’t hold on to drivers because the wages are starving drivers. Container ships are sitting out in the ocean waiting to unload because the China virus slowed everything down.
Yep. This is called wage inflation. Doesn’t make sense to go to work if if everything around you keeps getting more expensive. I think truckers should get $250k per year plus benefits plus pension and a month off. Actually I believe that about almost all blue collar jobs. If some idiot out of college can get a job at google or Facebook and make $150k per year adding nothing to the real economy, then the people who build and transport and keep the wheels of the economy turning, pun intended, need to be paid more. This “shortage” is false flag propaganda. Pay the people what they are worth and you will have no problem.
@@anthonyyoung6489 truer words can not be said,not many people feel that way,most think that we (truck drivers) are uneducated homeless people.But don’t realize most f us have very good educations and degrees.It’s just a choice of life that we decided to have.. They can try to lower the driving age(like how they’ve been talking about) but the truth is good drivers that love the job are hard to keep if you don’t show appreciation enough to pay them well..
I was a truck driver for 4 years from 05-09. No way, you can keep that God forsaken work. Underpaid, overworked, under appreciated, and it's beyond a hostile work environment...it's a hostile work industry. It'll challenge the mental health of a person. It'll break most people down.
@@kyvirlogistics4993 There's 3.3 million truck drivers. That's 1 out of every 100 people. I believe him when he said "As a truck driver..." which I guess you missed.
Yep, I did it for 10 years and just took 8 years off, went back to school and got two AA degrees to take a pay cut and make 1/2 what I was making. But the time spent with my kids was worth it. no I'm going back out (in orientation for a good small company RN) so I can make some good money again. I need a retirement fund I'm almost 40 and don't have anything yet.
3 main reasons I see for the shortage. Over regulation, pay shortage, and blood sucking lawyers and the court system giving drivers the shaft to get their big paychecks.
There is no shortage of truck driver cannot believe WSJ cannot do this simple research. It is how a truck driver is utilized. How many hours is your truck waiting to get loaded and off loaded? During these delays the truck driver are not compensated or poorly compensated.
Federally it is mandatory to pay them if they wait over 2 hours. Unfortunately the scammers rarely get brought to the labor board, Bc they almost always lose when they do
Turnover for truck drivers in fleets with more than $30 million of annual revenue was 92% at the end of 2020, meaning roughly 9 out of every 10 drivers will no longer be working for that company in a year.Nov 12, 2021
I started in this industry on May 2021, my age 56 years old, there is one thing that bothers me the most, lacking to parking, in Union City Georgia my truck was booted and a instant pay and leave $500 at huge empty parking commercial plaza at 11:00 pm, pay or get towed 🤦🏻♂️ Pay $500 and leave immediately, even after I paid I was not allow to take my mandatory 10 hour break, so jump to a ramp at highway entrance and sleep with all that high speed noise 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️ Truck stops, some charge for parking, enormous amounts of trucks and bunch of don't take care drivers throwing trash and urine at those truck stop parking lots, diesel pumps with diesel spills, this industry needs to be reinvented.
Low pay, danger, harassment by shippers, receivers & law enforcement. Poor quality health insurance, lousy hours & never home! Trucking companies treat drivers like trash! Companies quote rules that aren't in the company rulebook. Automobile drivers cause a huge, major portion of truck/car accidents! Total BS job! Get a job at McDonalds, you'll make more money in the long run! Almost forgot to mention that trucking in the future will be self driving vehicles, drivers will be forced back to flipping burgers. In 5-10 years there will be no need for over the road drivers
It doesn't work that way.. in the beginning it's a horrible job.. the problem is truck drivers are treated with no respect from the company all the way to the receiving department. There is no respect for truck drivers.
Being responsible for such a monstrous machine and having to drive on todays roads full of psychosis has got to rank high in the worst job ever category. You would have to love it or you wouldn't last.
The government says there is a driver shortage but what the government don't tell you is they are making it harder and harder to become truck driver or just to be a truck driver. The government is the problem.
young ppl do not do trucking. it ll mess your health up and those bonuses are scam. Its a very stressful job. Do your research by talking to older truckers.
Their wages don't reflect it. There's a $10,000 sign on bonus, they don't tell you then negatives that cost us money. I'm a truck driver in Toronto, I've been waiting 4 days for work with my current company
@@Ty-uy6bf and pay $50,000 for the birth of my kids? 🤣 Common man. America and Canada both have their perks. Truckings all the same out here. Oilfields the same, everything boss lol
@@Themiddleman416 nah canada has a extremely weak economy right now. Seen it first hand, people with 15+ years experience in the medical field couldn’t find work. So they came to US or overseas 🤷🏾♂️ speaks volumes about ur country. I’ll give a couple years until canada became the best country like it was 10 years ago. I wanna move there it’s extremely beautiful but it’s a financial reset moving there possible falling into debt
I get paid from the time I clock in to the time I clock out, twelve hour shifts, five-day schedule with an extra day optional, weekends off for re-set.
look at the spot rates in the trucking industry. If there were a shortage of drivers, shippers would be outbidding each other to get their loads hauled. That's not the case, therefore no shortage. Another fact to be confronted is, if there is a shortage of 70 or 80 000 drivers, wouldn't it mean that there are 80 000 loads being left on the nation's loading docks and not getting hauled?? Again, not the case, so no shortage.
im class b and cant get anything . class a 3 yrs exp needed home once a month eld b.s. no waiting pay you cover your own insurance all kinds of fees NO PARKING!!! NO PARKING but then no lee way if i go over my on duty times by even minutes to find it you get counted for on duty time to run to a store for food .bathroom essentials it chips into your wage better off flipping fries without the responsibility and paying for cdl skills its not worth it if your lucky and find a nice boss great but theywant to get a new audi and your gonna chip in
I don't know what these people are talking about I'm a company driver I bring home anywhere from 1800 to $2,000 a week after taxes last year I saved up 75k paid off all my debt of 28k and bought a house paid for with cash and both of my vehicles are paid off truck driving has changed my life for the better and my company treats me like gold
Nah, we stop playing politics with the plandemic and open up this country fully again. There is no real shortage of anything. It's intentional blocking from the people who run this country because they are profiting from the chaos being manufactured.
The industry is to boom and bust. I quit driving 12 years ago because there just wasn't a demand for drivers. I had a class 1 with 2 years highway and mountain experience. No tickets and never damaged a tractor trailer or freight. And always good relations with customers and dispatch/drivers/yard workers. Yet all I was able to get was 5 ton in town deliveries. Sure there is big demand right now, but how long will that last? Maybe right now I could make more driving then I get working in an office. However my office job pay is going to stay stable for years. Truck driving not so much.
Yeah and does your brother also enjoys taking showers at truck stops? Being away from home weeks at a time? Sleeping in a cabin with generator running during cold nights? Stay in college 😉😉😉
This segment shows how trucking industry emposter sees their perspective and not from a truck driver perspective. Absolutely nothing they said isn't true, let's go Brandon from former truck driver.
@@kidstlme8230 wow you are a special sort of stupid. The President signed a mandate, governors have signed mandates, and mayor's have signed mandates. businesses follow these mandates and this the mandate has the same exact impact on the supply chain as a law. So your point is moot Another product of a broken education system here.
Trucking companies is built off of free labor loopholes. The money they owe you is the sign on bonus broken down 90 days to 12 months. 1 company truck with a driver who avg 2700 miles a week can generate 8- 13k per week for that company.
Ask for a relocation bonus. If they decline say you’re really interested but want to keep shopping for a position with a relocation bonus. If they’re desperate they will bite, and you’ll likely still be eligible for the 90 day bonus.
This is just another BS report. $10,000 bonus what a crock, they don’t tell you it’s $1000 a year for 10 years. There are more than enough truck drivers out there what we need is more warehouse workers and more warehouses to get this stuff unloaded in a timely manner.
This is where migrants and refugees can help developed nations. They can work in both blue collar jobs and white collar jobs. They are satisfied with the existing minimum wage rates and they save in that.
My company is working to replace drivers completely lol. Gl! 100k+ a year per driver is too much overhead. Right now we are doing road tests, within 5 years, we are looking to replace professional truckers with regular trained drivers at 40-50k. More than half saved for our clients. Autonomous exists, but it’s a transition that will take up to a decade before wide adoption. Truckers are out of profession in the next decade.
@@peterisawesomeplease definitely will take at least two decades.. And let’s not forget construction 🚧 you can’t rebuild U.S. infrastructure without trucks!!
Your first year look forward to $600 70hr a week paychecks. Once you pass the 2 year mark your pay improves. Most new drivers quit within 6 months. The pay is dismal
The Wall Street journal should have there license to report the news REVOKED! The trucking rates are at an all time LOW!! The WSJ is being paid by ATA to report FALSE information.
So the lesson to learn is that loyalty to a company is worthless when they are paying you to quit and work for someone else. Gotta love Capitalism. Also, I work for Knight/Swift. Dunno where they are pulling this 60k a year from.
@@jdrancho1864 If you had enough truck drivers (American, Mexican or else) there would never be any shortage of truck drivers, Is this really hard to understand?
Trains? So every supermarket and shopping center in the country is located next to a railyard? Otherwise HOW DOES THE MERCHANDISE GET TO THE STORE FROM THE TRAIN? WHAT MANNER OF CONVEYANCE EXISTS TO DO THAT?
@@sentimentaltech3537 The inception date for a vax mandate is -4 Jan..NEXT YEAR. No guarantee it's even going to happen. The only mandate that I see having an effect are the ones Trump put into effect.
If they gave the cdl class a classes for cheaper or free through an employer that would help. Also please explain to me what happens to those workers once the supply chain is “ unclogged “. Lastly seems like an industry created problem especially when the Tesla trucks came out yesterday or are coming out this week with many companies having them on preorder.
plenty of ways around mandates most old timers argue this because they cant run continuously during daylight hours. Plenty of ways to bend Eld mandates legally just takes some common sense.
There is no trucker shortage I repeat: THERE Is NO TRUCKER SHORTAGE! Only a shortage in pay and quality of life! I’m an owner operator telling you that the trucker shortage is a myth.
Yep
I'm not sure about that. The reason truck stops are full at night is when the eld regulations was fully emplemented. Why be a company driver making 1000 a week when you can work for uber making 1000 a week and be home every night.
Exactly! There is a shortage in fair and acceptable pay and homelife
No shortage of inactive drivers... they just do not want this life.
@@Aj-qb3pr So... they're grossly underpaid. The dude above is still right. I think y'all agree actually.
As some of you mentioned, it's not the shortage. Driving a truck puts too much toll on health, compensation is not adequate and families fall apart because drivers on the road for months. How do I know this? I was a driver myself. I went from one job to another, from one employer to another and got tired. Don't see myself going back anytime soon or ever!
Another note, truck drivers are very important essential workers. But they never get credit for what they do. We hear more about military and hospital personel that they are heroes, that they are Frontline workers. No argument about it. But t what about the truck drivers? Who is gonna be grateful to those poor souls?? America and world overall is messed up place, and COVID-19 brought the craziness out!
I’m grateful for y’all, I lot of yinz are really nice and are the soul of the road!
Ill go back
Give me money, more money than cpm
Add in the fact that a truck driver is more likely to be killed on the job than the "first responders" seems to get left out too.
WELL SAID
Its not a worker shortage, its a pay shortage.
Yep & not enuff miles
Yep. No guaranteed detention pay and only cpm pay? Im outta here!
There is not a shortage of drivers. There is a shortage of drivers that are willing to work for the still low wages quoted in this video. Any company that pays drivers $200k a year has enough drivers.
Amen
Truck drivers get six figures?
@@paganlecter6819 no they don’t most local drivers get the same 15-20 an hour as everyone else. Over the road drivers do make a little more depending on the company they work for. The drivers that get paid the most are union drivers which there aren’t that many drivers unions and then you have private owner operators.
My company is working to replace drivers completely lol. Gl! 100k+ a year per driver is too much overhead. Right now we are doing road tests, within 5 years, we are looking to replace professional truckers with regular trained drivers at 40-50k. More than half saved for our clients.
This couldn't be more true. Now it is coming back to bite them into behind. All these companies that are making cuts for higher profit margins now can't move the merchandise because they 'can't' pay their drivers
An independent operator has to travel across the country with a load and pray that he can get a load of goods going back so that he can just make ends meet. All the while they have to pay their expenses on the repairs of their vehicle, fuel, food and lodging. It's a shame!!! And now it's come back to bit them, maybe now they'll pay truckers a decent wage.
There is no driver shortage..Pay the existing drivers better and you’ll stop losing drivers.
Don’t you think the shortage will increasing driving wages though?
@@prancer1803 there is not a shortage,they can’t hold on to drivers because the wages are starving drivers. Container ships are sitting out in the ocean waiting to unload because the China virus slowed everything down.
Yep. This is called wage inflation. Doesn’t make sense to go to work if if everything around you keeps getting more expensive.
I think truckers should get $250k per year plus benefits plus pension and a month off.
Actually I believe that about almost all blue collar jobs.
If some idiot out of college can get a job at google or Facebook and make $150k per year adding nothing to the real economy, then the people who build and transport and keep the wheels of the economy turning, pun intended, need to be paid more.
This “shortage” is false flag propaganda. Pay the people what they are worth and you will have no problem.
@@anthonyyoung6489 truer words can not be said,not many people feel that way,most think that we (truck drivers) are uneducated homeless people.But don’t realize most f us have very good educations and degrees.It’s just a choice of life that we decided to have.. They can try to lower the driving age(like how they’ve been talking about) but the truth is good drivers that love the job are hard to keep if you don’t show appreciation enough to pay them well..
Yep
I was a truck driver for 4 years from 05-09. No way, you can keep that God forsaken work. Underpaid, overworked, under appreciated, and it's beyond a hostile work environment...it's a hostile work industry. It'll challenge the mental health of a person. It'll break most people down.
Could not agree with you more. You couldn’t pay me enough to truck anymore. Trucking sucks. 30+ year former driver.
I was a dispatcher for my dads trucking company at that time and we closed down the business.
You just drove for the wrong Companies !
@@garyjones3142 lucky you.
Ehh.. it aint that serious lol being a cop is definitely harder
As a 30 year veteran driver, I wouldn't work for Swift for 500k a year.
Here in Ontario, Canada, a AZ driver makes $22 to $24/hr. Meanwhile, a forklift driver makes $25/hr, and he's home every night.
To be honest. Forklift seems more hard work, stress and focussing than driving a truck. As a truck driver I would not want to trade jobs with forklift
@@nstl440 LoL... look who doesn’t drive a truck
@@kyvirlogistics4993 There's 3.3 million truck drivers. That's 1 out of every 100 people. I believe him when he said "As a truck driver..." which I guess you missed.
@@Ray-tx2ls come at me bro
Here in Santa Rosa ca a trucker can make $34-38 an hour pretty easily, a forklift driver can only make between $17-24.
I've been an over the road trucker for 12 years, it takes patience and guts to do this job!
Yep, I did it for 10 years and just took 8 years off, went back to school and got two AA degrees to take a pay cut and make 1/2 what I was making. But the time spent with my kids was worth it. no I'm going back out (in orientation for a good small company RN) so I can make some good money again. I need a retirement fund I'm almost 40 and don't have anything yet.
3 main reasons I see for the shortage. Over regulation, pay shortage, and blood sucking lawyers and the court system giving drivers the shaft to get their big paychecks.
Truckers get ripped off by the companies they work for too often for me to be interested
sign on bonus are a scam. You don't get it until a curtain months are achieved and then you don't even get all of it
Sign-on bonus is a way to avoid the risks of increasing pay.
Sometimes, you can always ask for a relocation bonus and see if they’ll bite for an immediate one since they’re desperate
There is no shortage of truck driver cannot believe WSJ cannot do this simple research. It is how a truck driver is utilized. How many hours is your truck waiting to get loaded and off loaded? During these delays the truck driver are not compensated or poorly compensated.
Federally it is mandatory to pay them if they wait over 2 hours. Unfortunately the scammers rarely get brought to the labor board, Bc they almost always lose when they do
Truckers were worried two years ago that their job will be extinct. But the pendulum swung. Ironic
Turnover for truck drivers in fleets with more than $30 million of annual revenue was 92% at the end of 2020, meaning roughly 9 out of every 10 drivers will no longer be working for that company in a year.Nov 12, 2021
I started in this industry on May 2021, my age 56 years old, there is one thing that bothers me the most, lacking to parking, in Union City Georgia my truck was booted and a instant pay and leave $500 at huge empty parking commercial plaza at 11:00 pm, pay or get towed 🤦🏻♂️
Pay $500 and leave immediately, even after I paid I was not allow to take my mandatory 10 hour break, so jump to a ramp at highway entrance and sleep with all that high speed noise 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
Truck stops, some charge for parking, enormous amounts of trucks and bunch of don't take care drivers throwing trash and urine at those truck stop parking lots, diesel pumps with diesel spills, this industry needs to be reinvented.
You live out of a truck and truck stop for weeks but you make 60k a year WOW!!
What a attractive life style.
And work till you cant legally work anymore. Then you get a day off in a truck stop and repeat. Whooppee!
yOU COMPLETELY SKIPPED THE OVERWHELMING DIVORCE RATE!!
I don’t know much about truckers but is that really common amongst truckers?
@@NevermoreVendetta , unfortunately yes. the rate is higher than police officers, and about that of military personel
Don't do it guys these are lies I'm telling you for your own good
Lies
Lies and more lies
Low pay, danger, harassment by shippers, receivers & law enforcement. Poor quality health insurance, lousy hours & never home!
Trucking companies treat drivers like trash! Companies quote rules that aren't in the company rulebook.
Automobile drivers cause a huge, major portion of truck/car accidents!
Total BS job! Get a job at McDonalds, you'll make more money in the long run!
Almost forgot to mention that trucking in the future will be self driving vehicles, drivers will be forced back to flipping burgers. In 5-10 years there will be no need for over the road drivers
This is a job for young, single people. Do 3-4 years and save up your money.
Like going into the military without angst.
Why are you using a German word called " angst"
You can also do local, don't have to be away from your family / loved ones for weeks on end..........
It doesn't work that way.. in the beginning it's a horrible job.. the problem is truck drivers are treated with no respect from the company all the way to the receiving department. There is no respect for truck drivers.
DJZROB ZOMBIE haven't you heard of teenager angst?
Being responsible for such a monstrous machine and having to drive on todays roads full of psychosis has got to rank high in the worst job ever category. You would have to love it or you wouldn't last.
Umm trains? They much more efficient but for some reason the US doesn’t have them
pay more if you want to retain drivers because Covid 19 took with it the majority of them.
There are so many immigrants that drive trucks as it’s perfect profession for new comers.
The government says there is a driver shortage but what the government don't tell you is they are making it harder and harder to become truck driver or just to be a truck driver. The government is the problem.
WHAT ELSE IS NEW LOL
young ppl do not do trucking. it ll mess your health up and those bonuses are scam. Its a very stressful job. Do your research by talking to older truckers.
I was doing otr but elog came in and I went out now I’m home every day best move
Hot take: we've got a freight rail shortage
Their wages don't reflect it. There's a $10,000 sign on bonus, they don't tell you then negatives that cost us money. I'm a truck driver in Toronto, I've been waiting 4 days for work with my current company
That’s first mistake u live in canada, they don’t make any money out there
@@Ty-uy6bf before covid I was making $120,000 a year......
@@Themiddleman416 and?? That’s $49,000k going to taxes!! You’re working for free at that point. Come to America
@@Ty-uy6bf and pay $50,000 for the birth of my kids? 🤣 Common man. America and Canada both have their perks. Truckings all the same out here. Oilfields the same, everything boss lol
@@Themiddleman416 nah canada has a extremely weak economy right now. Seen it first hand, people with 15+ years experience in the medical field couldn’t find work. So they came to US or overseas 🤷🏾♂️ speaks volumes about ur country.
I’ll give a couple years until canada became the best country like it was 10 years ago.
I wanna move there it’s extremely beautiful but it’s a financial reset moving there possible falling into debt
They don’t need truck drivers All they did was turn off the cranes to unload the boats just turn the cranes back on and the problem will be solved.
@@SSsmith24 Oh I see well it’s time to bust up the union and start fresh.. put another union and its place
Plus truckers don't get while they wait for loading so the true hourly wage isn't as attractive.
I get paid from the time I clock in to the time I clock out, twelve hour shifts, five-day schedule with an extra day optional, weekends off for re-set.
Most cheap freigt haulers dont but anybody thats hands on freigt will get paid for any loading or unloading. 60/hr average for gases.
Its not a trucker shortage
A lot of older truck drivers are retiring, but trucking companies won't hire new drivers unless they have at least two years of experience.
look at the spot rates in the trucking industry. If there were a shortage of drivers, shippers would be outbidding each other to get their loads hauled. That's not the case, therefore no shortage.
Another fact to be confronted is, if there is a shortage of 70 or 80 000 drivers, wouldn't it mean that there are 80 000 loads being left on the nation's loading docks and not getting hauled?? Again, not the case, so no shortage.
im class b and cant get anything . class a 3 yrs exp needed home once a month eld b.s. no waiting pay you cover your own insurance all kinds of fees NO PARKING!!! NO PARKING but then no lee way if i go over my on duty times by even minutes to find it you get counted for on duty time to run to a store for food .bathroom essentials it chips into your wage better off flipping fries without the responsibility and paying for cdl skills its not worth it if your lucky and find a nice boss great but theywant to get a new audi and your gonna chip in
Power to the trucker not the brokers!
You become a driver because you like driving and travelling. If somebody interferes with that then why drive!
watching this video in 2023, I almost feel nostalgic at the mention of Yellow.
Reduce regulations, then reduce requirements for hours on the road. Pay increases for OTR work. Local driving allows drivers home time.
I don't know what these people are talking about I'm a company driver I bring home anywhere from 1800 to $2,000 a week after taxes last year I saved up 75k paid off all my debt of 28k and bought a house paid for with cash and both of my vehicles are paid off truck driving has changed my life for the better and my company treats me like gold
you are one of the very few
These/that sign on bonus are lies you get it over time. The trucking companies don't understand what sign on bonus means.
Forget the Bonus give us better pay...
I’m currently studying for my CDL. I want to be apart of the solution.
For young people, this might not seem like a secure job because of self-driving cars.
You still need people inside self driving cars no matter what
There has to be reasons why people don't want to do this job.
People don't want to leave the house ! Period
$$$$$$$$$$. Who wants to spend 22 hours a day in a day all week for $600?
Just offer green card to other country’s truck driver , problem solved
Nah, we stop playing politics with the plandemic and open up this country fully again. There is no real shortage of anything. It's intentional blocking from the people who run this country because they are profiting from the chaos being manufactured.
Watch a whole series of horribly preventable accidents as foreign drivers drive the way did back home in the US and Canada
The industry is to boom and bust. I quit driving 12 years ago because there just wasn't a demand for drivers. I had a class 1 with 2 years highway and mountain experience. No tickets and never damaged a tractor trailer or freight. And always good relations with customers and dispatch/drivers/yard workers. Yet all I was able to get was 5 ton in town deliveries.
Sure there is big demand right now, but how long will that last? Maybe right now I could make more driving then I get working in an office. However my office job pay is going to stay stable for years. Truck driving not so much.
Class 1?
Where are you from??
@@BroAnarchy Class A.
@@BroAnarchy British Columbia, Canada. Hence the mountain driving experience.
Absolutely no Truckers shortage
My brother didn’t go to college but he is making bank after getting his trucking license. And I’m here stuck in university 😂😂🤦🏽♂️
Yeah and does your brother also enjoys taking showers at truck stops? Being away from home weeks at a time? Sleeping in a cabin with generator running during cold nights? Stay in college 😉😉😉
He's doing local haz-mat logistics, goes home every night.
@@jdrancho1864 HES VERY LUCKY THEN
@@markskrusher No luck, just knows his worth.
This segment shows how trucking industry emposter sees their perspective and not from a truck driver perspective. Absolutely nothing they said isn't true, let's go Brandon from former truck driver.
Nothing they said isn’t true?
Isnt this a major red flag for inflation? If driver wages increase that much long term, then inflation is not transitory.
There is no such thing as transitory inflation.
I wanna help...
...... But I'm _already_ a truck driver
Better conditions then better payment!
Ask the DOT what they're goin to do when we're all gone. LOL
Sign on bonus look how it is given to new truck hired
Everyone wants truck drivers but no one wants to do the job.
Nope, don’t even think about it. Trucking sucks. For every imaginable reason.
Not so ! I drove for Walmart for 26 years and retired 2 years ago with a large 401K.
Nice video.
Notice How The Ad Reminded You Of A Get-Rich-Quick-Scheme-Infomercial ??
There Is Good Reason For That
Offering sign-on bonuses is a good way of avoiding raising the pay rate.
@@jdrancho1864 its a donkey with a carrot. You gotta stay there 1yr tp get it and pass every safety check too
Capitalism …. you get what you pay for. Low pay equals few drivers.
Bs,
End the mandate and maybe people will work for some of these companies
But mandates aren't laws so it's a moot point okay Willis
@@kidstlme8230 wow you are a special sort of stupid. The President signed a mandate, governors have signed mandates, and mayor's have signed mandates. businesses follow these mandates and this the mandate has the same exact impact on the supply chain as a law.
So your point is moot
Another product of a broken education system here.
what mandate?
Most truck drivers quit because theirs not enough pay and junk equipment too drive
Trucking companies is built off of free labor loopholes. The money they owe you is the sign on bonus broken down 90 days to 12 months. 1 company truck with a driver who avg 2700 miles a week can generate 8- 13k per week for that company.
YEAH AND THEY WILL PAY YOU 800 FOR IT
Ask for a relocation bonus. If they decline say you’re really interested but want to keep shopping for a position with a relocation bonus. If they’re desperate they will bite, and you’ll likely still be eligible for the 90 day bonus.
If you do not improve working conditions first and secondly pay then just importing cheap labour can help you!
This is just another BS report. $10,000 bonus what a crock, they don’t tell you it’s $1000 a year for 10 years. There are more than enough truck drivers out there what we need is more warehouse workers and more warehouses to get this stuff unloaded in a timely manner.
No more learning from Mom & Dad! you have to go through costly Schools to get it!!
Community colleges offer truck driving courses.
It doesn't matter where you go to school unless it's Ivy League. Go to the cheapest school!
@@henri6595 Does Harvard offer a truck driving degree?
@@jdrancho1864 No one would go to Harvard to be a truck driver.
@@henri6595 You mentioned Ivy League. That confused me.
They are putting self driving trucks on the road as we speak.
and if you think traffic is bad now!! wait until robots get on the road
This is where migrants and refugees can help developed nations. They can work in both blue collar jobs and white collar jobs. They are satisfied with the existing minimum wage rates and they save in that.
So where are all those autonomous trucks that were supposed to leave millions jobless?
My company is working to replace drivers completely lol. Gl! 100k+ a year per driver is too much overhead. Right now we are doing road tests, within 5 years, we are looking to replace professional truckers with regular trained drivers at 40-50k. More than half saved for our clients. Autonomous exists, but it’s a transition that will take up to a decade before wide adoption. Truckers are out of profession in the next decade.
Turned out to be a harder problem than expected. They will get hear one day but I would bet on 2 decades not one.
@@peterisawesomeplease definitely will take at least two decades.. And let’s not forget construction 🚧 you can’t rebuild U.S. infrastructure without trucks!!
Women are free to do whatever they want in the U.S… clearly THEY don’t want to be truckers.
Guess i chose the wrong career
How much does a truck driver make in a year in the USA??? In reality!
If you own your own tractor you could make 150,000$ net and be home everyday 🤷🏽♂️😆
Your first year look forward to $600 70hr a week paychecks. Once you pass the 2 year mark your pay improves. Most new drivers quit within 6 months. The pay is dismal
joe not according to the news story. Are they lying?
@@bngr_bngr Any driver who only makes 600 /wk in this day and age only has himself to blame.
Depends on the Company. Retired from Walmart private fleet 2 years ago with a 6 figure income !
sign on bonus? more like sign on bogus
where the driverless trucks at bro
buying pickup trucks are of no use then?
Hahahaha! You re funny. A pickup truck has a payload at best of 10,000lbs. A semi truck can haul 80,000lbs
I'm uber driver and willing to drive truck. I can buy my own truck. Let me know what's up.
Run away at quickly as you can
I just just dropped a load from tx to reno for $5800, took 3 days, -$1350 in fuel. im on 5 days vacation visiting my mom in California.
@@mrtee3477 more lies
Uber has a load brokerage division. That's what's up.
Can not get new trucks 6 month minimum
i would apply if i on us ... its hard to get job here
The Wall Street journal should have there license to report the news REVOKED!
The trucking rates are at an all time LOW!!
The WSJ is being paid by ATA to report FALSE information.
So the lesson to learn is that loyalty to a company is worthless when they are paying you to quit and work for someone else. Gotta love Capitalism. Also, I work for Knight/Swift. Dunno where they are pulling this 60k a year from.
Fully autonomous hydrogen fuel cell long haul trucks are the answer. Miles and miles of straight line highway driving.
Totally garbage
Truckers is the problem for higher inflation and we need Trudeau to set examples here
Why don't they bring in some truck drivers from outside USA?
Why would a foreigner leave a good job in home country
Like we don't have enough Mexican truck drivers??
@@dustinjohnson7191 The short answer is: "Money!" , not all of the truck drivers in world have enough job and money.
@@jdrancho1864 If you had enough truck drivers (American, Mexican or else) there would never be any shortage of truck drivers, Is this really hard to understand?
@@faridjafari6356 The fewer truck drivers the higher the wages. Is this really so hard to understand?
lets go brandon!
Trains....boom solved it
Trains? So every supermarket and shopping center in the country is located next to a railyard? Otherwise HOW DOES THE MERCHANDISE GET TO THE STORE FROM THE TRAIN? WHAT MANNER OF CONVEYANCE EXISTS TO DO THAT?
B******* $60,000 with swift is working your life off. You don't even get to go home 70 hour weekly shifts. No thanks.
Work for Sysco
no matter how much money u give.. no one want to work truck driver for sure..
enforcing mandates on these truck drivers is what led to these shortages
what mandates?
FJB
No it didnt. This problem has been known for DECADES.
@@jdrancho1864 th-cam.com/video/jsONgLVy3WI/w-d-xo.html
@@sentimentaltech3537 The inception date for a vax mandate is -4 Jan..NEXT YEAR.
No guarantee it's even going to happen.
The only mandate that I see having an effect are the ones Trump put into effect.
Dont go to any ca port to much bs to
Is there a truckers union? If not, should be... Just saying.... The Teamsters maybe? Seems like somebody needs to join a union.
Lies bate you in kick you out broken or dead broke.
I am a trailer truck driver ..how to apply
Heavilay *white*
Virtue signaling
If they gave the cdl class a classes for cheaper or free through an employer that would help. Also please explain to me what happens to those workers once the supply chain is “ unclogged “. Lastly seems like an industry created problem especially when the Tesla trucks came out yesterday or are coming out this week with many companies having them on preorder.
I would get my license and apply if it wasn't for the mandates
I don't know what you and others below you are talking about, but I love them. Raises the barrier to entry and makes my labor more valuable.
plenty of ways around mandates most old timers argue this because they cant run continuously during daylight hours. Plenty of ways to bend Eld mandates legally just takes some common sense.
I want to job but how?
y not self drive?
All BS ! There isn't a truck driver shortage !
Hire from the Philippines. All english speaking and Catholic. High Literacy and Puts safety first.