TForce Freight Driver, John McKown, joins to debate the motive force scarcity, know-how modifications, and the way Covid has affected the trucking trade.
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People like me who got a passion for driving seldom get an opportunity. I just love these massive trucks🚚🚛🚚🚛.
Trucking in my country is not as attractive as in US and Europe.
NO HAZZARD PAY FOR THESE OTR DRIVERS DURING A WORLD WIDE PENDEMIC FROM ANY MULTI BILLION DOLLAR TRUCKING COMPANY..
they are only paying less than $6 an hour at most companies for 168 hours otr drivers are required to be at there jobs ,, what do u expect no one in there right mind would drive truck for less than min wage which most companies pay today in 2021
We need Sylvester Stallone to drive all the trucks. We need a movie
Companies are undercutting truck drivers. It's not a shortage drivers.
47000 a year not a fair place to start. Somebody take the hint.
This industry blossomed after the second world War to create jobs for returning G.I.'s. Use rail more and use trucks for the last leg.
The bi-annual D.O.T. physicals' weight requirement is 35 BMI, or less. Otherwise you have to do a sleep study test for sleep apnea. If you have any small percentage of apnea you are required to use a CPAP machine when you sleep. With the general population overweight, this safety requirement does turn off a lot of would be driver's. We can't have drivers falling asleep on the road either. All an overweight driver has to do to pass their driver physical is show 1 month of CPAP use on a digital printout on the machine, the rest of the year they don't use it anyway. A less fat population is the answer to our trucker shortage and maybe allow driver work permits for undocumented worker as we do for agriculture. Most immigrants are good workers and trucks and people can be electronically tracked.
3pls are the issue you make the same and get benefits working at CH Robinson. And you get to go home every night.
WRONG "TRUCKER" TO ASK.
"I'VE NEVER BEEN AN OWNER OPERATOR."
YOU INTERVIEWED A FRIGGIN' COMPANY/FLEET DRIVER, THE MOST CONTROLLED AND RESTRICTED DRIVER THERE IS, TO SPEAK ON THE STATE OF THE INDUSTRY?
HE'S AT THE BOTTOM OF THE DRIVER TOTEM POLE!
🗣WRONG MOVE, @MSNBC!
🗣NO TRUCKER SHORTAGE.
🗣DURING PANDEMIC LOCKDOWN… HOURS OF SERVICE RULES WERE SUSPENDED–WE RAN WITHOUT RESTRICTIONS ON OUR TIME LEAVING IT UP TO US TO STOP WHEN WE NEEDED.
🗣MILES PER GALLON IS VERY DEPENDENT UPON THE AMOUNT OF WEIGHT YOU'RE CARRYING, SPEED YOU'RE DRIVING, MOUNTAINS (TERRAIN), STOP AND GO TRAFFIC, AGE OF ENGINE ON THE TRUCK, ETC.
MOST OWNER OPERATORS, THE BRUNT OF THE TRUCKERS ON THE ROAD, DRIVE TRUCKS THAT ARE 6 YEARS OR OLDER, NOT BRAND NEW.
Now like the left's open border trucking lowest paid job in usa ever is now politicized. The public doesnt realize some truckers only make 50 dollars or less a week long haul driving most illegal aliens in 21 can make more money on welfare or any min wage job verse a 50 dollar a week or less as a otr truck driver and yes that's the avg reality pay!!
Truck drivers are away from home for weeks at a time, sleeping in a truck every night, fighting the traffic everyday, treated like villains by the police, for $1,000 a week. The industry has made it very easy to get into trucking. There are lots of free schools. The only people that might be able to stay with it are people with very strong marriages. You're not going to find a spouse driving a truck 7 days a week. A weak relationship is not going to last long driving a truck 7 days a week. Children are not going to be close to the parent that's gone 7 days a week. So, nobody's going to do this job for $1,000 a week for very long.
There is no trucker shortage this time last year was this a subject it is all bs was cargo ships out in the ocean and people are getting out of it.this guy full of bs on what truckers income is at first .there is a turnover issue not a shortage and most young people do not want the lifestyle get it brainwashed people you are better off working elsewhere
There is no truck driver shortage we are straight up. Full of poop
How can you watch this garbage
And what effect will rising diesel prices have on truckers?
Wages! Class A Hazmat driver since 2008…Driver salaries have been stagnant for years. Since we are so essential to America.
Hey, liberals who think they know best.
Just keep screwing with a very needed worker that doesn't or didn't vote for your hero (Biden).
And when you push us to be fired for not getting a vaccine that isn't working (if it was, you wouldn't need masks, or busters) – just see what happens in a day, or he'll- even a week without fuel, goods like groceries at Walmart (RX's) etc, you will see epic an economy disaster unfold quickly. With empty shelves, no fuel to run police cars, semi trucks, fire engines, etc. There will looting, riots etc within a weeks time…. Hey, to the stupid NY governor who thinks she can fire and dismiss the doctors and nurses with her national hair troops. Try doing the same thing nation wide when the 100 employee mandate kicks in….
It won't end well for anyone.
Theyve been delivering goods that are overpriced while the wage is barely enough for them to survive in todays economy.
I am a trucker and drove from Ohio to Missouri today and saw many, many poor truckers that have to take their ten hour break on ramps. States that ban ramp parking are cold hearted. I feel so bad for hard working truckers that cannot find parking. And they wonder how wrecks happen. I would not find any parking if I did not get up at two am. People want to get rich quick but have not figured out truckers work non-stop, cannot get to a haircut, grocery store, other services. Actually the federal government could rake in a lot of money by fining states for giving truckers a hard time.
U don’t pay them enough.
I started driving at 32 last year. I lasted five months once I realized the transportation industry is trash. I also figured if I'm going to work 70 + hours in a truck, I may as well do it with a regular job earning time and a half and double time.
I heard truckers make great money. I thought my son should get into at 21 yrs old for a few reasons. 1. Of course money. 2. To help America get stuff on shelves. I thought it be Patriotic. I’m retire and was UPS driver. I thought maybe I should help drive these big boys. To help. 3. I thought it’s a hood way to see America free. But I’m not sure. Doing my homework. It’s not worth it. The pay not there and this administration keeps making things worse on their own. Why come out of retirement to help ppl that are hurting their own ppl. I won’t get vax either bc that’s how much I hate Biden. Anything to make him unhappy makes me happy. F* Joe Biden and his administration. Worse president and administration
Freight is to cheap. Also problem with trucking..if there's good pay the benifits are bad..if the benifits are good the pay is bad..an yes you drivers thinking 1200 a week for a 70 hr week..idc home daily! Under 1500 is garbage an it should be 2k.
Mo money!
the claim of the industry being 80000 drivers short is bs. there are close to half a million people with valid cdl's who arnt driving. ask those people why they arnt trucking.
And you got more idiots on the road than trucks drivers
They just need to go on national strike and block the highways. Heck it would create economic chaos. I am willing to settle with nothing in hopes of reform
Get rid of the oppressive government regulations, we don't need cab cameras aimed at our faces, truckers get tired of the irresponsible driving behavior that occurs non-stop around a truck which makes driving not fun at all, truck driving profession is in the top five skill sets with the highest divorce rate, The pay is not that great I don't blame people for leaving the trucking industry, parking shortages especially in California or densely populated areas you want the trucks to deliver, let the truck drivers park in and around industrialized areas where they pick up and deliver instead of ticketing them and chasing them away. One more note truck drivers would have a tough time without all of the other people that exist to make trucking industry possible not just the driver the farmers and ranchers feed everybody, I do not believe the government has the right to determine what profession is non-essential, All of the trades and businesses are essential Right on down to the "mom and pop" bbq grill.
Neoliberalism is the problem.
9mpg?? No way!! I get that when I’m bob tail. 7.5 loaded. All lies.
California….55 no supply
actually there is a shortage of good pay. everything is expensive and load payments are trash 🗑
Make the CEO’s of those companies drive the trucks since they are such valuable super humans.
The food prices are going up because of mandates and tyranny
All bs
Ok Boomer
You guys did this to yourself!!! Thanks main stream media.
After you graduate from TDS: most employers 93%+. they'll need at least 6 month or more of the tractor/trailer experience. Good luck to all👍👧
People saying trucking should pay more… truth is it is and it will continue to pay more. Supply and demand.
14-16 hour workday and no overtime pay! Union driver's make decent money, but not many of them left. There have been more than 600 union-trucking company bankruptcies and closings since the Motor Carrier Act of 1980, eliminating more than 500,000 Teamsters from the freight industry. Today the Teamsters have fewer than 70,000 Teamsters in the freight sector, mostly at financially ailing long-haul LTL carriers YRC Corp
Sleep apnea tests are preventing some good truck drivers from working who can sleep very well without a hot device laying on their chests, a sensor clamped to their fingers and a tube shoved up their nose
The driver shortage is a myth. It’s a retention problem and always has been.
So with America needing more truck drivers, the DMV decided in February to make it harder to obtain a CDL by requiring applicants to complete 15 hours of official behind the wheel training. Smh
Im not paying a Union to represent me…My Skills Represent me…
Why are there truck drivers? Cuz that's all a trucker knows…..
LIES
The market is over saturated.
It allows trucking companies to keep wages low.
Don't buy this propaganda.