Tagged: DriverShortage

Milk sector needs more drivers

Milk Sector Also Needs More Drivers

Coming soon to an industry near you (or already here): a truck-driver shortage. There’s currently a nationwide deficit of both long-haul and short-run truck drivers, and it will impact the transit of bulk milk, feed…

Even without a pandemic, U.S. trucking was looking at a tough time this year. When the year began, the industry was coming off a challenging 2019, when overcapacity and weak pricing forced at least 795 trucking companies to close. It’s important to note that a great many small carriers close every year. That’s because a disproportionate number of them are lightly funded, one-person operations. Still, closings last year were inordinately high, according to industry studies.

Support Grows For Younger Drivers

A group of bipartisan legislators reintroduced the DRIVE-Safe Act to address the growing shortage of professional truck drivers in the U.S. by allowing certified commercial truck driver’s who are under 21 to cross state lines…

Trucks zooming on highway

Trucker Shortage Driving Up Prices

America’s trucker shortage is about to hit consumers right where it hurts: in the kitty litter. McDonald’s Corp. long-time distributor Martin-Brower Co. is raising delivery fees, imperiling low menu prices, and Procter and Gamble Co…

Truck on Road Turn

Demographics Hurting Trucking

Trucks hauled more than 70 percent of freight tonnage in the U.S. last year, generating $676 billion in revenues, according to the American Trucking Associations (ATA). But the industry is grappling with a growing problem…

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