Biden's America: Shipping companies struggle to find truck drivers

[Counselor706]

Shipping companies across the nation on Monday are reportedly struggling to find truck drivers to ease port backlogs on the east and west coasts.

Old Dominion Freight Line will reportedly hire any driver with or without experience, KHQ NBC reported Sunday. The need is so great, Old Dominion held a job fair Saturday to “hire 10 line drivers who can haul several trailers across the state” while offering to train anyone who wishes to earn a C.D.L. license.

Michael Deneen with Old Dominion told KHQ the pandemic has made finding truck drivers more difficult due to the unemployment checks that drivers may be receiving from Democrat-controlled states. Deneen also thinks the labor shortage will carry over and impact the 2021 holiday season and beyond.

“Christmas is going to be, this year is going to be impacted greatly by not just trucking but through the whole logistic network is a little bit out of whack,” Deneen said. “So buy early, we’re going to work ourselves out of it but it’s going to be a couple of years of going through this new normal right now.”

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[LukSkyFokker]

If truck drivers are making more on unemployment than driving, they either are bad at it or their employer sucks. This has nothing to do with Biden or the pandemic.

 

[pecksniff]

Before too long, truck drivers will be obsolete -- replaced by self-driving trucks.

 

[ShyBiGuy954]

Short TicTok vid

https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_r0txan3l1E1yk2dy1.mp4

"Big Green Cranes" = Shipping container cranes

 

[Cubantripod]

If truck drivers are making more on unemployment than driving, they either are bad at it or their employer sucks. This has nothing to do with Biden or the pandemic.

He provided a source. You don't get to dismiss it simply because you don't want it to true. You can provide your own cite backing up your claim. That's how debates work.

 

[Lazaran]

He provided a source. You don't get to dismiss it simply because you don't want it to true. You can provide your own cite backing up your claim. That's how debates work.

God damn you're an ignorant CUbaNTripod.

The POS "with" Old Dominion was obviously speculating with his hyperbolic statement.

I can do that too.

"The lack of truck drivers is due to the fact that many of them WERE obese republican anti-vaxxers who died of Covid."

How does that work for you???

*chuckles*

 

[LukSkyFokker]

He provided a source. You don't get to dismiss it simply because you don't want it to true. You can provide your own cite backing up your claim. That's how debates work.

One truck driver from one company said one thing reported by a garbage site. It's not my fault your critical thinking mechanism is on the fritz again.

Also, my post makes more sense than the truck driver.

 

[pecksniff]

Shipping is potentially carbon-neutral.

 

[Paul_Chance]

It is true. If fact, the shortage of truck drivers has been ongoing for a decade plus. Additionally, it's a global problem (See Here).

Right now, the primary reason is, post-pandemic lockdowns the demand for consumer goods has increased. When it comes to ports and transport companies, they're working at 100% capacity with about 120% demand.

Offering "free training" is actually the standard in the industry. Contrary to what we might think, the trucking industry is heavily regulated and the paper part of the commercial drivers license is what stops many people for successfully entering the workforce.

Most truck driving schools, whether affiliated with a specific shipper or independent start with the rules/regulations - if you can pass that, they can teach you to drive (that's actually the easy part). Just do a quick web search on truck driver jobs and you'll see all the "we train" ads, which have been in place for a long time.

The average truck driver makes 45K a year. I doubt unemployment has much of an impact there.

 

[YDB95]

Here as everywhere, the real problem isn't a labor shortage, it's a shortage of companies that are willing to pay a rate people are willing to accept. Funny how those who live and die by the miracle of the market turn on it so fast when the little guy and gal have some leverage for a change!

 

[Lazaran]

It is true. .

Yeah, it's true: Counselor706 and The CUbaNTripod are fucking idiots.

*emphatic nod*

 

[Cubantripod]

One truck driver from one company said one thing reported by a garbage site. It's not my fault your critical thinking mechanism is on the fritz again.

Also, my post makes more sense than the truck driver.

When you can provide a link, you might have a point. Until then it a conclusory statement with nothing to back it up. Like everything else you post. Your assertion that its a garbage cite is just another one of the logical fallacies. The only thing you're good at.

 

[pecksniff]

Your assertion that its a garbage cite is just another one of the logical fallacies.

The most important piece of information in any message is the name of the messenger.

 

[CornusKousa]

If truck drivers are making more on unemployment than driving, they either are bad at it or their employer sucks. This has nothing to do with Biden or the pandemic.

LOL... take the fuckin' welfare away, people go back to work.

So yea it is Biden, the (D)'s and their abuse of the economy.

 

[pecksniff]

LOL... take the fuckin' welfare away, people go back to work.

That does not necessarily make it a good idea.

 

[Cubantripod]

The most important piece of information in any message is the name of the messenger.

Logical fallacy. You're looking for reasons to remain in your bubble.

 

[Cubantripod]

That does not necessarily make it a good idea.

Actually it is. You need people producing and making stuff. Otherwise you will experience inflation and shortages.

 

[pecksniff]

Actually it is. You need people producing and making stuff. Otherwise you will experience inflation and shortages.

In most cases, it is better X should be drawing welfare than asking, "You want fries with that?"

Someone will always be producing stuff -- underproduction has not been an economic problem since the 19th Century.

 

[CornusKousa]

That does not necessarily make it a good idea.

The fact is however paying people to not be productive is a bad idea with no purpose other than economic destruction.

In most cases, it is better X should be drawing welfare than asking, "You want fries with that?"

Someone will always be producing stuff -- underproduction has not been an economic problem since the 19th Century.

Why is it better to pay people to not be productive??

 

[LukSkyFokker]

For the econ illiterate Dumb-Dumbs.

https://www.newsweek.com/robert-reich-american-workers-strike-low-wage-jobs-employment-1637543

 

[Cubantripod]

For the econ illiterate Dumb-Dumbs.

https://www.newsweek.com/robert-reich-american-workers-strike-low-wage-jobs-employment-1637543

Just like people can't afford to lose their jobs over vaccines, they can't afford to "strike" over wages. If you're as smart as you want us to believe, you would understand that.

 

[pecksniff]

Why is it better to pay people to not be productive??

Production is not always a good thing. I'd rather see anybody drawing welfare than mining coal -- better the coal should be left in the ground than burnt.

 

[LukSkyFokker]

Just like people can't afford to lose their jobs over vaccines, they can't afford to "strike" over wages. If you're as smart as you want us to believe, you would understand that.

Dafuq are you talking about.

 

[Cubantripod]

Dafuq are you talking about.

Playing dumb now?

 

[pecksniff]

Just like people can't afford to lose their jobs over vaccines, they can't afford to "strike" over wages.

That is the usual reason to strike. And if you look at the history of organized labor, there is no reason at all to think it was ever a bad idea.