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  • Trucking crisis has U.S. looking for more drivers abroad

    https://www.pressherald.com/2021/08/...rivers-abroad/


    As a result, demand for Visa Solutions’ services from the trucking industry has more than doubled since before the pandemic, and “this is 100 percent because of the driver shortage,” he said.

    Bringing in more foreign workers faces a number of hurdles including visa limits and complicated immigration rules, but trucking advocates see an opening now to overcome some of those obstacles after the Biden administration created a task force to address the supply chain problems impeding the economic recovery.

    In July, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, Labor Secretary Marty Walsh, and Meera Joshi, deputy administrator of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, held a roundtable meeting with the trucking industry to discuss efforts to improve driver retention and reduce turnover. Among the measures the industry is seeking is lowering the minimum age to 18 from 21 for interstate drivers and adding trucking to the list of industries that can bypass some of the Department of Labor’s immigration certification process.
    Companies have offered higher wages, signing bonuses and increased benefits. So far, their efforts haven’t done enough to attract domestic workers to an industry with grueling hours, a difficult life-work balance and an entrenched boom-bust cycle.

    This is not the way a supposed union supporting administration would or should handle this.
    This is outright bullshit.

    Since the industry has a shortage...labor leaders from years ago would have totally opposed this.
    This is when wages and working conditions and benefits should be way way way way way up.

    If the current attracting means are not working....as the bonuses are NOT......

    Then I would suggest....not leaving it BE a grueling job.

    $100,000/ year at no more than 40 hours per week plus great pensions and benefits and health insurance and days off....you know...stuff unions used to actually give.


    But instead....all the union leaders probably think this is great for labor........and we KNOW it isn't.
    Raise the pay like I put....and you will have more safer and happier American drivers.

    They use supply and demand against us when they choose.
    And this should be condemned for the rest of the Biden term.

    At least make it easy to organize......but I guess we are just here to be used for our numbers and for showcasing and for our unions mouth and money.
    Bad deal for the Teamsters.
    Bad deal for American Labor.
    Make them pay.

    They increased the nonunion workforce and destroyed us with deregulation because companies and the market wanted it.
    This should be stopped and screamed against.
    They showed no mercy and today's leaders will sit there massaging Biden's back as they screw us like this.

  • #2
    Re: Trucking crisis has U.S. looking for more drivers abroad

    Pay that $100k/year for 40 HR week.....and you will have more drivers than you need within a year.....and no need for imported labor.

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    • #3
      Re: Trucking crisis has U.S. looking for more drivers abroad

      We had a driver that quit last week and went back to Africa (his home)

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      • #4
        Re: Trucking crisis has U.S. looking for more drivers abroad

        There is no shortage of truck drivers, there is a shortage of good paying truck driver jobs.. Import people from third world countries and they will think they got the American "Golden" pot.. The American dream..

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        • #5
          Re: Trucking crisis has U.S. looking for more drivers abroad

          Those who conceived and wrote this story are outright liars and they know it.
          NOBODY is retiring due to fears of Covid.
          They are all retiring because the market, from customers to employers refuse to pay for what they expect.
          Covid has absolutely nothing to do with it.
          A totally political scam story.
          All lies.

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