This country holds 10 million CDL's, we would have all the truckers they need.
After doing some reading turnover is 95% per year.
We need 3.7 million truckers.
Is it that trucking is just too brutal on the body and we need to come up with more sane solutions instead of having humans subject themselves to downing gallons of caffeine and junkfood only to feel trashed trying to keep up with demand?
I listened to a couple of older men today ramble on about how the younger people are lazy, expect too much and so on. I naturally interjected(being the asshole I am) and pissed them off when I told them you guys that are 80+ had it too damn easy....graduate from highschool, get a job with a lifetime pension and call it a day. Today's kids are fucked with this gig economy and progressive credentialism and employers that don't give a shit or show any loyalty at all. Most of these old guys had unions. I know because both of my parents worked under these conditions and my father was a union leader and both are still getting nice pensions all these years later.
Have we reached a point where we're just gonna have to stop treating humans as machines and expect that they can do the job, but at a saner pace. The old ways of doing things don't work if 95% drop out after the first year.
Most of these talking heads are complaining that people aren't continuing on without questioning a system that is mostly broken and in need of repair.
It would seem that if you allowed truckers to work for say 3 days a week and have the rest of the week off they might be able to use more of those 10 million CDL carriers. Instead truckers can expect their dispatchers to keep grinding them down to the point they quit. And the economist will keep spewing bullshit that we need more when we already have a shit load sitting on the sidelines with a bad taste in their mouths.
After doing some reading turnover is 95% per year.
We need 3.7 million truckers.
Is it that trucking is just too brutal on the body and we need to come up with more sane solutions instead of having humans subject themselves to downing gallons of caffeine and junkfood only to feel trashed trying to keep up with demand?
I listened to a couple of older men today ramble on about how the younger people are lazy, expect too much and so on. I naturally interjected(being the asshole I am) and pissed them off when I told them you guys that are 80+ had it too damn easy....graduate from highschool, get a job with a lifetime pension and call it a day. Today's kids are fucked with this gig economy and progressive credentialism and employers that don't give a shit or show any loyalty at all. Most of these old guys had unions. I know because both of my parents worked under these conditions and my father was a union leader and both are still getting nice pensions all these years later.
Have we reached a point where we're just gonna have to stop treating humans as machines and expect that they can do the job, but at a saner pace. The old ways of doing things don't work if 95% drop out after the first year.
Most of these talking heads are complaining that people aren't continuing on without questioning a system that is mostly broken and in need of repair.
It would seem that if you allowed truckers to work for say 3 days a week and have the rest of the week off they might be able to use more of those 10 million CDL carriers. Instead truckers can expect their dispatchers to keep grinding them down to the point they quit. And the economist will keep spewing bullshit that we need more when we already have a shit load sitting on the sidelines with a bad taste in their mouths.
