Trucking is short 80,000 drivers, here’s why?
ATA’s latest snapshot of the truck driver shortage shows that if current trends persist, over the next decade, the driver shortage could hit 160,000.
When the pandemic hit the U.S. in March 2020, truck driving schools and state commercial licensing agencies reported they trained and awarded CDLs to significantly fewer drivers last year than they did in a normal year, #training Some were down 60%, some were down 40%, but it’s somewhere in that area, and that was a hole we sort of got dug into because of #Covid we weren’t able to train enough drivers last two years.
The truck driver training schools say the average age is 35 to get trained. That pushes our entire age up.
For-hire truckload will be the lowest age bracket, but they are still in the high 40s, LTL and private fleets are over 50 years old, which means we have a lot of retirements in this industry. That’s a big problem.
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