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The US Government needs to let foreign workers come into our country todrive our trucks. If they don't have cdl's from their home country, the government can send them to cdl mills where they can get their license in 2 weeks. If the Mexicans can pick tomatoes for 50 cents a bucket without complaining, I am sure they could drive an over the road truck for minimum wage without complaining. It's obvious that Americans don't want to pick tomatoes or drive trucks over the road.

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Posted: Tue Dec 31, 2002 1:25 pm Post subject: got cdl 7 years ago, have no experience

Did you find anyone to take you under her wings yet, charlie???

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Driver shortage, daaaaaaa OK
Dang I want to know if he found one also. If it works who knows maybe a new buis opportunity. Trucker match making. At the least a new his and her forum.

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Just a shortage of fools
The pay and benifits for OTR don't even start to compare to other jobs that require people to be away from home for extended periods of time,like firefighters or oil platform workers or fisherman
They all get rewarded with premium wages and ample time off
there would be a huge shortage of firefighters if the job was 3 weeks on duty and one 3 day weekend at home.I'm sure they would find some people to do it because they a fasinated with fire trucks.But they would never fill the number of jobs available.
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I think there is only a shortage of good drivers.

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There is in reality a shortage of good companies to driver for. There are millions of qualified drivers. The majority of whom have left the industry due to poor conditions and low pay compared to duties and hours required.

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That, and an overage of sh*tty companies.
If these bigger companies wouldn't order so many trucks each year, there wouldn't be a 'driver shortage'.
I rolled past Star Transport (in Morton IL), yesterday. I'll bet you there was AT LEAST 150 tractors sitting there...all of them are 387 Pete's.
Yeah, there was most likely a few drivers on hometime, but I doubt that many!
Ever run up I-29 to Omaha? There's a HUGE lot south of Council Bluffs IA that I'll bet has at LEAST 1500 trucks sitting in it!
Most of them are Werner trade-ins.
How many other lots are there like that around the country?

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Sad but true. If those companies knew how to take care of drivers, pay them right, get them home etc.. They wouldn't be able to get enough trucks. As it is they keep buying more trucks and keep crying shortage of drivers.... Crazy

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Willing to work for peanuts!
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I hear Star is in the process of turning over there fleet right now. From what I am told, Pete stages the rigs at the Star yard in Morton. As the old rigs make there way back to Morton, they take the old one off the road and take a new one out of the yard you saw. Star dont pay for it till they pull it out that yard.
They run about 1000 power units in total and they keep the fleet very young, around 2 to 3 years old. I know a few guys that run for them. I believe all white 387's.
I have seen that yard there just off 74 east of the 155 split with all them rigs. I occasionally run that way out of Moline.

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Where does the so-called shortage of drivers come from? U.S. government predictions. They calculate based on how many available positions there are now, then project into the future a year or two, then there it is. A figure that seems to never go away.
The turnover in this industry is so high that there will always be a need for new drivers. Fact is that the cost for a company to train a new driver is low, so it is often cheaper to keep training new drivers than to make conditions in the industry better.