A new way to run up fuel costs.

[Orangeslice13]

Lack of truck drivers could lead to fuel shortage this summer

so we shut down the economy. There need for fuel slumps because everyone stays home. The drivers find something else to do. We open the economy back up and we have nobody to bring the fuel to the pumps.
All going according to plan.

 

[VolStrom]

I thought this was going to be about the colonial pipeline being shut down due to the hack from probably Russia or China. Most likely it is from Russia Russia Russia.

 

[MG1968]

I miss the money I made driving a truck, but I don’t miss anything else about driving a truck.

 

[K-town Vol Fan]

I guess when they were laid off after everything shut down they decided its pretty nice working from home.

 

[RavinDave]

I guess when they were laid off after everything shut down they decided its pretty nice working from home.

Yeah, kinda hard to drive a truck while working from home.

 

[hog88]

All of the articles I’ve seen regarding the driver shortage ignores the idiotic physical requirements and the cost/hassle of getting and maintaining a haz-mat endorsement.

 

[Boca Vol]

I miss the money I made driving a truck, but I don’t miss anything else about driving a truck.

D.O.T. you just like to pick on truckers!

 

[NurseGoodVol]

D.O.T. you just like to pick on truckers!

And they are p****** about it too. You have to be a sadist to join enforcement DOT... state law.

 

[MG1968]

D.O.T. you just like to pick on truckers!

Worse, I work for Walmart now.

 

[Orangeslice13]

I nearly watched a girl die when she drove her bug up under the trailer I was pulling with paving rigs on it on I 75. She literally just turned under the trailer on the long straight away just before dalton ga

26 years ago

 

[BigOrangeTrain]

Those shutdowns did wonders didn’t they?

 

[LouderVol]

Those shutdowns did wonders didn’t they?

The defenders will say there was no way they could have known things would go like this. The rest of us will wonder what else could have happened.

 

[NurseGoodVol]

I nearly watched a girl die when she drove her bug up under the trailer I was pulling with paving rigs on it on I 75. She literally just turned under the trailer on the long straight away just before dalton ga

26 years ago

Scary stuff. I stay away from oversized loads and any swift trucks. Seen way too many fatalities with truckers.

 

[hog88]

Scary stuff. I stay away from oversized loads and any swift trucks. Seen way too many fatalities with truckers.

Driving around trucks should be mandatory training to get a license.

 

[StarRaider]

(posted for the tree fitty time this week for those SR fans)

 

[0nelilreb]

Driving around trucks should be mandatory training to get a license.

She has been taught well

 

[Rasputin_Vol]

Those shutdowns did wonders didn’t they?

But if we could save one life...

 

[Orangeburst]

Texas trucking company offers highest-paid drivers $14K per week amid recruiting effort | Fox Business

 

[LouderVol]

Texas trucking company offers highest-paid drivers $14K per week amid recruiting effort | Fox Business

That seems sustainable.

 

[Orangeburst]

That seems sustainable.

Give me a minute..I am in the middle of applying for my CDL.

 

[LouderVol]

Give me a minute..I am in the middle of applying for my CDL.

I am wondering what those routes entail, how many are offered. I am guessing these are the diaper wearing, caffeine main lining, truckers, and it's only offered a couple times a year.

Imagine making over half a million a year as a truck driver.

Of course you would have to pay Joe's extra taxes. I doubt they were thinking they would be hitting truck drivers. And really throws their defense of it wont be hitting the average American.

 

[Orangeburst]

I am wondering what those routes entail, how many are offered. I am guessing these are the diaper wearing, caffeine main lining, truckers, and it's only offered a couple times a year.

Imagine making over half a million a year as a truck driver.

Of course you would have to pay Joe's extra taxes. I doubt they were thinking they would be hitting truck drivers. And really throws their defense of it wont be hitting the average American.

"As previously reported by FOX Business, the president and CEO of the American Trucking Associations said that the industry will need to recruit more than 1 million drivers just to keep up with current economic demand.

Around one-quarter of the nation’s truck capacity has been removed from the road due to a lack of qualified drivers."

Dang crisis going on. Our business has been impacted already as logistics issues are becoming huge. If one thing this nation has been successful at for decades in war and peace is logistics. Even that seems to be crumbling and these wage pressures are going to be ugly on the market inflation in addition to all the other pressures.

 

[TNVOLNAVY]

No problem. Those little brown people that Slo Jo & Ho are importing will be your new truck drivers. Don’t believe me? Go to any local truck stop.

 

[SpaceCoastVol]

Texas trucking company offers highest-paid drivers $14K per week amid recruiting effort | Fox Business

To hell with this flying thingy... Where do I sign? A 6 month contract ought to do it...

 

[MG1968]

Texas trucking company offers highest-paid drivers $14K per week amid recruiting effort | Fox Business

Something tells me that hours of service and keeping proper logs aren’t going to be high on their priorities list.