Curious to what everyone’s thoughts are.

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{"text":"Does anyone else feel like there isn’t really a pressing matter of driver shortages. That it’s just a ploy to give power of the industry back to the bigger companies or a excuse for the rising prices for consumers? ","videos":"[]","link":"{}","pics":"[]","canComment":true}

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{"replyTo":"","text":"Actually the driver shortage is not right now. It’s in the future. There are not that many young people going into trucking. \n\nThere are several reasons but the biggest reason in my opinion is when the young ones do try their luck they get low pay from the megas and crap for training. With all these regulations getting piled onto us truck drivers they just making it harder to keep new people trucking. ","replyToPid":0}

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625878 发表于 2019-09-11 01:59:40 Yea it is just like other things we keep hearing,\n

","text":"In all honesty trying to look even bigger picture to just giving power back to the mega companies this is a good way to ease the regular non cdl population to the idea of autonomous semis. Say there’s a shortage of drivers causing cost to go up people might be more accepting of almost eliminating shipping cost ","replyToPid":205695}

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625878 发表于 2019-09-11 01:47:23 There is no driver shortage at all!!!!\n\nThis is a plot to get arses in the mega carriers seats for a very low to starvation rate.\n\nIf there were a driver shortage, there wouldn’t be a single truck sitting in any truck stop.

","text":"Which is my thinking everytime I hear people talk about driver shortages. Just a bunch of people that don’t know anything about the industry rinsing and repeating the same phrase. ","replyToPid":205671}

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{"replyTo":"","text":"If, there were a driver shortage freight rates would skyrocket!!  Bingo","replyToPid":0}

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542330 发表于 2019-09-11 02:25:07 Actually the driver shortage is not right now. It’s in the future. There are not that many young people going into trucking. \n\nThere are several reasons but the biggest reason in my opinion is when the young ones do try their luck they get low pay from the megas and crap for training. With all these regulations getting piled onto us truck drivers they just making it harder to keep new people trucking.

","text":"Also I’d like to add from my personal experience the current drivers within the industry don’t make the entry process any easier not offering help etc especially in the easier fields like dryvan. ","replyToPid":205718}

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{"replyTo":"","text":"OOIDA wrote an article a while back regarding the lie about driver shortage.","replyToPid":0}

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625878 发表于 2019-09-11 01:59:40 Yea it is just like other things we keep hearing,\n

","text":"True but a lot of the other things we hear aren’t as mainstream as driver shortages ","replyToPid":205695}

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{"replyTo":"","text":"Pfft! There’s no shortage. You have experienced drivers with spotty records that why there are new drivers every week going to companies looking to keep trucks moving. The shortage is experienced drivers.","replyToPid":0}

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{"replyTo":"","text":"the real problem is,  noone gives a cent to us out here feeding, supplying the general population. since the 90s we the cdl are the bottom of the barrel,  yet we have the highest demand for those that dont give any f__ks... I love being a driver, I'm proud of being one, yet at the same time, the supply and demand  ratio is crap....","replyToPid":0}

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{"replyTo":"","text":"Not a driver shortage, just crap companies (mostly mega carriers) having a driver retention problem.  ","replyToPid":0}

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{"replyTo":"","text":"I agree with you. ","replyToPid":0}

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{"replyTo":"","text":"if there was a true driver shortage, wouldnt the existing wages/rates for drivers currently present go up?\n\nthere is no more real charm to trucking like it used to be\n\ntoo many half baked drivers being on road\n\ntoo many schools churning out drivers only mission to make money and not to really teach them\n\ntoo many companies cheating/lying/low balling new drivers\n\ntoo many small companies or individuals taking loads at cheaper rates compared to bigger companies, thus dropping the rates overall, if only truckers could come together with a body which looks after us, which sets some foundations/regulations/guidelines etc for us, things might get better...","replyToPid":0}