...This is not just one industry’s problem; it’s everybody’s problem.
What is odd, however, is that so many people believe the trucker shortage is caused entirely by not enough people choosing the profession of truck driving as a career.
While that is certainly a part of it, it's not our real problem.
In fact, our truck driver shortage is caused primarily by a series of destructive government policies at every level.
In fact, our truck driver shortage is caused primarily by a series of destructive government policies at every level.
- ...Road construction, traffic congestion, and bad weather contribute to make commercial transportation take more time -- and therefore more man-hours -- than it ought....But, over the course of years, when we see that road construction lasts needlessly long because of government incompetence or graft, or that road rebuilds are done on the cheap, so they need to be done over and over again
- ...Trucks could once drive up to a port, collect their containers, and be out in half an hour or so; today, because of utterly unsustainable volume in ports and railyards that have failed to expand as needed, they are overwhelmed. Trucks must now wait half a day or longer to make every container pickup and delivery. This inefficiency causes the system to need two, three, even four times as many drivers as it should, through no fault of their own..."
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