{"id":1639,"date":"2014-10-23T15:42:50","date_gmt":"2014-10-23T15:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/truckers-third-most-difficult-job-to-fill-turnover-rises\/"},"modified":"2025-01-10T16:52:10","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T16:52:10","slug":"truckers-third-most-difficult-job-to-fill-turnover-rises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/truckers-third-most-difficult-job-to-fill-turnover-rises\/","title":{"rendered":"Truckers Third Most Difficult Job to Fill; Turnover Rises"},"content":{"rendered":"

Driver turnover in the truckload sector is worsening, according to recently released figures, according to the\u00a0 American Trucking Associations.<\/p>\n

Truckload driver turnover at fleets doing more than $30 million in business annually rose 11 percent in the second quarter of the year from the first quarter to an annual rate of 103%, according to recently released figures from the ATA. This is its highest level since the third quarter of 2012 and four percentage points above a year earlier.<\/p>\n

Turnover at small truckload fleets, those with less than $30 million revenue, surged 16 points from the previous quarter to 94%, the highest level since the third quarter of 2012 and 12 percentage points more than during the same time in 2013.<\/p>\n

ATA Chief Economist Bob Costello said the shortage is \u201cas bad as ever and is expected to get worse in the near term,\u201d as freight volumes continue to grow.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese turnover rates show that the shortage is acute,\u201d he said, \u201cand if the freight economy continues to grow, it will worsen very quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n

The turnover at LTL fleets was much lower, coming in at just 11% annually, one percentage point than in the first quarter. However, there are indications<\/a> even LTLs and private fleets are beginning to feel the impact of the shortage as well.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, as reported by Heavy Duty Trucking,\u00a0 the American Staffing Association\u2019s new Skills Gap Index, which tracks the hardest to fill occupations in the U.S., ranks truck drivers as the third most difficult, behind occupational therapists and physical therapists.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe ASA Skills Gap Index quantifies the severity of the skills shortage in America,\u201d said Richard Wahlquist, ASA president and chief executive officer. \u201cThese new U.S. skills gap data will be used by economists, journalists, government officials, and, most important, staffing firms as they work with clients to develop workforce solutions and devise effective talent acquisition strategies.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Driver turnover in the truckload sector is worsening, according to recently released figures, according to the\u00a0 American Trucking Associations. Truckload driver turnover at fleets doing more than $30 million in…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[134,135,136,137],"class_list":["post-1639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-labour-hr-driver-shortage","tag-driver-skills","tag-driver-turnover","tag-ltl","tag-truckload"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}