{"id":1823,"date":"2015-10-09T19:35:16","date_gmt":"2015-10-09T19:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/ata-qualified-truck-driver-shortage-worsening\/"},"modified":"2025-01-10T16:51:29","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T16:51:29","slug":"ata-qualified-truck-driver-shortage-worsening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/ata-qualified-truck-driver-shortage-worsening\/","title":{"rendered":"ATA: Qualified Truck Driver Shortage Worsening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The shortage of truck drivers in the U.S. has grown to nearly 48,000 and could expand further due to industry growth and a retiring workforce, according to analysis by the American Trucking Associations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ability to find enough qualified drivers is one of our industry\u2019s biggest challenges,\u201d said ATA President and CEO Bill Graves. \u201cThis latest report plainly lays out the problem \u2013 as well as some possible solutions \u2013 to the driver shortage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The report, ATA\u2019s fourth major analysis since 2005, shows that by the end of 2015, the driver shortage will reach nearly 48,000. If current trends hold, the shortage may balloon to almost 175,000 by 2024.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn important thing we learned in this analysis is that this isn\u2019t strictly a numbers problem, it is a quality problem too,\u201d ATA Chief Economist Bob Costello said. \u201cFleets consistently report receiving applications for open positions, but that many of those candidates do not meet the criteria to be hired. According our research, 88% of carriers said most applicants are not qualified.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other key findings of the report:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Over the next decade, trucking will need to hire 890,000 new drivers, or an average of 89,000 per year.<\/li>\n<li>Roughly half, 45%, of demand for drivers comes from the need to replace retiring drivers; industry growth is the second leading driver of new hiring, accounting for 33% of the need.<\/li>\n<li>ATA\u2019s analysis does not factor in the impact of federal regulations \u2013 like electronic logging \u2013 on the shortage.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cOur work shows the great and growing need for drivers,\u201d Costello said, \u201cbut we also highlight several solutions including increasing driver pay, getting drivers more time at home, as well as improving the image of the driver and their treatment by all companies in the supply chain. Make no mistake, the driver shortage is a challenge, but it is not an insurmountable one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For a copy of ATA\u2019s Driver Shortage Analysis paper, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trucking.org\/ATA%20Docs\/News%20and%20Information\/Reports%20Trends%20and%20Statistics\/10%206%2015%20ATAs%20Driver%20Shortage%20Report%202015.pdf\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The shortage of truck drivers in the U.S. has grown to nearly 48,000 and could expand further due to industry growth and a retiring workforce, according to analysis by the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277,"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":[30,270,93,77,206],"class_list":["post-1823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-labour-hr-driver-shortage","tag-capacity","tag-demographics","tag-driver-pay","tag-driver-shortage","tag-recruitment"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1823","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=1823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}