Truck Driver Turnover Hits 127%
 

This is disturbing news. The turnover rate has always been high due to the demanding nature of the job, but the softer freight conditions are making it worse this quarter.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (June 22, 2007)— The driver turnover rate for large truckload and less-than-truckload carriers increased during the first quarter of 2007, marking their highest turnover rates since the end of 2005.

ATA, which began collecting driver turnover statistics in 1995, reported that turnover for large truckload carriers was at a 127 percent annualized rate for the first three months of the year. This figure was 6 percentage points higher than during the last three months of 2006.

“The softer freight demand contributed to the increase in large TL driver turnover,” ATA Chief Economist Bob Costello, said. “Nearly 80 percent of the large carriers in our sample saw their number of employee drivers fall during the period. In some cases, the drivers that left were not replaced, due to soft and choppy freight levels.”

I hope you are talking about drivers quiting their jobs....hate to think what 127% of trucks on their side. :lol: :lol:

I was thinking the same thing. :P :lol:

I was referring to Truck Driver turnovers (as in employment turnover), not the actual truck in a roll over.

The future employment conditions for truck drivers does not look pretty either.

Have you heard about the Security and Prosperity Partnership Of North America (SPP) plan?

Quietly but systematically, the Bush Administration is preparing the huge NAFTA Super Highway, four football-fields-wide, through the heart of the U.S. along Interstate 35, from the heart of Mexico, through Laredo, to Kansas City, and on to the Canadian border north of Duluth, Minn.

Once complete, the new road will allow huge numbers of containers from Asia to enter the United States through the Mexican port of Lazaro Cardenas, bypassing the USA western ports (expensive) in the process. The Mexican trucks (inexpensive), without the involvement of the Teamsters Union, will drive on what will be the nation’s most modern highway straight into the heart of America. The Mexican trucks will cross the borders in FAST lanes, checked only electronically by the new “SENTRI” system. The first customs stop will be a Mexican customs office in Kansas City, manned with Mexicans (not Americans) using their new Smart Port complex. This Kansas City facility is being built for Mexico at a cost of $3 million to the U.S. taxpayers in Kansas City.

Here is a link to the feel-good presentation by the US Government's position on the SPP. http://www.spp.gov/index.asp

And here is a link to a more realistic explanation of what is going on. http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/ar...TICLE_ID=50618

But there is a growing unrest toward this Mexico/USA/Canada merger. Here is the link. http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/ar...TICLE_ID=50981

Here are some tips to communicate with future truck drivers in the USA:
Como van las cosas?
Muy bien, gracias. Estoy bien.
Y usted?
Todo esta bien. Me gusta mucho a los Estados Unidos.
Hasta mas tarde.
Hasta la vista.

Oh NO!! THE MEXICANS ARE COMING...THE MEXICANS ARE COMING!!!!

HOLY $HIT, THEIR HERE, THEIR HERE!!!! :lol: :lol:

Let them build their highway. All it will take is one truck with explosives coming over the boarder to make it a waste of money. And it doesn't even have to go off. :twisted:

Nothing else will change except more drivers will put up with yet another excuse to accept a lower wage.

As far as bush is concern, 2008 is just around the corner, and he is doing everything he can to ruin any chance for his party to put one of their own in the whitehouse. But thanks to Bush for making it harder to get a hazmat. I'm pretty secure in the knowledge that the mexicans, or anyone else from other countries, will find a hard time taking my job.

Bush will be done in 2008. Truck driving will be around for longer than that. And I like mexican women. :wink:

The Mexicans are coming,for real????NAFTA super highway,you're joking right???
Wow,where do you get this hot info??

Interestingly enough, I know a lot of drivers where I'm at now who have been there for years, ranging from 9 to 20, with an average in the middle somewhere. I've only run into one pissing and moaning disgruntled bellyacher who was itching to bail out and go somewhere else. I don't know what their turnover rate is, but I bet it's well below average for the industry.

The interesting part is that in the three months I've been here, there has been about 75% turnover in management. Every week they announce the teary goodbye of some other manager I don't really know. They haven't had a night dispatcher in over a month (glad I don't run after day dispatch closes!) I have the impression that things at the corporate level are a real fuster cluck since I've been here.

I find it worrisome.

Silvan...you lost me :?: :!: :?

Here's an additional link.

I think what he was trying to say is, that at the place he works now ther are a lot of drivers who have been at the same company for more than 10 years. At the place I work we have 4 drivers. My boss who drove his own truck since 1978. The second has been here since 1994. I have been here since 1996. and the fourth has been here for 3 years as his truck was an addition to the fleet. There have to be alot of drivers who have had the same job for the same company for as many years as me. Not everybody changes jobs every year to get the turnover % that high is what he is getting at.