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The turnover rates are CAUSED by the same drivers who are causing the low pay by running illegal. The carriers have no reason to raise the pay rates, because some BBR will always come along to run it cheap and illegal.
So the guys who are trying to make it in this business running legal never will.
No, Rev!!!Originally Posted by Rev.Vassago
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Trucking companies are already dealing with turnover rates of anywhere from 80%, (which, sadly, is often considered to be low!!) to over 125%; they deal with the "shortage by hiring some new trainee to take the place of an experienced driver. Now, with NAFTA, and our currently "relaxed" immigration standards, if American drivers don't want the job, a driver from Mexico or India will be glad to take the job for them!!
Originally Posted by Useless
Trucking companies are already dealing with turnover rates of anywhere from 80%, (which, sadly, is often considered to be low!!) to over 125%; they deal with the "shortage by hiring some new trainee to take the place of an experienced driver. Now, with NAFTA, and our currently "relaxed" immigration standards, if American drivers don't want the job, a driver from Mexico or India will be glad to take the job for them!!
The turnover rates are CAUSED by the same drivers who are causing the low pay by running illegal. The carriers have no reason to raise the pay rates, because some BBR will always come along to run it cheap and illegal.
So the guys who are trying to make it in this business running legal never will.
You are not going to cure the ills of driver compensation by trying to create a "shortage" due to decreased productivity!!
The fact of the matter is that right now, there is no true "shortage" of drivers if there were, then companies like "Old Dominion", "UPS", and "Yellow" would be struggling to fill their seats as well. Turnover rates are high because too many companies have no problem with replacing experienced drivers with inexperienced drivers. Decreasing productivity is analogous to trying to solve the problem by making it worse!!
If you don't believe this, then I would call upon all drivers to do exactly as you suggest; run completely legal for one full month. As your productivity drops off, and on time pick-up and delivery rates suffer accordingly, your employer will have to do one of three things;
(1.) Decrease the number of dispatched miles that you receive as a driver.
(2.) Replace you with another driver who will get the job done on time.
(3.) Increase your pay and improve your compensation package to make up for your reduction in productivity.
Which option(s) will an employer choose???
Based upon my years of business and entrepreneurial experience, I rather doubt that it will be option #3!! And, as I stated just a few moments ago, if an American driver does not want the job, then their are plenty of foreigners who are being allowed into this country to replace them.
Now, if you want to see driver's pay and compensation increase, then the way to do that is to make a CDL harder to obtain, and more difficult to keep. It also means holding trucking companies legally accountable for their misdeeds, something that is being done only in all too lackadaisical fashion now!!
Now, that will call for some re-regulation of the trucking industry, and that re-regulation has to be structured properly. Many people are opposed to government re-regulation, and for two very different reasons; The upper echelon of the trucking industry does not want to see a return of re-regulation, because they know what it would cost them. Others don't want to see a return to re-regulation, because they are either not aware of the fact that deregulation has effectively picked the pocket of the American driver, or they don't care that it has!!
In any event, there has to be a reigning in of our immigration policies; as long as foreigners are allowed to come take our jobs, while at the same time, we allow our jobs to be shipped overseas, we will not see a resolution to this problem.