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Higher Pay for the Long Haul
Part of the truck driver turnover problem is getting “paid by the mile but regulated by the hour.”
April 20, 2021
By Pat Pape
This is the second of a two-part NACS Daily series on the truck driver shortage in the U.S.
ALEXANDRIA, Va. The biggest obstacle to attracting new truck drivers may be pay. While Walmart truckers all of them employees of the retail giant make a highly publicized salary of about $90,000 a year, the average annual wage for a tractor-trailer truck driver was $45,570 as of May 2018, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
April 19, 2021
By Pat Pape
This is the first of a two-part NACS Daily series on the truck driver shortage in the U.S.
ALEXANDRIA, Va. Since last August, merchandise deliveries to Square One Markets in Pennsylvania have been delayed at least 10 times, usually for about 24 hours. The reason: There was no driver available to make the delivery.
“Our distributor has never had that problem before,” said Lisa Dell’Alba, president and CEO of Square One Markets. “But Pennsylvania is having a terrible time finding workers construction, convenience store and truck drivers. It’s been difficult and caused a bit of disruption in our organization.”
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