Now as far as driver shortage. It’s not a shortage. It’s a RETENTION PROBLEM. Companies that do pay respectfully and do have legitimate bonuses that really are obtainable and insurance you can use and afford and treat the drivers with respect do not have a very high turnover. They get it. Too many in this business have people in positions that can’t even find their way home when there’s a route problem. Let alone talking to a driver. All they know is the freight has to go no matter what. And drivers are too scared for their jobs to stand up and say NO it’s not safe. Wyoming in the dead old winter is a good example of not safe. Hundreds of crashes a year because some driver feared to say no. Not safe. When someone finually cracks down on the shippers and receivers to start respecting drivers at their facilities then the retention problem would change. Anywhere else you go – any other job has access to bathrooms, food other then vending machines, or can drive walk or whatever to. We are stuck for hours and nobody cares. Not there problem they say.

So until there’s change from within the real problems there will always be a driver shortage. Why would anybody want to come out in the world and want to drive when you’re treated like crap.