The Truck Driver Shortage

Why we have this problem, how it threatens our entire economy, and what we can do to solve it The U.S. Department of Labor recently published a provocative report. They asked, “Is the US labor market for truck drivers broken?” Indeed, the trucking industry faces a tremendous driver shortage. In 2019, the US shortage spiked from 10,000 to 60,800, according to the American Trucking Association. A recent Bloomberg article forecasts that the current shortage will double. The ATA forecasts a further spike to 160,000 over the next decade. How did we get here? First, driving a truck is a hard job…....