For years, the industry has focused on recruiting more drivers to solve capacity constraints. But Dr. David Correll argues that there's another side to the equation: how much of each driver's available workday is actually spent driving?
Long waits at warehouses, inefficient pickup and delivery processes, parking, and other forms of detention can keep drivers off the road and reduce the industry's effective capacity.
Instead of asking, “How do we find more drivers?” the industry should also be asking: “How do we stop wasting the time of the drivers we already have?”
Stephen A. Smith just tore into Fauci and Democrats for refusing to call him out.
“This was not a good day for Dr. Fauci.”
“He looked very bad.”
“This man held dominion over the lives of a nation, if not the world.”
“Fauci was damn near encouraging us to wear two and three masks at a time.”
“We barely could breathe.”
“How about the six-foot social distancing?”
“Where’d he get that from?”
“He later admitted that it wasn’t backed by science.”
“He's just coming up with this stuff.”
“The lockdowns, the natural immunities, the vaccine’s ability to prevent infection and transmission.”
“Fauci's pulmonary infarction following vaccination that he didn't reveal to the public.”
“This is all shady stuff.”
“And the Democrats have nothing to say?”
“Wasn't it the Democrats that was enforcing stuff?”
“People lost their jobs.”
“Businesses went out of business.”
“Folks’ quality of life was severely compromised.”
@stephenasmith
Finding qualified and compliant drivers is getting harder - that is a good thing - it means more pay for truck drivers and will keep a governor on capacity expansion.
After all, fleets aren't adding trucks if they can't find drivers to fill the seats.
Major overnight surge on truckload spot rates to new all time high.
Truckload van spot rates moved up $.09/overnight to $3.83/mile, the highest level in history.
This is happening despite fuel prices cooling, reinforcing that rate inflation has been driven by supply/demand in trucking and not diesel price pass thru.
For those not following trucking closely: trucking is a commodity and prices are driven by supply/demand.
Capacity is tightening due to the compliance crackdown, while demand is increasing due to stronger industrial sector thanks to AI data center construction, energy investments, defense spending, and America’s global industrial competitiveness.
Still waiting for the sob stories on primetime cable news about all the kids in Minnesota who don’t have childcare anymore now that Quality Learing Centers are getting shut down.