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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by jeaton And after all this fun, you might make 30k after expenses. Should we be surprized that the line of qualified applicants doesn't extend around the block? [/quote] This is what an industry expert said and I quoted (reposted): "One expert that was quoted in this article said churn would continue to be a problem until pay for long haul drivers was ratcheted up to $60,000. As a non-expert I’d add the benefit packages might need sweetening too." The TL portion of the industry, first driven by the Swift model created during 1979 or 1980, was sell them training, endenture them from one to three years and the low wages will offset the churn. If income in the TL protion of the trucking industry was repersented by fair wages, most longhaul loads would hit a ramp for a trip over a railroad between origin and destination. Only the most valuble or time sensitive loads would be trucked nationwide by highly paid teams. Think I full of it? Read a past issue of Trains Magazine or was it Pacific Rail News... about JP Hunts response to driver shortages more than ten years ago. Its good reading, long haul driver's wages went from 32 cents a mile to 42 cents a mile. The bulk of the low margin traffic that would not support higher wages went to intermodal. Jim - Lawton, NV MP 236.0
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