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Truck-driver shortage worsens <br /> <br />The American Trucking Associations says there are 1.3 million long-haul truck drivers on the road today, 20,000 short of the number needed to meet current demand. And the shortage could grow to 110,000 by 2014, warns Global Insight, an economic consulting firm that prepared a new report, U.S. Truck Driver Shortatge: Analysis and Forecasts, released May 25 by the ATA. <br /> <br />“The driver market is the tightest it has been in 20 years,” said ATA President Bill Graves. “It's a major limitation to the amount of freight that motor carriers can haul. It's critical that we find ways to tap a new labor pool, increase wages, and recruit new people into the industry that keeps our national economy moving.” <br /> <br />The ATA noted that while the current shortage is set at 20,000 drivers, “it seems larger to the industry because of a high degree of driver 'churning,' or moving from carrier to carrier. Large truckload carriers reported an average turnover of 121% last year.” <br /> <br />From Railway Age Site <br />
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