Federal Leaders Host Roundtable With Trucking Executives

[Mike]

Federal officials met with trucking industry representatives to discuss driver retention and supply chain issues July 8.

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was joined by Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Deputy Administrator Meera Joshi and Labor Secretary Marty Walsh at the roundtable discussion.

Attendees included representatives from several trucking groups, including American Trucking Associations, the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association, the Women In Trucking Association and the Truck Safety Coalition.

Driver turnover, combined with the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, has contributed to disruptions in the supply chain. According to DOT, turnover rates are about 90% for large longhaul carriers and approximately 72% for small carriers.

“Our economy is getting back on its feet, but the pandemic has exposed and exacerbated long-standing challenges in our supply chain, including truck driver retention,” Buttigieg said. “We are bringing government, industry and key stakeholders together to help support truck drivers and all the consumers and businesses who rely on them.”

Federal Leaders Host Roundtable With Trucking Executives - TT

Federal officials met with trucking industry representatives to discuss driver retention and supply chain issues July 8.

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[Electric Chicken]

*fires 70,000 drivers for pot that they have no idea when was last consumed*

"Gee we're having trouble keeping drivers. Why?"

It really is an industry fraught with morons.

 

[Electric Chicken]

Part of the problem is something that has nothing to do with the companies themselves.

Roads are SHIT! And they don't even know how to lay a new one that's better than the old one.

Seriously, people, make roads that don't kick our asses and we might not quit so damn often.

 

[Mike]

Part of the problem is something that has nothing to do with the companies themselves.

Roads are SHIT! And they don't even know how to lay a new one that's better than the old one.

Seriously, people, make roads that don't kick our asses and we might not quit so damn often.

After my last trip across Arizona, I can totally get behind this statement. That state just gets worse and worse across 40, especially on the western side of the state. Yet, I can take the northern route across the United States on 80 and it is smooth as glass almost the entire way (talking about the western half of the country).

Every time I cross 40 when going to California, I swear I'm not going back.

Then I go back

 

[Shreck]

After my last trip across Arizona, I can totally get behind this statement. That state just gets worse and worse across 40, especially on the western side of the state. Yet, I can take the northern route across the United States on 80 and it is smooth as glass almost the entire way (talking about the western half of the country).

Every time I cross 40 when going to California, I swear I'm not going back.

Then I go back

I don’t get out of Pa and Ohio much anymore. What states have the best roads any more?

 

[Mike]

I don’t get out of Pa and Ohio much anymore. What states have the best roads any more?

Nevada might have the best roads in the country.

 

[Rigjockey]

I would have liked to chair that meeting.
Well folks, it looks like ya regulated yourself right out of trucking being an industry.
Let the chips fall where they may

 

[Electric Chicken]

I don’t get out of Pa and Ohio much anymore. What states have the best roads any more?

You should roll down the new part of 81 through WV.

 

[Shreck]

You should roll down the new part of 81 through WV.

That was all under construction the last time I went thru there.

 

[389 Hood]

Florida keeps it's roads pretty nice. But, we also don't have the temperature extremes and the snow and ice to really ruin the roads.

 

[Uncle Birchy]

After my last trip across Arizona, I can totally get behind this statement. That state just gets worse and worse across 40, especially on the western side of the state. Yet, I can take the northern route across the United States on 80 and it is smooth as glass almost the entire way (talking about the western half of the country).

Every time I cross 40 when going to California, I swear I'm not going back.

Then I go back

10 wasn't much better especially east of Tucson and some craters around Willcox or Douglas.

New Mexico 10 has some really bad spots too.

 

[frozesolid]

This isn't gonna help...

"We are bringing government,"

Flooding the market with more drivers to tank wages even more

"According to DOT, some 50,000 CDLs have been issued each month in 2021. This rate is 14% higher than the 2019 monthly average and 60% higher than the 2020 monthly average."

 

[Uncle Birchy]

This isn't gonna help...

"We are bringing government,"

Flooding the market with more drivers to tank wages even more

"According to DOT, some 50,000 CDLs have been issued each month in 2021. This rate is 14% higher than the 2019 monthly average and 60% higher than the 2020 monthly average."

Ya but outta those 50 Thousand "Graduates" the BIG "???" is how many will "Actually" MAKE IT..

Of those that "Do" MAKE IT after 3/5 years how Many will still "Be Around"..???

 

[Electric Chicken]

That was all under construction the last time I went thru there.

It still is but now they're starting on the old side. The long awaited new side is open.

And it sucks big time. It's worse than the old side, and both of those lanes are brand new.

Someone on the CB was saying once they finish the old side they'll put a final layer down on all of it. I hope to God that's true because it's absolutely miserable.

 

[Uncle Birchy]

It still is but now they're starting on the old side. The long awaited new side is open.

And it sucks big time. It's worse than the old side, and both of those lanes are brand new.

Someone on the CB was saying once they finish the old side they'll put a final layer down on all of it. I hope to God that's true because it's absolutely miserable.

What I don't get is after a major reconstruction 5 years later it's all ripped up again.

Afew years after I started in this Industry Illinois ripped up the 294 Tollway from Wisconsin Border all the way to almost Gary Indiana added an extra lane or 2 each side.

About 5 years after completing that it's been under a "Perpetual" State of "Constant" Re-Constuction" since that.

Was it such a "Shoddy" Half @$$ed Job only lasted 2/3 years?

Or is @Duck "correct" in that's by "Design" and Job/Contract Security through the AGES.

Either Way for the COUNTLESS BILLIONS of $$$ they've already $pent should be 5/6 lanes Each Side and "SMOOTH" as a Baby's Behind like a Houston Texas Freeway speed limit set at 65/70 mph

 

[Duck]

After my last trip across Arizona, I can totally get behind this statement. That state just gets worse and worse across 40, especially on the western side of the state. Yet, I can take the northern route across the United States on 80 and it is smooth as glass almost the entire way (talking about the western half of the country).

Every time I cross 40 when going to California, I swear I'm not going back.

Then I go back

40 probably gets twice as much truck traffic in the winter months because everyone avoids Wyoming and Colorado. Even in good weather because "Ayy ain hangin no chains"

 

[Electric Chicken]

After my last trip across Arizona, I can totally get behind this statement. That state just gets worse and worse across 40, especially on the western side of the state. Yet, I can take the northern route across the United States on 80 and it is smooth as glass almost the entire way (talking about the western half of the country).

Every time I cross 40 when going to California, I swear I'm not going back.

Then I go back

To be fair, there are a few new sections laid down that are a relief to finally have.

But oddly enough there are some old pieces that got smoothed out, albeit rutted, by the heavy traffic to where the new stuff has bumps in it that make it worse. Not necessarily jarring, just annoying little shakes in the steering wheel.

I kinda miss those ruts. They're like the antique kiddie car ride at Disney with the rail in the middle that keeps you on track even if you let go.

WV is just its own nightmare. The eastern panhandle just blows.

 

[Uncle Birchy]

40 probably gets twice as much truck traffic in the winter months because everyone avoids Wyoming and Colorado. Even in good weather because "Ayy ain hangin no chains"

Even in Nice Weather during Daylight I avoid I-17 from Phoenix to Flagstaff like the "PLAGUE"..

Not just the Mountains and only 4 Lanes..

Add in the Heavy Haulers and the Tourists bobbing in and out on their phones..

Sorry I go into Phoenix on 1O and I leave on 10..

Don't care if it's an Extra hundred miles each way or so..

Much EASIER DRIVING than 17 up outta Phoneix and 40 Eastbound

 

[frozesolid]

Ya but outta those 50 Thousand "Graduates" the BIG "???" is how many will "Actually" MAKE IT..

Of those that "Do" MAKE IT after 3/5 years how Many will still "Be Around"..???

I'd take the under on 10% of those drivers are still in the industry after 3-5 years.

 

[Electric Chicken]

Ya but outta those 50 Thousand "Graduates" the BIG "???" is how many will "Actually" MAKE IT..

Of those that "Do" MAKE IT after 3/5 years how Many will still "Be Around"..???

Unlike your solid, dedicated ass.