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张贴在10-06-2008

一篇好文章从密尔沃基。

在网上JS ：到处需要的卡车司机

载重汽车运输公司在威斯康辛和再在全国范围内奋斗用司机填装他们的船具在对运输的发展中的经济和强烈的需求之中。

那听起来足够合理从什么我们听见。对问题的答复在同一篇文章上。

当前司机短缺仍然是离激发迅猛增长很远在90年代看的薪水。但薪水， 2000年停滞起点，再在上升，数据从St. 路易斯经纪商A.G。 edwards & Sons · Inc. 展示。

并且这里太-

给短缺加油， A.G.说。 Edwards分析员Donald Broughton，是二个因素被栓到照亮的经济。

首先是移动货物的越来越高的要求。通过4月， 2003年卡车运载的吨位上升了7%同一个期间-非常强的容量，根据Costello。

其次，改善的经济提供潜在的卡车司机其他工作机会。并且对许多，那些比采取他们从家为长的舒展的工作有吸引力。

“经济开始再加热的分钟，并且他们可以得到再雇用在植物或建筑工作，他们将去回到那”， Broughton说。

如果交换被支付并且植物或建筑工作，那里是没有原因回去。除了长时间和是在家每晚。交换将必须与其他产业竞争为人。反而从失业者、福利和H1B移民群。

密尔沃基的Dawes Transport Inc. 如果它可能，将增加另外20个司机队。貂有限公司，一个基于Mondovi的被冷藏的载体运输与2,300个司机，能使用另外50到125。

授予，队是更加坚韧的发现。我上星期得到了`队’装载，因为他们不可能找到队，他们必须为唯一安定。它，一天以后，仍然到那里，但它那里。特别是与在HOS上的变化统治，队为海岸是可贵对海岸产物。

JDC Logistics Inc.，富兰克林载体，在产业支持它的六成员吸收的职员以二新的聘用，其中一人将设定商店在印第安纳卡车停留站设法诱使司机从其他公司-普遍做法。

它是普遍做法，导致转交问题公司有。如果他们支付了 更好的薪水 他们不会必须尝试和窃取有一坏天的司机。

Nationally, truck drivers of all experience levels averaged $43,000 last year, the ATA’s Costello said.

That beats the average annual pay for all U.S. workers of about $37,000. But truckers’ pay comes at a cost. Beyond the extended stretches away from home for many, a 1997 University of Michigan study found that the typical driver worked almost 3,000 hours a year - half again as much as an ordinary full-time employee.

Let me quote the same University of Michigan study that they quote. AGAIN. Okay, not the actual study, I do have the study on order from Amazon.com - Sailors of the Concrete, see my sidebar on the left. This is from an interview from Dr. Belman, the prof that did the study.

Will we see driver shortages again in the future?

Dr. Dale Belman: “Our research indicates that much of what’s been going on in the trucking industry in the past is more what we might call ‘churning.’ It’s not that there aren’t enough drivers, but that drivers aren’t staying with any given fleet very long.

“The result is that fleets are constantly losing drivers and constantly spending resources to recruit and train new ones. But what’s really happening is that their previous drivers are simply going to other fleets and their new drivers are coming from other fleets.

“If there truly were a driver ‘shortage,’ we would have expected to see wages rising and tractors sitting idle. And we really didn’t see that.”

Still, driver wages have gone up, haven’t they?

“They have, but not at a very high rate. While truck drivers earned three times the wages of fast food workers in the late 1970s, they now earn only twice what fast food workers earn.

“During the last recession, several of the largest trucking companies reduced the entry wages of truck drivers. This contrasts to most of the economy where wages don’t fall during recessions. There is even a famous economics book entitled Why Wages Don’t Fall During Recessions.

“Trucking has seen smaller wage increases than most of the economy, particularly the lower wage parts of the economy.”

Back to the original article.

So if demand for trucking continues to rise - and the ATA predicts it will - wages likely will have to rise, too.

Roehl boosted pay by 6% to 8% in February. Schneider raised pay around the same time to make up for drivers’ losses under the new federal work rules and is always considering compensation increases, Nightingale said. Marten Transport, which chairman and president Randy Marten said is among the country’s leaders on wages, is looking at bumping bonus pay.

Raising pay to make up for losses under the new rules, puts drivers back to the same place they were. Compensation increases are usually things like fuel bonuses, safety bonuses, longevity. But not the basic wages. Most bonus programs I’ve seen are unrealistic and are only handed out to a few. Raise compensation for detention on a dock, loading and unloading or layover waiting for a load. That’s where the real problem with pay is.