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[–] Showroom7561 32 points 10 months ago (1 children)

... driving 16 hours straight, with only water and a bag of chips in the cab before resting at a pit stop.

No amount of training will “fix” the working conditions these drivers have to face.

The paper cited an aging workforce, demand for higher pay and difficulty attracting youth and women to the profession as the main reasons for the shortage.

“Difficulty attracting” and “demand for higher pay” are linked. Add in the horrific work conditions and there's no wonder the industry has a problem! They caused it!!

[–] DarkSirrush 10 points 10 months ago

The most recent failed response to poorly trained drivers was tripling the tuition cost without offering any subsidies to help pay for it... And companies used it as an excuse to stop covering even the amount for training they used to.