“I THINK WE’VE GOT A LOT BETTER SHOT AT FINDING PEOPLE THAT ARE SENIORS IN HIGH SCHOOL THAT SEE THAT AS A VIABLE CAREER OPTION FOR THEM THAN WE ARE TRYING
TO CATCH PEOPLE OFF THE REBOUND FROM ANOTHER CAREER.”
DAVE MANNING, PRESIDENT, TCW
Transportation Research Institute reported in a study that the median age for over-the- road truck drivers is 49, compared to 42 for all U.S. workers, while private fleet drivers have a median age of 52. As ATRI President and Chief Executive Officer Rebecca Brews- ter said, “We are going to fall off a cliff here because we have dramatic numbers in our workforce at the upper end, and we’re just simply not backfilling.” The logical inconsistencies of the
“We think that’s the right way to ap-
proach this is to say, ‘Let’s not toss drivers keys and tell them they can drive coast to coast. Let’s put appropriate limitations on them and follow the model we’ve used with passenger vehicle operators and have driv- ers earn their way off of those restrictions.’ But also through the use of a pilot, we can better understand the impact,” he said. The ATA, in fact, supports a graduated
CDL system of some kind for drivers ages 18-25, Abbott said.
Supporters of graduated CDLs say
they could help the motor carrier industry address its worsening driver shortage. In an analysis released in October, the ATA said that the current deficit will reach almost 48,000 drivers by the end of 2015 and could reach almost 175,000 by 2024. The industry must hire an average of
89,000 drivers a year over the next decade, with 45 percent of the demand coming from the need to replace an aging workforce of retiring drivers. Last year, the American
current system are obvious. A driver with almost three years of safe driving experi- ence who is one day shy of turning 21 can drive almost 500 miles from Memphis to Tennessee’s northeast corner, but he can’t cross the Mississippi River into Arkansas. Meanwhile, a driver with no experience who is one day older can drive from Los Angeles to Boston. For the industry, it’s about more than
finding drivers whose ages fall somewhere in a three-year time span. Dave Manning, president of Nashville-based TCW, said the 21-year-old minimum age requirement effectively removes trucking from consider- ation at the time in life when young people are considering their first career. With in-
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