Survey shows driver shortage starting to pinch

May 5, 2011

A shortage of qualified truck drivers is impacting, or may impact, the operations of 70 percent of truck fleets polled in a survey released today by an industry consultancy.

The quarterly survey of 52 fleets conducted by CK Commercial Vehicle Research of Columbus, Ohio, also found that 42 percent of those surveyed are currently experiencing problems filling empty seats as well as adding units to meet demand. Another 32 percent said they are currently unaffected but believe they could be impacted in the future by a dearth of qualified drivers.

The survey, conducted in April, polled for-hire, private, and government fleets of various sizes. Collectively, the fleets that were surveyed operate more than 77,000 medium- and heavy-duty rigs and 132,000 trailers.

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KEYWORDS CK Commercial Vehicle Research

Mark Solomon joined DC VELOCITY as senior editor in August 2008, and was promoted to his current position on January 1, 2015. He has spent more than 30 years in the transportation, logistics and supply chain management fields as a journalist and public relations professional. From 1989 to 1994, he worked in Washington as a reporter for the Journal of Commerce, covering the aviation and trucking industries, the Department of Transportation, Congress and the U.S. Supreme Court. Prior to that, he worked for Traffic World for seven years in a similar role. From 1994 to 2008, Mr. Solomon ran Media-Based Solutions, a public relations firm based in Atlanta. He graduated in 1978 with a B.A. in journalism from The American University in Washington, D.C.

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