Driving is no longer the profession it once was. At one time truck drivers were seen as “the knights of the road” who often came to the aid of people with car problems. This was the motto of the American Trucking Association in the past. Today, drivers are under more pressure to make delivery times, drive enough miles so pay does not decrease, deal with much heavier highway traffic, and protect themselves against accident and crime risks. The truck driver’s job has become more controlled, which is contradictory to one of the key reasons why people choose the driving profession, and that is “a feeling of true independence.” Driver wages, the single highest cost of running a trucking company, have, often by necessity, become the chief target of cost control and productivity measures. A consequence of trucking evolution, perhaps unintended, has generally been inadequate pay raises. It will not change until carriers better understand the causes and consequences of driver turnover and re-engineer the driver job.
Driving is no longer the profession it once was. At one time truck drivers were seen as “the knights of the road” who often came to the aid of people with car problems. This was the motto of the American Trucking Association in the past. Today, drivers are under more pressure to make delivery times, drive enough miles so pay does not decrease, deal with much heavier highway traffic, and protect themselves against accident and crime risks. The truck driver’s job has become more controlled, which is contradictory to one of the key reasons why people choose the driving profession, and that is “a feeling of true independence.” Driver wages, the single highest cost of running a trucking company, have, often by necessity, become the chief target of cost control and productivity measures. A consequence of trucking evolution, perhaps unintended, has generally been inadequate pay raises. It will not change until carriers better understand the causes and consequences of driver turnover and re-engineer the driver job.
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