The driver shortage – the never-ending debate that isn’t a debate

The driver shortage – the never-ending debate that isn’t a debate

In 2019, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics published a report refuting any claims that there is a driver shortage in the trucking industry. The report concluded that any “tightness” in the labor market could be corrected by increasing truck drivers’ pay. If this weren’t enough, the Institute of Labor Economics published similar findings in 2023. A year later, the National Academies of Science’s driver pay study not only d…