Daily Archives: March 24, 2022

STATE OF SELF-DRIVING VEHICLES

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Though we didn’t start experimenting with self-driving vehicles until the 2000’s, we’ve created incredible strides with the hardware in the last 15 years, but the early estimate of 2025 as when most new vehicles would drive themselves won’t become a reality. There are still harder issues being tackled, including the fact that the vehicles’ systems don’t work 100% of the time.  Though almost all “long haul trucker jobs would be eliminated,” and “the effects would be felt across the country as truckers can account for significant income to several rural areas,” this bleak future for truck drivers is still many years away.    Read more…

IT’S A PAY SHORTAGE, NOT A TRUCKER SHORTAGE

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With long stretches away from home and family already making truck driving jobs less than desirable, low pay has compounded the trucker shortage even further.  As drivers around the country “quit their jobs en masse, the trucking industry needs an estimated 80,000 more drivers to operate optimally. That’s a historic high, according to the American Trucking Associations.” Many believe that the only way to fix this issue, as with many other industries across the pandemic-stricken economy, is to re-evaluate wages and benefits for these applicants.    Read more…

TRUCKER HALL OF FAME COMING TO KENTUCKY

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MATS, the 50th Mid-America Trucking Show, is honoring the men, women, and trucking companies who helped create the industry by introducing its first ever MATS Wall of Fame. The commemorative wall will be introduced at this year’s annual trucking event, and it will also be permanently preserved on a digital wall on the MATS website. Current nominees include  “historical figures and trucking  ‘legends’ to modern day trucking professionals that are already influencing the future of trucking,” such as Ellen Voie, Bob Spooner, Susie De Ridder and more.   Read more…