According to the American Trucking Association ATA, there are presently 51,000 vacant truck driver positions open in the U. S. This can be attributed to a few elements, adding the big number of older truckers retiring, millennials’ regular loss of attention in trucking, and the extraordinarily high turnover rate of the field. This is a problem that impacts the entire nation — trucks carry over 70 percent of home freight, meaning that an inadequate variety of drivers will drive up transport costs.
Amazon alone has already seen a 38 % increase in shipping costs in the 1st quarter of 2018.
