Sometimes you find out your dream job is actually a nightmare.
For his sake, it might have been best he find out early and move on to other things. For the rest of us… yeah, we need more drivers.
There are ways for operators to improve truck driver productivity and historically that has meant tracking vehicles and monitoring drivers to the extent that some even fit CCTV in the cabs.
Most drivers would say that the answer is to make the warehouses turn delivery vehicles around faster. Demurrage is the way forward and the threat of a substantial charge after an hour of waiting might encourage them to get more organised. Most of these deliveries are timed, so they have no real excuse for holding an expensive truck and driver up for hours, just for their own convenience. Drivers should be driving, not fast asleep in their cabs on loading bays.
I sense an alternative Nativity play in the making.
Unto us a porkchop is born.
There are projects like these :-
https://www.midlandsconnect.uk/projects/midlands-engine-rail/midlands-rail-hub/
Mega rail hubs which claim to be removing 1000s of trucks from the roads over the
next decade. That might alleviate the problems …
Aah, yes, making use of the famously efficient and well-maintained British railway network, that seems sensible.
So cynical of you.
Justifiably so, but still.
New survey out:
Someone posted this in one of the pandemic discussions, it mentions a shortage of truckdrivers in the United States: