Walmart’s recent pay raise for truckers to as high as $110,000 masks a trucking industry in which the midpoint in pay for drivers is less than half that amount.
. Before then, there were fewer than 20,000 authorized interstate trucking companies in the country, and the majority of big-rig drivers were members of the Teamsters union, earning an average of more than $100,000 in today's dollars. Deregulation opened the floodgates to fierce competition among shippers and carriers, as well as drivers. Today more than 10 million Americans hold a CDL, Viscelli said, nearly triple the 3.5 million jobs that require the certification.
Yellow is coordinating with the DOL in running its 17 driving academies across the country."Our academies are paid, one-year apprenticeship programs that consist of four weeks of classroom instruction and on-the-road training with a certified instructor," said Tamara Jalving, the company's vice president of safety and talent acquisition. The students, hired as Yellow employees at $17.50 an hour, earn a CDL and then receive an additional four weeks of skills training.
Personal safety is the number-one reason women leave trucking, Voie said. A whitepaper recently published by WIT,"Addressing Gender Bias and Harassment in the Trucking Industry," includes results of a survey of women drivers. More than half reported that while on the job they have received verbally offensive comments more than once, 28% have received multiple verbal threats, 39% have been subject to an unwanted physical advance more than once, and nearly 4% have experienced rape.
A provision included in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, and reiterated in the White House's Trucking Action Plan, calls for the formation of a truck leasing task force that will investigate predatory truck leasing arrangements with the DOL and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
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