An aging workforce is partly to blame. The American Trucking Associations last October estimated the industry is short of 80,000 drivers. Employers have responded by boosting weekly pay, in some cases to more than five times the historical average. The White House is also doing its part. President Joe Biden on Monday ispolicy changes that expand apprenticeships, make it easier to get commercial driver licenses, and more.
Yet while most sectors gained workers from February to March, trucking lost almost 5,000 of them according to the
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