We Have a Serious Shortage of Truckers

Trucks are how we get the majority of things we use in our daily life. They’re one of the most crucial parts of a supply chain delivering everything from food, medicines, automobiles, and more. Right now we have a truck driver shortage in the US that is causing major disruptions to our economy, and it’s starting to affect consumers.

Sage Corporation President Chris Thropp is saying that a nationwide truck driver shortage started to become a headache even before the COVID-19 pandemic. Thropp says a truck driver shortage of about 60,000 drivers was reported back in 2019 and the number has grown to about 100,000 a year.

“There are so many choke points in the supply chain,” Thropp said. “I don’t know that anybody really knows how long it’s going to take to unwind all of this and hope that it doesn’t grind to a halt.”

When the likes of Dr. Anthony Fauci and others started calling for COVID lockdowns at the beginning of 2020 (some believe he was pushing for lockdowns to help the Democrats harm then President Donald Trump’s reelection efforts) they never thought about what those lockdowns would do to the economy. That’s called unintentional consequences, although I’m still not so sure it wasn’t intentional.

The COVID lockdowns included truck driving schools. Talk about shooting an economy in the foot.

While the pandemic lockdowns destroyed small businesses (a major part of GOP fundraising) who were forced to shut down their businesses, people like Jeff Bezos (a Democrat mega-donor) at one point bragged about earning an additional $70 billion during the pandemic, because Americans who couldn’t go out to shop for many things turned to Amazon.com and other online outlets to get their stuff. This, added to the mix, created a pattern of long shipping times and a bunch of supply chain problems.

Each year, about 12 billion tons of freight is delivered across the fruited plains and trucks account for over 70 percent of delivery.

Roughly 8 million people worked in the trucking sector before the pandemic.

Thanks to rising consumer demand during the pandemic, and adding in disruptions in labor markets and other sectors in our economy, we now have an unparalleled shortage of truck drivers to deliver all the freight that needs to be moved.

“There is not a day that goes by that we don’t get a call from a trucking company saying we need drivers, and we’re increasing our pay and we’re making it better from a lifestyle standpoint trying to get people home,” Thropp said, according to CBS 21.

As of recent months, the labor market is becoming more turbulent as a record number of people are quitting their jobs either because the Biden administration is paying people to stay home and not work or because of vaccine mandates. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, in August, about 4.3 million workers left their jobs. That’s almost 3 percent of the workforce.

There are similar problems in the shipping sector where ships are sitting outside ports for weeks on end because the ports cannot find enough workers to unload them. Too many people are staying home after joining Joe Biden’s Flat Ass Society, where they make enough to do nothing.

The lesson to be learned here is these workers matter. Give me a truck driver, a plumber, a guy who offloads cargo ships and trucks over a university egghead who teaches gender studies any day. The Democrats have always loathed the middle-class. They call their homes “flyover country.” Don’t listen to what they say, pay attention to what they do. Liberal Democrats look at middle-class people with disdain. They think of them as nothing more than the people who do all the things they don’t want to do that make their lives comfortable. They do the hard labor, the dirty jobs that make the country work. We are getting a lesson in how invaluable those jobs really are because the country is going down rapidly because of policies being implemented by the very people who look down at those Americans.

Like the average age of farmers being much older than the median workforce age, a substantial number of commercial truck drivers are older male drivers with the average age being 55 or older. Roughly 20 percent of drivers are under 45 years of age. It is feared that when many of the older drivers retire in the coming years, there will not be enough younger drivers to take their place.

I spoke with a source who is an RN and works for a company that provides nurses for special cases. The source told me they can’t find enough nurses to fill the needs of their clients and it is only going to get worse with the more vaccine mandates that Democrat governors and mayors are pushing on the industry.

It’s almost as if the Democratic Party (you do not see conservative Republican governors and mayors pushing policies that are going to destroy our country) is intentionally doing everything they can to make our economy fail in classic Cloward and Piven style. Coming out of a pandemic is the time when you rebuild an economy, but the Democrats are implementing policies that are making things much worse. Something has to give because as GOT fans understand all too well, winter is coming.