The federal government just confirmed what America's 1.8 million truck drivers have been saying for years — the truck driver shortage doesn’t really exist

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The federal government just confirmed what America's 1.8 million truck drivers have been saying for years — the truck driver shortage doesn’t really exist
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'People want this job, but they can't do it and support their family.'

what truck drivers have long said — and says the trucker labor market is similar to all blue-collar occupation labor markets.

The American Trucking Associations, which represents trucking company leadership rather than truckers themselves, But the Bureau of Labor Statistics concluded this month that oft-parroted claims of a truck driver shortage are overblown. ."There is thus no reason to think that, given sufficient time, driver supply should fail to respond to price signals in the standard way."BLS associate commissioner Kristen Monaco and Stephen V. Burks, a professor at the University of Minnesota Morris, wrote the report, published in the BLS's Monthly Labor Review.

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