Tackling the great resignation in vehicle haulage
By Marcus Williams2022-06-21T09:55:00
The shortage of haulway drivers in the US got worse during Covid focusing minds at Ford, United Road and RPM on strategies to make deliveries more efficient
The sector for road haulage of finished vehicles has lost 30% of capacity for good because of the exodus of drivers. Those drivers are doing a physically and mentally demanding job but at the same time are seeing a shrinkage of the premium pay gap that used to exist between car haulage and general freight driving.
“We ask the car hauler to do so much more [than general freight does],” said Mark Anderson, president and CEO of United Road, adding that inefficient vehicle yards that have drivers waiting around for hours, combined with difficulty in parking trucks to load safely, were just additional burdens that had pushed many out.