{"id":5704,"date":"2022-10-04T13:29:20","date_gmt":"2022-10-04T13:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/?p=5704"},"modified":"2022-10-04T13:29:20","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T13:29:20","slug":"recruitment-and-retention-becomes-a-costly-challenge-for-trucking-u-s-execs-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/recruitment-and-retention-becomes-a-costly-challenge-for-trucking-u-s-execs-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Recruitment and Retention Becomes a Costly Challenge for Trucking, U.S. Execs Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hirschbach Motor Lines President Brad Pinchuk says the carrier\u2019s driver hiring costs have spiked by about 2.5 times since the onset of the pandemic.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re having to work harder to keep our trucks filled,\u201d said Pinchuk. \u201cWe\u2019re keeping them full, but we\u2019re having to work a lot harder. We\u2019re having to spend a lot more money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Retaining workers across the industry has become costlier. Driver wages per mile in the U.S. jumped 10.8% from 2020 to 2021, increasing from 56.6 cents to 62.7 cents, according to the American Transportation Research Institute\u2019s 2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/ciffa.apms5.com\/anywhere\/m?s=ciffa&amp;m=s_980e1637-76f6-45ef-b40a-09962ec780bf&amp;u=e1jq4wvfdtfm8dhg6n1k4hj45n2mad255mu36ha25n13ada35mt3jc1m6rtm8cj370uk8&amp;r2=d1u78w3k78qjyx3jenhppubecxt6awv5c5t66u1edxt6ebvqe0pp6vveehjpwx1fenr6rvv1chtjychg68t2yc1r5x0n8mj95n7q0tbjc5u6jvvec5p2ugvfedu2uvv65na74xb3ddmpwttd68r34chee1j6cfvnehpnyrv1dnr62ub7drypagkndhp6ax39dtfk4chg74tk09knehpnyvb5chmqav9xcnpp2ubc4tuq8vazedqqawk3cmyp2xbmdxr6jv3feg&amp;n=5\">cost of trucking<\/a>\u00a0report.<\/p>\n<p>Bill Kretsinger, CEO of American Central Transport, said drivers are also expecting more from their employers.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in an <a href=\"https:\/\/ciffa.apms5.com\/anywhere\/m?s=ciffa&amp;m=s_980e1637-76f6-45ef-b40a-09962ec780bf&amp;u=e1jq4wvfdtfm8dhg6n1k4hj45n2mad255mu36ha25n13ada35mt3jc1m6rtm8cj370uk8&amp;r2=d1u78w3k78qjyxvqewq78wk1dttq0vvjehj6jxk55thpyv9fdtjqewtfctu74b9j60t34bb3dxq6ctbjcnq66t9dcdgq4wk9cnt2uw35e9tq0tb3ehmqct9de1mpwrv8ennjuuvjcnu76ubecxjq4btp6ct3ac1t5wzqax3dbxhp2vbgc5mpevhxcn17av3ccnu6jvjz68t30e9k60k7ax3dbxppat39enpkutbdc5mpr9knehpnywvfent66t9xc5uq8vvgd5p6yx0&amp;n=6\">article from Transport Dive<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hirschbach Motor Lines President Brad Pinchuk says the carrier\u2019s driver hiring costs have spiked by about 2.5 times since the onset of the pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2365,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[529],"types-de-nouvelles":[],"class_list":["post-5704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-freight-news","tag-hirschbach-motor-lines-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5705,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5704\/revisions\/5705"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5704"},{"taxonomy":"types-de-nouvelles","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types-de-nouvelles?post=5704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}