Although labor issues remain a significant challenge for respondents to the National Private Truck Council's annual survey, they continue to report retention and turnover performance far better than their for-hire colleagues. This year, private fleets reported turnover at 16.9%, up a point and a half over last year’s 15.4% average turnover.
The stability of trucking employment over the past 14 years provides some evidence of a tight labor market for truck drivers—the demand for drivers has remained strong while the demand for workers with low levels of education has declined substantially in other sectors.
While it appears that truck drivers are at an earnings disadvantage relative to nondriving blue-collar workers, this disadvantage is only evidence of an earnings gap between light or delivery truck drivers and driver/sales workers, on the one hand, and blue-collar workers, on the other; point estimates of the earnings of heavy truck drivers exceed those of other blue-collar workers throughout the period.
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Average U.S. retail fuel prices for propane, ethanol, biodiesel, gasolin, diesel, etc., since 2000 are shared.
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Statistics covering personal use in 2018. In this report, we cover personal-use policies, programs, and charges, which have remained flat.
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Driver pay started to rise after a drop in 2016 and the driver shortage is a definite concern for fleet managers moving into the future.
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In 2017, private fleets reported that turnover dropped to 15.2% after surpassing the 18% barrier for the first time in the history of the survey last year.
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