For years, the American Trucking Associations (ATA) has relentlessly pushed the narrative of a catastrophic truck driver shortage—60,000 positions unfilled, supply chains teetering on collapse—to ...

Mythbusters — Last month, FreightWaves CEO and founder Craig Fuller published an article dismantling the driver shortage titled “The perpetual truck driver shortage is not real.” In that piece, he ...

The truck driver shortage has eased slightly, but remains near its all-time high, according to American Trucking Associations Chief Economist Bob Costello. ATA’s new estimates show the trucking ...

Long-term trends may cause a significant increase in the driver shortage in the next decade, according to a new analysis paper from the American Trucking Assns. (ATA). The paper states that the ...

The American Trucking Assns. (ATA) today released its latest ATA Driver Compensation Study, which the truck lobby calls the “first look at the state of the trucking labor market since the end of Great ...

How does your fleet’s pay stack up against others in your segment? American Trucking Associations will offer a benchmarking tool to let carriers knew exactly where they stand with the upcoming release ...

SAN DIEGO — American Trucking Associations revealed Oct. 25 that it estimates the shortfall of professional drivers has decreased slightly to 78,000 for this year. ATA Chief Economist Bob Costello ...

How does driver pay stack up to pay in other industries? According to a report issued Dec. 15 by the American Trucking Associations, pay for truck operators is on par with the U.S. median and the ...

Trucking companies outbidding each other for drivers using salary and per-mile wage increases are leaving themselves vulnerable when the next economic downturn hits, the American Trucking ...

To that end, ATA announced it is establishing a workforce development subcommittee that will work with federal and state officials to find solutions to the driver and technician shortages. Two members ...

American Trucking Associations kicked off National Truck Driver Appreciation Week, a week-long celebration of the trucking industry’s 3.5 million professional truck drivers. Running Sept. 10-16, ...