I remember someone posting a week or so back about grocery shelves being more empty lately, or at least that's what I think was posted. I've noticed that also. Seems the grocery stores near me aren't stocked up as much as usual. I assumed it was some sort of trucking issue or supply chain issue, but I haven't heard about any national trucking issue. I just needed to take my car in for repair and they said they need to order parts. They said it used to be a day or two to get the parts and now it could be a week or two. She mentioned something about shortage of truckers.
So I'm wondering what's going on? I haven't heard of any trucking strike/slow down. I doubt the truckers are moving, en mass, to a new profession. Is it the increase in gas prices? I can understand how that would lead to higher prices of goods but not slowdowns in delivery.
The nation is short some 70k+ truck drivers for the size of the economy. It has always been short on drivers but Bidenomics seems to have exasperated the problem. Source: Am truck driver, had a driving job and 2 job offers at peak covid and still currently hear adds for driving jobs from essentially every trucking business in my area.
That's great that you're in the driving seat with your job, pun intended. But that still doesn't explain why things have somewhat recently seem to have gotten bad. If we're no worse off in terms of drivers and trucks, why the significant delays in transit times?
Maybe because easier jobs have got pay increases while that has been slow to transfer up to truck drivers? Maybe some burn out from driving during the pandemic? Also the recovering economy certainly had to have put a strain on an already understaffed industry.
Yeah, but before the scamdemic we didn't have these delivery delays. So why now, if roughly the same number of trucks are on the roads?