Statewide Iowa — Trucking companies continue to be behind when it comes to finding enough drivers to get behind the wheel.
Iowa Motor Truck Association president, Brenda Neville, says they’d been behind before the pandemic, and it didn’t get any better.
Neville says 57 percent of all truckers today are over the age of 45 and 23 percent are over the age of 55. That trend would see nearly one-quarter of the current trucking workforce hit retirement age in the next 10 years, not including the nearly eight percent of truck drivers currently working above the retirement age. She says the industry has done a lot of things to try and lure people in.
Neville says there are openings from the big rigs to smaller trucks. She says one positive is you can get into the industry relatively quickly.
Neville says you can determine how long you want to be on the road.
Neville says the industry needs an estimated 60-thousand-800 truck drivers immediately to fill open spots.
