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New Trucking Companies on Board

We would like to announce new trucking companies that we have posted on TruckerTrucker.com: Bullet Trucking, US Trucking, Inc., Charlie's Produce, C.A.T.

Bullet Trucking is hiring Company Drivers in California, Michigan, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas. Home every weekend! 100% no touch freight! 32 - 34 cpm loaded and empty, average 2500 - 3500 miles per week, late model freightliners and internationals, direct deposit through credit union.

US Trucking, Inc. is hiring flatbed company drivers. No out-of-pocket running expenses! Make 36.5 cpm - 40 cpm and Percentage pay, average 2500+ miles per week, average $52,000 + per year, late model Volvo and Internationals - Conventional, 10-speed tractors, weekly pay with direct deposit.

Charlie's Produce is hiring Company Drivers in Alaska, Oregon, and Washington. Hourly Pay: $14-16/hr for Class B Drivers, $15-$17/hr for Class A Drivers. 100% local route delivery. 40 hours per week, with strong opportunity for overtime. 8 to 10 stops per day. Direct deposit. 100% Dedicated Routes.

C.A.T. is hiring Company Drivers and Owner Operators in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Tennessee, and Texas. Pay starts at $.36. hourly pay for OTR drivers doing city work, $300 referral bonus, layover pay, stop pay, detention pay, unload pay.

The Senate voted Tuesday to prohibit the Department of Transportation from spending any money to allow trucks from Mexico to transport goods on U.S. highways in a recently started pilot program. The amendment, which passed with a 74-24 vote, was sponsored by Senator Byron Dorgan (D-ND) as a safety measure. In reality it was pressed forward by organized labor groups and consumer activist groups.

Congress should definitely be making policy based on U.S. interests. Congress isn't around to serve Mexico. However is makes the U.S. look dishonest to negotiate a free-trade agreement (NAFTA), enact it, and then let Congress pass a law that limits a major provision of it.

Meanwhile, the debate continues over whether the program could enhance competition and make better prices for the consumer, or the opposite.

The job of a long-haul trucker is changing and, many trucking companies hope, becoming more attractive.

Trucking companies across the country are facing a shortage of long-haul drivers.

To compensate, companies are trying to recast trucking's nomadic image and recruit more minorities, retired military people and those who want a second career.

Middle-age husband-and-wife teams are becoming more popular. Their kids are raised, they want extra money for retirement or a change in what they do and they become truckers. Teaming up also helps reduce the grind of the road and the time away from home, which have driven many truckers out of the industry.

High driver turnover has traditionally been a problem throughout the trucking industry. But retirements and growing shipping demand have made the shortage of long-haul drivers more acute. Fewer drivers means delayed deliveries and higher delivery costs that could be passed on to consumers. The issue is especially crucial for the Phoenix area, which touts itself as a shipping hub for businesses fed up with the costs and congestion around Los Angeles-area ports. The Valley also is headquarters to two of the country's biggest for-hire trucking companies: Swift Transportation and Knight Transportation.

"We're not getting any new blood coming into the business," said Jeff Mason, a publisher and vice president at Randall-Reilly Publishing, an Alabama company that puts out publications for drivers and fleet managers. "We've got to find new sources of people interested in driving."

Tons of help-wanted ads
A year and a half ago, Don Hockersmith was supervising production of about 80 houses in Estrella Mountain Ranch in Goodyear as a superintendent for a home-building company. A couple of weeks ago, the 52-year-old Waddell resident was one of three students riding in a training truck at a Valley truck-driving school.

A superintendent for 25 years with five home builders, Hockersmith was laid off. He couldn't find another job in housing and decided to go to trucking school after he noticed tons of help-wanted jobs. "I never thought I would be a truck driver, but you just have to go for a job," he said.

Hockersmith is the sort of person the trucking industry is looking for: someone ready to fill a job quickly. Trucking companies hope regional runs and predictable schedules will attract people like him.

Swift offers regional runs and says drivers are home at least one day a week. The company also is courting all types of prospects and says it has more than 750 driving teams, including husbands and wives.

It also has created training and retention programs. A driver who has been with the company at least a year can earn even more as a mentor to other drivers.

"Those efforts are paying off," Swift spokesman David Berry said. Eighty percent of Knight's truckload freight moves over short to medium distances, attractive to drivers who want time at home.

Dave Williams, a Knight vice president and chairman of the Arizona Trucking Association, said Knight and other Arizona trucking companies realize better wages and more predictable schedules will help keep drivers from fleeing the business.

Worsening the problem is the shrinking core demographic group that provides half of drivers of big tractor-trailer rigs.

The number of middle-age White men in America is expected to fall by more than 3 million by 2014, according to American Trucking Associations.

Trucking experts say the problem goes beyond a labor shortage in the industry. They call it a threat to the economy.

"Our country needs to figure out how to fix this," said Ray Kuntz, chairman and chief executive of Watkins and Shepard Trucking in Montana and chairman of American Trucking Associations. "Our economy moves on trucks."

Major freighters
The ATA estimates that trucks carry nearly 70 percent of tonnage of all the modes of domestic freight, including manufactured and retail goods. The Arizona Trucking Association estimates trucks move 87 percent of the freight in Arizona.

Six months ago, about 15 percent of the fleet at the Buckeye trucking company Duncan & Son Lines was idle. It wasn't due to lack of business.

Duncan, which specializes in hauling cargo containers between Southern California ports and the Phoenix area, couldn't hire enough drivers.

A weaker economy has removed some of the pressure, but Rick Duncan, company president, says the shortage "will be as bad as it was before, or worse, when the economy starts improving."

Wendy Lombardi, president of Worldlinq Logistic Systems in Phoenix, said new regulations, the rising cost of fuel and delays at ports are persuading the owner-operators whom she hires to haul containers to get out of the business.

"It's causing them to think, 'Hey, maybe I want to do something else,' " she said.

Problems for everybody
The driver shortage is more than a problem for trucking companies.

Duncan said goods start to pile up at the ports and aren't delivered on schedule.

The shortage has made for delivery schedules with no room for error at the big Glendale warehouse where Conair ships its namesake hair-care tools and Cuisinart kitchen products everywhere west of the Mississippi River.

The warehouse used to have more flexibility and room for glitches in its schedules, and spare drivers were always available. But with the shortage, nothing can go wrong, said Kevin Paul, import manager.

'It's a hard life'
Although the industry is trying to make trucking more attractive, former long-hauler Charles Blagg says potential drivers should understand they will still face the challenges of "miserable" big-city traffic, long hours and weeks away from home.

Blagg left the business after eight to 10 years on the road and now heads a trucker-training program at Glendale Community College.

Driving long-haul was difficult, he said. He had no regular sleeping hours and would sometimes make pickups at 2 or 3 in the morning, drive 500 miles and then do the same thing again.

"It's not like you're on vacation all the time," he said. "It's a hard life out there."