Delays are the issue, not a driver shortage

Nov 23, 2021 at 08:30 AM CST
American businesses are not facing a truck driver shortage as much as they are failing to fully utilize the drivers who are already on the job, a U.S. research scientist has argued. “The issue of America’s truck drivers not as a crisis of head count, but rather of working hours,” David Correll of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Center for Transportation and Logistics said in a presentation to the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.

Nov 23, 2021 at 08:30 AM CST

American businesses are not facing a truck driver shortage as much as they are failing to fully utilize the drivers who are already on the job, a U.S. research scientist has argued. “The issue of America’s truck drivers not as a crisis of head count, but rather of working hours,” David Correll of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Center for Transportation and Logistics said in a presentation to the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.