News Call 800-726-8376 Se Habla Español Some experts say trucker shortage is overblown The images are startling. Cargo ships lined up offshore, waiting to dock and unload their cargo. America is in a supply chain crisis and many fingers are pointing to a shortage of U.S. truck drivers. The American Trucking Associations, the country’s leading industry trade group, estimates the driver shortage at 80,000. Business Insider recently talked to eight logistics experts, both academic and within the industry, that said the trucker shortage has been overblown and is modest at best. “Somehow companies have found a way to pin the entire crisis on the backs of truck drivers,” said Billy Randel, a long-haul trucker, and the organizer of the Truckers Movement for Justice. “This notion of a trucker shortage has been circulated to the point that it’s just become accepted by news outlets, companies, and customers alike — even without the data to back it up,” he told the publica
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