88,300 truck drivers lost their jobs in April, and it's the biggest trucking job loss on record

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: Business Insider

Approximately 88,300 truck drivers lost their jobs in April.

It's the biggest single-month loss of trucking jobs on record, according to data extending back to January 1990.

April wiped out all trucking employments gained during the past five years and a half years, bringing the industry back to its employment numbers in November 2014.

The rest of the April jobs report, which was released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics on May 8, was similarly jarring. Some 20.5 million payrolls were cut in April, which is 25 times larger than the worst monthly decline seen during the recession in the late 2000s.

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[SheltieLover]

1. K&R!

[bucolic_frolic]

2. Shop local? /nt

[Wellstone ruled]

3. Interesting number.

Our National Supply Chain was wrecked by this Virus. And this is one of the reason there are shortages . And this Supply Chain will take months to recover. We adopted a Just In Time Delivery model and it takes weeks to fix the choke points.

[erronis]

4. Truckers without jobs and their familes aren't going to be shopping locally or anywhere else.

Some people I know that had jobs in other industries took up trucking as a way to support their families. They are usually in their 50's to 60's.

They aren't going to get jobs back. Their families will be destitute (DESTITUTE). No income, no way to pay rent. No shopping.

This golden trickle-down promoted by (r)epuglicons will destroy the heartland.

And that's what they (r) want.

[FakeNoose]

5. Trucking companies are looking to make a big investment in robot drivers

The only thing that held them back was the question of how to get rid of the human drivers.

Problem solved. (not really)

[ZERTErYNOthe]

6. 88,300 truck drivers lost their jobs in April, and it's the biggest trucking job loss on record

My brother (in law, still my bro) is a long haul driver. He works for a good company, and he has no shortage of loads to deliver. You may have eaten what he delivered, if it came from the west coast. Even with the current supply chain problems he is still delivering goods to people, thankfully.

[DiverDave]

7. My company just put a sign out

"Drivers Wanted"
I drive for a flatbed company, it was slow for 2 days a couple of weeks ago.
But I have been busy since.

[tinymontgomery]

11. Just for basic knowledge

Just for basic knowledge, is there a difference between a flatbed company
and a basic conex hauling truck company? I may have answered my own
question?

[DiverDave]

13. Conex?

There are different trailer types. Flatbed is just the trailer with no sides. Just the deck.
We haul equipment and other freight that can't fit in a van type trailer.

[madville]

8. Most of that is probably local drivers

Restaurant food delivery like Sysco and US foods, cement and dump truck drivers, etc, etc., those jobs will return when things reopen and things like construction projects restart in areas they were shutdown.

These temporary job losses are part of the cost of shutting down and saving lives, hopefully unemployment is covering at least a portion of their income.

[dware]

9. Owner/Operator long haul trucker here,

It hasn't affected me in the least, except in how easy it's been for my agent to find me loads.

Most of those laid off or otherwise are probably local drivers.

[RussBLib]

10. sure were plenty of truckers on the highways in Austin, TX

just the other day. The wife and I drove thru there and the traffic was like pre-Covid. Jammed, slow, tons of cars and trucks all over the place. It was rather nuts. As usual, in Austin.

It would be nice to know roughly how many truckers there are total in the country. That story didn't bother to give the larger number, just how many jobs are lost. Sloppy reporting.