Ageing drivers and driver shortage

yourhavingalarf:

wing-nut:
Looks like the driver shortage is starting to bite, at least in the US anyway.

cnbc.com/2019/01/28/walmart … -year.html

$87,500 a year…

That’s £66,550. Yet we’re still arguing over 20-30k.

Yeh yeh, you gotta be out for months on end for that and live on the road etc but it’s where our money should be.

The article talks of a 5 day week, or at least “being home two days per week” which to me - amounts to the same thing.

I would imagine that the $87,500 is for the three-weeks-out-at-a-time trampers.
That would equate to the old stobarts advert as below, which was their rate for Euro trampers where you have two days home per fortnight, with a reduced weekly rest abroad.


HOWEVER it must be said that as per the other post above - $87,500 at current exchange rates - is Route 66 Large, which ■■■■■■ all over the stobart rate for pretty much the same job.

Here’s a question I’ve got for US truckers:

How difficult is the transition from 8-range change/Auto gearboxes that so many UK trucks have these days - and the big rig manaul gearboxes of US rigs? :confused: