welcome everyone in today's video we're going to be talking about
how 18 year old truck drivers are affecting the driver shortage if any of you who don't know who
i am my name is amrit and i help and coach trucking companies all across us and canada
to help recruit retain more truck drivers and grow their training business
so in order for these younger drivers to be eligible and to be made into drivers
that can travel across united states they have to go through a training program now the first
requirement is that they have to be put in a truck that has certain safety technologies number one is
that the truck needs to have automatic emergency braking system second thing is they have to have
forward facing cameras in the truck the third thing is the truck has to be governed at max of 65
miles an hour top speed okay cannot be more than that the fourth is that they have to go through
a 400 hour apprenticeship program basically with an in-cab trainer now this in-cab trainer has to
have five years of experience minimum 26 years of age and in the last two years they should not have
any kind of fatal crashes accident incidents on their record so these are the big things
that you have to keep in mind when bridging or helping if you employ or you're thinking to employ
any young drivers in order to become the truck drivers that can cross the state lines up to
this point the truck drivers you could still obtain a cdl but the issue was that you only
could haul or deliver or do trucking within your state so if you're a truck driver who's in iowa
you can only deliver loads in iowa you cannot go to from iowa to minnesota with the new regulations
you can become a truck driver that can at the age under 21 which is amazing because this will open
a bigger driver pool for trucking companies that they've been wanting for a long long time ata
last year came out in october they said that we need over 80 000 truck drivers for the shortage
that we have in the industry right now opening up these three years is certainly going to help that
the current drivers the older drivers they're a little bit pissed off because they're
they're looking at like the younger population is always involved in more fatal crashes
and the stats say like you know drivers who are from the age of 16 to 19
that's three times more likely to be involved in a fatal crash than drivers at the age of 20 or older
so you know stats are in the right it does favor the older drivers with what they're saying but
there's no right or wrong way and why i say that is because if you look at canada we already have
you can already get a license at 18 and drive all across canada and we're okay right so yeah crashes
happen no matter what age or country you may be in but it's been a rule of getting a license at 18
since forever now the current drivers are fighting that you know they've been fighting
about getting better wages better work conditions and now they have not addressed those issues but
just included this younger population to be thrown into the pool so they're kind of a little bit not
feeling that but at the same time if you look at a trucking business perspective it's like
the numbers have to work in order to give your current drivers a raise right like the consumer
products people are trying to the shippers or the manufacturers are trying to make it as cheap as
possible the transportation cost is like they're trying to squeeze every single dollar so how do
you upkeep those two acts that are wanting one is trying to come down and another one is trying
to go up right like you're trying to give your drivers a raise but your shippers are wanting
better rates to haul that freight right so having this new three-year population just come in is
certainly going to ease up now i will also give you measures how you can actually capitalize on
this and help see drivers in your trucks on this new thing that they've introduced first mentorship
that you need to have in your mind is that there's nothing wrong in hiring somebody young like that
because you know a lot of people will say oh that person is young like they don't know how to drive
there's two sides of the story because imagine a truck driver who's grown up in a family of truck
drivers right like maybe father was a truck driver maybe grandfather is a truck driver maybe they
were farmer or like some farming background been grown around machinery have been driving or been
around trucks since the age of four right worse is somebody who got their license the first time at
the age of 25. who do you think could be a better driver right off the hop right so age is just a
number in that scenario and the other thing you've got to look at is like you have to go through
almost same kind of vetting you know running their rapports their background checks as you would if
you were to hire somebody that was 24 or had some sort of experience now we don't know exactly when
this entire apprenticeship program is going to be live it's going to be going actively everywhere
but this is the information that is available so being proactive is the best thing that you can do
now what you can do for your trucking business in this case is that start advertising to drivers
if you can offer all the eligibility things that i mentioned right like they have to be
trained by an in-cab trainer your truck needs to be like automatic emergency braking system
has to have like a forward-facing camera one load no hazmat loads you can most of you could
or potentially could arrange to set up like a little training program for these drivers okay if
if that's something that you want to pursue and i would highly recommend you should okay
you can start advertising online because now you're tapping into younger generation who's glued
to their phone all the time and i've been talking about if you've looked at any of my older videos
or other videos in the channel i've always talked about it as like go online throw a little video
of like what you're offering what your trucking business is about and that's the best way to get
attention of the right kind of truck drivers that match with your offer or what you're looking for
this could not be true with what is going to happen in the upcoming time with this new change
of now younger population being eligible to become a truck driver right so the best thing that
you can do for your trucking business is put in measures to actually accommodate these new changes
start advertising online go to facebook put a little video and i'll link up a video above this
channel where you can learn how you can actually find truck drivers easily and you can do the exact
same measures they're going to perform really good especially now you working with younger trucker
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