Spike of Truck Driver Salary Reaches US$130 thousands

Walmart truck delivery

We experienced increase of 8% to 10% in weekly grocery (fruit, chickens, meat, vegetable) budget recently. The high prices of retail or grocery are believed due to delivery system, where there is massive shortage of truck drivers to move goods from producer to retailers, then to consumers.

Walmart supermarket and Amazon, among two giant companies, need at least 51 thousand truck drivers. Their goods delivery has delayed, thus caused high cost for storage and maintenance, then burdened to consumers. The shortage can’t be solved in short time and becoming worse in near future.  

Many companies offered pay and bonus up to US$130K per-year. Amazon and Walmart provided US$75 thousands for their own drivers and recruiting new driving with interesting pay and bonus. However, mostly driver income wasUS$45 thousand per-year.

Why massive shortage of truck drivers? Some drivers exit the job because of rough condition: far away from families, no respect from police and no respect from other road users (private car drivers).

Many truck drivers did not recommend this job to their own family members and close friends. Do you interest in?