Employer Quotes

The quotes below are from employers in this industry: Transportation

The quotes below are about this issue:
Employers say many incumbents are reaching retirement age without a sufficient replacement workforce.

Employer Quote	Region
"I can tell you that in my CDL operations...we just did our demographics study of that and we have about 80 percent of our drivers that are within 10 years of retirement. It's a major fear at this point, because we have to get them up and get them trained and rolling. And when you have limited resources coming in, it's a major fear for a growing company that our growth will be stymied 100 percent by lack of qualified employees."	Central
"I also think a caveat to the demand is that generally speaking, the technician is very pretty aged workforce when you look at it. There's a lot of 40s to 50s and I think if you look at it further out, they're [going to be retiring]."	Metro
"In 10 years we'll probably have 40 percent of the workforce retired, of my technicians. Now's the time to start [bringing in more students]...but when you can't even get them to come in the door...We're short now. What's going to happen in 10 years? I'm hoping we get some more kids recruited."	Northwest
"Q: Okay. So 40 percent of these techs are going to be gone in 10 years...and how many is that? A: Oh, it's going to be about, when it's all said and done, it'll probably be 20 people."	Northwest