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Employer Quotes
The quotes below are from employers in this industry: Transportation
They are talking about this topic: Industry Trends
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Both the automotive repair and commercial driving sectors have been affected by various federal policies and insurance company requirements; these policies and requirements often make it more difficult to hire new employees. For instance, recent federal requirements state that interstate trucking employees must be at least 23 years old, and insurance policies require a clean driving record for technicians. (Technicians who do not have a clean record are not able to move cars brought in for repair.)
| "One consistent thing that I hear is about the age for insurance, and 23 is really pretty much the common...by the time [I was] 23, I was already on a path. I was graduated from a four-year university. If I was waiting until I was 23 to go and drive a truck, what did I do between there? Probably get in trouble. And then I can't drive a truck because I have a bad record in some other form. So part of it is, we can't wait to have them join the career until they're 23. We need to get them at 19 and then maybe at 19 they need to go through a formalized training program, like a technical college driving school and then they have to be part of a mentoring program at a carrier. We can send them to war at 18. I think we can put them in trucks at 19. I was just with a customer a couple of weeks ago, and he was really disappointed because he had a really good driver, he was 21 years old, and he just got a call from his insurance agent. And I walked in and I could tell his face was still red. He was like, 'Just my insurance agent ruining my business.' And so he told me about what was going on. He said, 'Great kid, 22, grew up on the farm. Had been driving equipment since 13 years old. Another 14 months will make him just perfect. And I don't know what to do with him for 14 months.'" | Central |
| "Congress just passed a law. It's not in effect yet. It's going to really hurt our industry that you have to have a median age of 23 [for commercial drivers]. We're struggling over that one. (The prior age was 18 for commercial drivers)." | Central |