{"id":23103,"date":"2022-10-29T02:59:17","date_gmt":"2022-10-29T06:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=23103"},"modified":"2022-10-29T02:59:31","modified_gmt":"2022-10-29T06:59:31","slug":"the-driver-of-the-big-rig-one-lane-over-might-soon-be-one-of-these-teenagers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=23103","title":{"rendered":"The driver of the big rig one lane over might soon be one of these teenagers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/10\/28\/1131576176\/trucking-drivers-jobs-shortage-high-school-teenagers?utm_source=fark&amp;utm_medium=website&amp;utm_content=link&amp;ICID=ref_fark\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/20221017_npr_trucker_story_cam_a_179_edit_custom-b28a6cb263af38db5a39e512ae70815469c17b53-s1100-c50.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"340\" height=\"226\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">The trucking industry projects it will need to hire over a million drivers over the next decade. One idea that&#8217;s gained some traction: Bring in younger drivers, starting in high school.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/10\/28\/1131576176\/trucking-drivers-jobs-shortage-high-school-teenagers\">The driver of the big rig one lane over might soon be one of these teenagers<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>there are lots of 18 yos that could handle long haul trucking.  as long as testing training is good, not a problem.  but instead of trying to get the youngers to pay less, how &#8217;bout paying your exsiintg 46-yo avg work force better so they can reap better  and maybe stick with ifg longer.  and stop being dicks to drivers?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The trucking industry projects it will need to hire over a million&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[788,936,57],"class_list":["post-23103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-labour","tag-trucking","tag-usa","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}