🛠 9/6/21 Build Week Group

[PAULWESTSKI]

And to think I had an advantage with a Covoy delivery. Boy was I wrong

Can anyone explain why there is a shortage of truck drivers.
I can't imagine enough truck drivers had to stay home to watch their kids during the 2020 Covid lock down to cause a shortage.
Or that there were enough truck drivers that were infected with Covid to make an impact on available truck drivers.

They are essential personnel they should be working.
Everyone in our household is considered essential personnel, and none of us have missed any appreciable amount of time off work, aside from normal PTO.

It's not like there was a slow down of products to ship. If anything there would have been a greater demand to ship all of that toiler paper.

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[tippydee]

Can anyone explain why there is a shortage of truck drivers.
I can't imagine enough truck drivers had to stay home to watch their kids during the 2020 Covid lock down to cause a shortage.
Or that there were enough truck drivers that were infected with Covid to make an impact on available truck drivers.

They are essential personnel they should be working.
Everyone in our household is considered essential personnel, and none of us have missed any appreciable amount of time off work, aside from normal PTO.

It's not like there was a slow down of products to ship. If anything there would have been a greater demand to ship all of that toiler paper.

Many were sent to ports to help offload ships because there is a massive bottleneck to my understanding. So a lot of cargo inland has been put on the back burner for those longer hauls.

 

[TX21BRONC]

This is me too with 10/12 eta and I’m in Dallas

You might want to check with your dealer. I'm in Allen and my Bronco just arrived at Bob Tomes Ford in McKinney. I would assume yours would be on the same train and hauler.

 

[BlueOvalBandit]

Can anyone explain why there is a shortage of truck drivers.
I can't imagine enough truck drivers had to stay home to watch their kids during the 2020 Covid lock down to cause a shortage.
Or that there were enough truck drivers that were infected with Covid to make an impact on available truck drivers.

They are essential personnel they should be working.
Everyone in our household is considered essential personnel, and none of us have missed any appreciable amount of time off work, aside from normal PTO.

It's not like there was a slow down of products to ship. If anything there would have been a greater demand to ship all of that toiler paper.

There's also just a shrinking number of drivers, coupled with increased demand. Not a lot of people a signing up to be long haul these days. Long periods on the road away from family is not appealing to many.

 

[PAULWESTSKI]

There's also just a shrinking number of drivers, coupled with increased demand. Not a lot of people a signing up to be long haul these days. Long periods on the road away from family is not appealing to many.

Well if they are paying fast food workers 15$ an hour, the trucking companies need to up their game and pay the truck drivers more money......yeah I know ultimately the end user will foot the bill for that.

 

[TheKim]

Well if they are paying fast food workers 15$ an hour, the trucking companies need to up their game and pay the truck drivers more money......yeah I know ultimately the end user will foot the bill for that.

That's kind of the thing though, right? Like, fast food and a handful of industries are figuring it out, but not all of them. There's a Jimmy Johns that's trying to start people at minimum wage and is wondering why no one will work there. Like, why work there for $7.50 or whatever when McDonalds or Del Taco will start them at $15. Truck drivers are getting paid like $20-30 an hour, and are like, I could just work McDonalds for $15 and be near home, so why do it for $20 or so an hour.
More industries are going to need to up their pay if they want to keep the talent on domestic shores.

 

[Hoosier.Bronco]

That's kind of the thing though, right? Like, fast food and a handful of industries are figuring it out, but not all of them. There's a Jimmy Johns that's trying to start people at minimum wage and is wondering why no one will work there. Like, why work there for $7.50 or whatever when McDonalds or Del Taco will start them at $15. Truck drivers are getting paid like $20-30 an hour, and are like, I could just work McDonalds for $15 and be near home, so why do it for $20 or so an hour.
More industries are going to need to up their pay if they want to keep the talent on domestic shores.

Personal experience having dump trucks running on the road all the time. Truckers make 30-50hr. DOT restrictions are a huge down fall for long haul.

 

[TheKim]

Personal experience having dump trucks running on the road all the time. Truckers make 30-50hr. DOT restrictions are a huge down fall for long haul.

I should admit that I don't actually know the salary of truck drivers, lol.
I was just guesstimating.

Looking it up for long-haul though, looks like I wasn't too far off base.
https://www.ziprecruiter.com/Salaries/Long-Haul-Truck-Driver-Salary

Around $31 an hour on average. That's not a lot in todays money, with always being on the move, and extremely long shifts.

 

[BadK22]

Can anyone explain why there is a shortage of truck drivers.
I can't imagine enough truck drivers had to stay home to watch their kids during the 2020 Covid lock down to cause a shortage.
Or that there were enough truck drivers that were infected with Covid to make an impact on available truck drivers.

They are essential personnel they should be working.
Everyone in our household is considered essential personnel, and none of us have missed any appreciable amount of time off work, aside from normal PTO.

It's not like there was a slow down of products to ship. If anything there would have been a greater demand to ship all of that toiler paper.

Yeah, I don't buy the trucker shortage narrative. I work for an OEM and our output has remained around 700 vehicles/day and the total number in our yard has remained constant. Trucks come in and out all day long just as they always have.

Also, isn't there a massive vehicle shortage due to the lack of chips? You would think this would mean that there would be an excess of truck drivers with car haulers looking for work, not the other way around. A car hauler can do 1 thing, and that's haul cars.

 

[tjnoffy]

Latest update to the rail car delivering my Bronco (I hope!) to Petersburg, VA. May include deliveries for @tippydee and @timgarrett but we have no evidence of that.

Edit: It departed Bellevue last night at 22:03.

If I'm understanding Norfolk Southern's voice system correctly (not always easy), the rail car is at the Poe Automotive Distribution Facility in Petersburg as of 2:45 pm!!! Gosh I hope I'm right! Hopefully my dealer will get it tomorrow, and I'll drive down either tomorrow or Saturday to get my rig!

I'm only sorry that it didn't arrive with its FWBB, right @tippydee ???

 

[tjnoffy]

Why did Ford choose to use a box truck as their delivery icon...can they not do anything right? It's not like Broncos can fit into an Amazon delivery truck....plus it's not even a Transit.

The same reason that the 'Save' icon in your computer apps is a 3.5" floppy disk!

 

[tippydee]

If I'm understanding Norfolk Southern's voice system correctly (not always easy), the rail car is at the Poe Automotive Distribution Facility in Petersburg as of 2:45 pm!!! Gosh I hope I'm right! Hopefully my dealer will get it tomorrow, and I'll drive down either tomorrow or Saturday to get my rig!

I'm only sorry that it didn't arrive with its FWBB, right @tippydee ???

Lol yeah, didn’t make it there with its FWBB on that same train which SUCKS. You need to have a talk with yours about the buddy system and how it had the audacity to leave mine behind like that. Fingers crossed on tomorrow being the big day for you! I’m super jealous, but happy yours finally made it.

 

[MorgansRun]

If I'm understanding Norfolk Southern's voice system correctly (not always easy), the rail car is at the Poe Automotive Distribution Facility in Petersburg as of 2:45 pm!!! Gosh I hope I'm right! Hopefully my dealer will get it tomorrow, and I'll drive down either tomorrow or Saturday to get my rig!

I'm only sorry that it didn't arrive with its FWBB, right @tippydee ???

So, from Blend Date to (hopefully) at Dealer tomorrow in a month? Seems long, no? I only started following when you were in the WV Appalachians, so I might have missed something.

 

[6GSooner]

Does Ford send out a "Delivered" email once it lands at the dealership, or do I just have to keep bugging my dealer?

 

[1975U15]

Does Ford send out a "Delivered" email once it lands at the dealership, or do I just have to keep bugging my dealer?

I received one, but it seems to be hit and miss.

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