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We all know the statistic.
The country needs about 50,000 more
drivers immediately.
KXAS, the NBC affiliate in Dallas,
recently reported that companies
in North Texas are down dozens of
drivers, stated the story, and “online
shoppers are feeling the heat.”
The station cited the fact that Amazon
recently hiked its Prime membership
up from $99.00 to $119, saying
“shipping costs” were the reason for
the increase.
As the cost of shipping goes up,
consumers will pay more for products
and produce, the story said.
According to ATA, there will be a need
for 898,000 more drivers over the next
decade to keep up with growth and demand.
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Trucking is still a dangerous occupation, with data
from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) listing
truck drivers and sales drivers as having the
country’s 7th most deadly job in the top 10.
They’re behind logging workers, who placed as No.
1; fishing-related occupations, No. 2; aircraft pilots
and flight engineers, No. 3; roofers, No. 4; trash
and recycling collectors, No. 5; and iron and steel
workers, No. 6.
“Transportation accidents were the leading cause of
job fatalities, resulting in 40 percent of all workplace
deaths in 2016,” said a report from the Business and
Labor Resources organization, which was quoting
from a Time magazine article.
Following behind truck and sales drivers were
farmers and ranchers, (No. 8); first-line supervisors
of construction trades and extraction workers, (No.
9); and grounds maintenance workers at No. 10.
Workplace violence has surpassed slips, trips and
falls as the second most-common cause of on-thejob
death in 2016, the latest numbers available,
according to the report.
The BLS rated occupations according to fatal
work injury rates per 100,000 full-time equivalent
workers.
Truck and sales drivers had the most deaths of all
the occupations, 918, compared to No. 1’s fishing
occupations, which only accounted for 91 fatalities.
Farmers and ranchers/agricultural managers
had 260 deaths followed by grounds maintenance
workers (217); construction workers (134); and
roofers (101).
Logging, however, had 135.9 fatal work injuries per
100,000 workers while truck and sales drivers only
had 24.7.
Aircraft pilots and flight engineers had 55.5 fatalities
per 100,000 workers and roofers were close behind
with 48.6 fatalities; trash collectors with 34.; iron
and steel workers with 25.1; ranchers with 23.1;
construction workers with 18 and grounds workers
with 17.4.
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