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1 WHITE paper : Analysis of Truck Driver Age Demographics Across Two Decades December 2014. Jeffrey Short Senior research Associate American transportation research Institute Atlanta, GA. ATRI BOARD OF DIRECTORS. Ms. Judy McReynolds Mr. Jeffrey J. McCaig Chairman of the ATRI Board President & CEO. President & CEO Trimac transportation , Inc. Arkansas Best Corporation Houston, TX. Fort Smith, AR. Mr. Gregory L. Owen Mr. Michael S. Card Head Coach & CEO. President Ability/ Tri-Modal transportation Combined Transport, Inc. Services Central Point, OR Carson, CA. Mr. Rich Freeland Ms. Annette Sandberg President & COO President & CEO.

2 Cummins Inc. Transsafe Consulting, LLC. Columbus, IN Davenport, WA. Mr. Hugh H. Fugleberg Mr. Douglas W. Stotlar President & COO President & CEO. Great West Casualty Company Con-way Inc. South Sioux City, NE Ann Arbor, MI. Mr. Jack Holmes Mr. Steve Williams President Chairman & CEO. UPS Freight Maverick USA, Inc. Richmond, VA Little Rock, AR. Mr. Dave Huneryager Ms. Rebecca M. Brewster President & CEO President & COO. Tennessee Trucking Association American transportation research Nashville, TN Institute Atlanta, GA. Mr. Chris Lofgren President & CEO Honorable Bill Graves Schneider National, Inc. President & CEO. Green Bay, WI American Trucking Associations Arlington, VA.

3 Mr. William J. Logue President & CEO. FedEx Freight Memphis, TN. ATRI research ADVISORY COMMITTEE. Mr. Steve L. Niswander Dr. Patti Gillette Mr. Robert D. Moseley, Jr. RAC Chairman Vice President transportation Attorney VP, Safety Policy & Regulatory Colorado Motor Carriers Smith Moore Leatherwood Relations Association Groendyke Transport, Inc. Mr. Scott Mugno Mr. Matt Hart Vice President of Safety Mr. Duane Acklie Executive Director FedEx Ground Chairman Illinois Trucking Association Crete Carrier Corporation Mr. Dean Newell Ms. Kendra Hems Vice President, Safety Mr. Kirk Altrichter President Maverick USA, Inc. VP Maintenance New York State Motor Truck Crete Carrier Corporation Association Mr.

4 Richard Plewacki Partner Ms. Susan Alt Mr. Sanford Hodes Benesch Friedlander Coplan &. Senior VP, Public Affairs Senior Vice President and Arnoff Volvo Trucks North America Deputy General Counsel Ryder System, Inc. Mr. Brett A. Sant Mr. Andrew Boyle VP, Safety and Risk Executive Vice President Ms. Barbara Ivanov Management Boyle transportation Director, Freight Systems Knight transportation , Inc. Washington State Department of Mr. Randy Boyles transportation Mr. Webb A. Shaw Senior Vice President, Tailored Vice President Editorial Solutions Mr. Steve A. Keppler Resources PeopleNet Executive Director Keller & Associates Commercial Vehicle Safety Mr.

5 Steve Bryan Alliance Chief Executive Officer Dr. Frank Southworth Vigillo, LLC Principal research Scientist Mr. Keith A. Klingenberg, CIC Georgia Tech School of Civil and Principal and Managing Director Environmental Engineering Ms. Cheryl Bynum TrueNorth Companies Manager, SmartWay Transport Partnership Mr. Keith Tuttle Mr. Alan Korn Founder Environmental Protection Director Vehicle Control Agency Motor Carrier Service Inc. Systems Meritor WABCO Mr. Tom Weakley Mr. Michael Conyngham Director of research Mr. Michael Kray Director of Operations International Brotherhood of Principal Planner Owner-Operator Independent Teamsters Atlanta Regional Commission drivers Association Foundation Mr.

6 Tom DiSalvi Mr. Chris McLoughlin Mr. Greer Woodruff Director of Loss Prevention Cargo Risk Manager Senior Vice President of Schneider National, Inc. Robinson Corporate Safety and Security Hunt Transport Services, Inc Mr. Chad England Ms. Jennifer Morrison Chief Executive Officer Vehicle Factors Engineer England National transportation Safety Board ACRONYMS. ATRI American transportation research Institute ATA American Trucking Associations BLS Bureau of Labor Statistics CES Current Employment Statistics CPS Current Population Survey CDL Commercial Driver 's License DOE Department of Education FMCSA Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration NAICS North American Industry Classification System OES Occupational Employment Statistics PSP Pre-employment Screening Program RAC research Advisory Committee Analysis of Truck Driver Age Demographics Across Two Decades 2014 1.

7 INTRODUCTION. Labor Force and the Trucking Industry Driver Shortage While the labor market has nearly recovered from the Great Recession, employment gaps still remain. Of the million people in the civilian labor force, million are employed and million are In addition to labor force participants, there are million additional persons not in the labor force, a figure that has grown by nearly 2 million people over the past The trucking industry is a large and important component of the labor force; there are approximately 7 million persons holding trucking-related jobs. Of those, million are employed as Truck Since 2010, a benchmark year for the end of the Great Recession, there has been steadily increasing demand for both freight services and the requisite Truck drivers needed to move goods throughout the country.

8 While labor statistics indicate that unemployed persons still number in the millions, the American Trucking Associations currently estimates the Truck Driver shortage to be 30,000 to 35,000 with a potential shortage of 240,000 drivers by Furthermore, ATRI's annual Top Industry Issues research has been monitoring the rise of the Driver Shortage issue for almost 10 years, and in 2014 the issue rose to a 2nd place ranking. Underlying Factors in the Truck Driver Shortage Several factors have helped create a significant Driver shortage. Among them are: competition within the industry;. Driver qualifications/requirements; and workforce Demographics .

9 Competition within the Industry Nearly four decades ago the trucking industry was composed of approximately 20,000. companies. Since that time a dramatic increase in the ranks of for-hire motor carriers can be traced to the industry deregulation of the 1980s, when barriers to entry decreased considerably. Today, with more than 500,000 individual companies, the trucking industry is extremely competitive. 1. September 2014 noninstitutional labor force data. Department of Labor. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Economic News Release, Table A-1. Employment status of the civilian population by sex and age. Available online at: accessed 10/20/2014.

10 2. Ibid. This is the civilian non-institutional population (persons 16 years of age or older residing in the and not active military or an inmate of a mental/penal institution) that is not participating in the labor force. 3. American Trucking Associations. American Trucking Trends 2014. Statistics are based on 2012 data. 4. Sources: American Trucking Associations (ATA) October 22, 2013 press release available online: and July 9, 2014. press release available online at: 75a3c0ebaf3b Analysis of Truck Driver Age Demographics Across Two Decades 2014 2. The heightened competition resulting from a large pool of market participants has driven the price of freight services downward, along with profit margins.