Category: Driver Management Resource Center

ATA: Driver turnover ticks up but still at low levels

Trade group thinks increase in turnover rate during the first quarter this year may indicate a “tightening” in the supply of truck drivers.

According to data tracking by the American Trucking Associations (ATA), the turnover rate for drivers at U.S. TL fleets increased slightly in the first quarter this year while remaining at what the group called “historically low levels.”

In the first three months of the year, the trade group said the annualized turnover rate at large TL fleets – those with annual revenues greater than $30 million – rose three percentage points to 74%.

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Drivers: Don’t be fooled by your windows

Many truck drivers still aren’t taking the proper precautions against UV rays, because they believe they can’t penetrate side window glass. Sometimes they’re right but sometimes they’re wrong.

Truck driver Bill McElligott may have the world’s most famous left side of a face.

Five years ago his photo was featured in the New England Journal of Medicine, accompanying a story about Unilateral Dermatoheliosis – damage to skin on half of his face caused by ultraviolet (UV) rays from the sun.

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Drivers: Don’t be fooled by your windows

Many truck drivers still aren’t taking the proper precautions against UV rays, because they believe they can’t penetrate side window glass. Sometimes they’re right but sometimes they’re wrong.

Truck driver Bill McElligott may have the world’s most famous left side of a face.

Five years ago his photo was featured in the New England Journal of Medicine, accompanying a story about Unilateral Dermatoheliosis – damage to skin on half of his face caused by ultraviolet (UV) rays from the sun.

read more