{"id":5891,"date":"2018-10-16T04:44:55","date_gmt":"2018-10-16T04:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/?p=5891"},"modified":"2018-10-25T00:51:31","modified_gmt":"2018-10-25T00:51:31","slug":"oregon%e2%80%99s-trucking-industry-seeing-shortage-of-truck-drivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/oregon%e2%80%99s-trucking-industry-seeing-shortage-of-truck-drivers\/","title":{"rendered":"Oregon\u2019s trucking industry seeing shortage of truck drivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>CLACKAMAS, OR (KPTV) &#8211; Oregon\u2019s trucking industry is suffering from a serious shortage of drivers, creating problems for companies shipping their product, but also enticing career opportunities.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>James Stanchfield, who used to work for a carpet cleaning company, recently began a new career as a truck driver at IITR Truck School in Clackamas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love to drive. I have since I was a little kid. When I get stressed or when I just want to clear my mind, I drive,\u201d said Stanchfield.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Oregon Trucking Association, there is a nationwide shortage of close to 50,000 drivers, which has local companies competing for a limited resource.<\/p>\n<p>Stanchfield, for instance, got a job offer before he even completed his four-week course at IITR.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe get calls daily on people needing drivers. Companies I never thought would hire entry level drivers are now hiring them,\u201d said Amanda Watson, IITR\u2019s School Director.<\/p>\n<p>According to the OTA, trucks haul 70 percent of the nation\u2019s freight, and close to 80 percent of the freight in Oregon.<\/p>\n<p>A shortage of drivers means costs go up for companies shipping their products, and those costs are passed down to consumers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverything they touch, everything they buy, everything they need, and everything they use is on a truck at some point,\u201d said Jana Jarvis, president of the Oregon Trucking Association.<\/p>\n<p>But the shortage of drivers turned into an opportunity for people like Stanchfield, who can step into a new job starting at between $19 and $20 per hour.<\/p>\n<p>Call or\u00a0<a href=\"m.me\/RightNowLoads?ref=Code%20Email\" target=\"_blank\">Click<\/a> to get 50% OFF for the First Month<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/Rightnowloads.com\">Rightnowloads.com<br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightnowloads.com\/\"><\/a><a href=\"Rightnowloads.com\"><\/a>24\/7 Dispatching Service 888-852-4238<br \/>\n247support@rightnowloads.com<\/p>\n<p><em>Source:https:\/\/www.kptv.com\/<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CLACKAMAS, OR (KPTV) &#8211; Oregon\u2019s trucking industry is suffering from a serious shortage of drivers, creating problems for companies shipping their product, but also enticing career opportunities. James Stanchfield, who used to work for a carpet cleaning company, recently began a new career as a truck driver at IITR Truck School in Clackamas. \u201cI love [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5771,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5891"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5891"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5930,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5891\/revisions\/5930"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}