Trucking Safety & Careers \u2013 Let\u2019s Get Started!<\/p>\n
At this very moment, and around the clock, coast-to-coast, trucks are on the road hauling the essentials\u2014everything the nation needs such as food, books, clothing, electronics, automobiles and medical supplies.<\/p>\n
More than 3.6 million professional truck drivers, operating more than 36 million trucks of all classes, including 3.7 million typical Class 8 trucks keep America moving forward. There are over 8.7 million people employed in all facets in the trucking industry.<\/p>\n
Trucking also plays an important role in trade exchanged between the United States and two of our largest trading partners, Canada and Mexico. Continuing to have free trade between our countries will only help our industry well into the future.<\/p>\n
But a serious shortage exists in some segments of the trucking industry. It\u2019s not a shortage of freight or equipment; it\u2019s a shortage of men and women qualified to drive trucks.<\/p>\n
The shortage is not due to a lack of interest, just basic economics \u2013 the demand for professional truck drivers is growing faster than the number of new drivers entering the field. The industry is desperate for new drivers. If you received your Commercial Driver\u2019s License (CDL) today, it\u2019s almost certain there would be a job available to you tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8171,"template":"","meta":{"content-type":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false},"categories":[],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/explorecareers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ra-employers\/8056"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/explorecareers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ra-employers"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/explorecareers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ra-employers"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/explorecareers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/explorecareers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/explorecareers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/explorecareers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/explorecareers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}