Copy of Driverz Newsletter #4

Top Stories (News)

Trucking conditions improved in December due to several factors including fleet capacity, higher freight volumes, and strong rates (link)
Fresh food is at risk due to driver shortage (link)
Trucking protests become volatile and unruly in Ottawa as drivers continue to dispute a rule that requires them to be vaccinated against Covid-19 to cross the US-Canada border (link)

The Community (Influencers & Media)

From nursing to trucking, Leah Gorham decided to switch career paths. Read about her remarkable experience on the open road (link)
With over 300,000 subscribers, female trucker and influencer, Angelica Larson, rakes in an additional $72,000 annually from her youtube channel (link)
Trucker, Navdeep Singh, lifted a driver after his truck collided and allowed him to breathe, most likely saving his life. Listen firsthand to his heroic acts of bravery (link)

Statistics & Data

Demand for transportation in the U.S. accounts for a significant portion of the U.S. economy – between $1.3 trillion and $1.8 trillion, or 9.4% of the GDP (link)
Between 2012 and 2016, the number of trucking businesses grew 15.9%, outpacing total growth across all industries (8.0 percent). This translates into an increase of 200,000 workers in the trucking industry during that time period (link)
The most common ethnicity among Professional Truck Drivers is White, which makes up 64.2% of all Professional Truck Drivers. Comparatively, there are 16.0% of the Hispanic or Latino ethnicity and 13.7% of the Black or African American ethnicity

Cool Stuff and Other News

Take a look at the 50 competitions featured in the 2022 State Truck Driving Championships Schedule (link)
WATCH: Truck driver is forced to swerve into the other lane to avoid a head-on collision with a car driving in the wrong direction
President Biden’s Two Trillion Dollar Infrastructure Bill fails to accommodate for trucking parking spots as a highway bill provision that would’ve provided nearly $1 billion in truck parking grants was removed (link)