Lobbyist for truckers on the 'driver shortage': 'If the job that you're offering sucks, is the solut

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solution really go find more suckers, or should you improve the job?’

A bipartisan group of 60-plus U.S. lawmakers is generating headlines thanks to their letter on Wednesday that sounds an alarm about a “nationwide truck driver shortage” and calls for the Labor Department to fast-track grants for unemployed Americans who want training to become truckers.

Todd Spencer, head of a trade association for independent truckers, has heard this kind of pitch before, and he’s not having it.

“What they’re proposing here is using tax dollars to provide training to people that realistically will not pursue this as a career. It will be something that they will try, and many will burn out quick,” the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association’s president told MarketWatch in an interview.

“If you’re going to use tax dollars — somebody else’s money — to make an investment in somebody, you want it to be an investment that pays off long term, and this simply won’t. To use words others might, this is little more than corporate welfare.”

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