There isn't a shortage of truck drivers -- they just don't want to drive for mega carriers anymore

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Photos of empty shelves have littered social media over the past year. And these, in part, have been blamed on a lack of truck drivers.

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But some truck drivers, as well as industry experts, dispute the fact that there is a shortage. Jason Miller, associate professor of supply-chain management at Michigan State University, told Insider that there isn't a shortage of truck drivers, just a shift in where they're working.

They don't want to drive for mega carriers anymore, he said.

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Some truckers say that they're treated badly by mega carriers who want to "pay the drivers peanuts" and don't cover the hours they can spend waiting at shippers and receivers. "You're not a name, you're a number," Gary Otterson, a 20-year trucking veteran from Alabama, said. "They want to reduce the driver to an expendable resource."

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