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This has been driving up driver pay now rising five times faster than its historical average. >> actually this place here we're getting a lot of students. >> reporter: and starting next month commercial licenses will require exactly this kind of entry level training course. until now you just had to go in and pass the test. >> you know, these companies looking for new drivers, drivers coming out of schools, they should be willing to give a higher pay rate. >> hourly rate we're looking at least from 35 to 240 bucks an least from 35 to 40 bucks an hour. people are making literally over a hundred...
Drivers as well. arthel: so i'm curious many closing here, you mentioned that some people are kind of -- the retirement levels are up because they're kind of sick of the conditions. how is that changing though? i know you said that women kind of know what they're getting into on the front en, how do you change that for, i guess, more men who are saying they're done with it? how can you repair the working conditions? >> well, the companies are trying to have -- [inaudible] they're trying to get drivers home more by having more local and regional and putting the long distance loads on rail and s...
Joey: thanks, brother. keep the rain out of before i get back to georgia. secretary pete buttigieg meeting with leaders with private companies earlier this week but representatives from the rainfall and trucking industry, kind of important were not invited. here to react, co-owner an vice president of jce trucking. mike, tell us the initial reaction to getting basically snubbed from this very important meeting. >> joey, thank you for having me on again, dealing with the covid aftermath, skyrocketing cries of diesel, skyrocketing driver pay, labor shortages, overregulation, et cetera, it is mak...
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