80,000 MORE DRIVERS? OR JUST 18 MINUTES? | Brake Check
For years, trucking has been told it has a driver shortage. But what if the bigger problem isn't how many drivers we have? What if we're wasting the ones already here? Research led by Dr. David Correll at MIT FreightLab found long-haul drivers averaged roughly 6.5 hours of actual driving in an available 11-hour driving window. When Correll compared utilization with the industry's then-claim of an 80,000-driver shortage, the math produced a wild alternative: Roughly 18 more productive minutes per existing driver per day could theoretically create comparable additional capacity, Not 18 more…
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