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Re: The future of work
... but what if the driver is not familiar with the route, has 100s of boxes to deliver and not enough time to figure it out. Then multiply that by 10 trucks everyday out for delivery.
Result: trucks leave the dock faster and can complete more deliveries per day with less time and km driven wasted = big $ savings.Comment
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... regardless of the argument, FedEX UK has already bought 1,000 trucks. It is going to happen no later than 2022. Competitors will be forced to follow as the fleet savings and improved efficiencies will be tremendous. What makes you think delivery truck drivers will loose their jobs?
GM has created an entire new Division called BrightDrop to manufacture a similar product in Canada.
There is no turning back to the pre-COVID way of doing things!Comment
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... in North America, there is a big shortage of drivers.
I have several customers who own trucking/ transport companies. The shortage is so bad they are asking 80 year old retired drivers to come back to work.
In Canada, the shortage of drivers can add an extra three days to the delivery of new copiers from the warehouse to the dealer.
Anyone who wants to be a truck driver has guaranteed long term employment and a high paying future.
With COVID-19, the future of work caused massive shifts in buying behaviour with many more people buying online. All those goods are usually shipped via truck.Comment
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i don't feel that is right at all.... kinda like the way they did ACA... either you signed up for it or you had to pay a penitently. All they wanted to do was force private insurance companies out of business. People weren't saving $2,500 .. in fact they had to PAY that or more for the crap insurance. Older males were paying for 'pregnancy insurance'.Comment
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I live in Canada. There is a great shortage of local and long distance and cross border drivers here. Drivers are being moved up in the vaccination priorities as they are considered essential service workers.
Employers have the absolute right to request that their employees get vaccinated. There may or may not be repercussions should they decline. For example, they may be asked to work from home full time and not come into the office.
With unionized labour, requiring vaccination passports become even more difficult to enforce.Comment
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That maybe the case in liberal Canada, but not in the US. I know a lot of actual Class A drivers and there is no shortage of drivers, line haul, short haul or delivery. What does exist do to the liberal lock-downs and policies is a shortage of fuel at a reasonable price(many independent drivers have to pay for their own fuel, places where line haul drivers can stop for the night, places where they can get meals. With the number of people doing online shopping to avoid going into stores, delivery services such as UPS Fedex and even USPS are having to lease additional vehicle but are having no trouble find drivers to put into them.Comment
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Thanks for tidying up the original post.
One tiny plumbing company in England made the news when it said all employees will be required to be vaccinated. Given the roll-out over here is targeting the elderly first those employees might be waiting months. It may have been more of a pr stunt than anything else.
A significant amount of London's healthcare workers have refused the vaccine, but they are under unionized labor and have supporters.Comment
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I think the pandemic has created a new breed of lazy losers.
In the article below many people were interviewed and they don't want things to go back to normal because they like working from their home and many are simply germ freaks. But most just don't want to go back to the office. These people are born losers.
See article below:
Covid: Anxiety about "return to normal" after pandemic
“I would hate to go back to work five days a week and lose that,” Ferguson said. “I’m just nervous about not being able to maintain those positive changes.”
Natalie Bartels in San Diego finds herself a similar situation. Bartels has been sober since she decided to partake in “dry January,” a practice where people abstain from alcohol for the first month of the year.
“I’m a person who’s all or nothing, and I decided it was just going to be nothing,” she said. “For my own health reasons and feeling better about being able to control the choices that I’m making.”
Bartels said the lack of dinners and parties during the pandemic has helped her maintain sobriety. But as re-openings draw nearer, Bartels said she is not looking forward to the expectation that folks will want to let loose.
“I’m also dreading the stereotypes that are around people not drinking,” Bartels said. “I’ve experienced only a sliver so far and on a larger scale it’ll be frustrating to explain to people why I don’t want to just grab drinks or party like we once did.”Adversity temporarily visits a strong man but stays with the weak for a lifetime.Comment
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