i have thought of that juice, i will have to if i cant find an aviation job, but no way i'd consider greyhound, no matter what they paid me

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Gosh, if only there was some way to tell the Regional Airline Association and Congress about this crazy plan the trucking industry has. Who would have thought that forcing concessions on your labor group would hurt your labor prospects? Apparently not the geniuses of airline management.

Its official; the trucking industry has more brain power at the top than the airlines do.... well, at least the regionals. I didn't see trucking managment moan at length about repealing laws. They saw a labor shortage impact their bottom line-and they enacted measures to attract labor. Is there any way this industry can poach some of these trucking management folks?

You guys need to do some research with real truckers before making any career changes. Trucking is HARD work, doesn't pay all that well, either. A friend does a 4 and 1/2 days trip out of the SE to LA every week. You sleep in the sleeper get a shower once a day, maybe, and spend time waiting to load without pay. Turnover is high and driver shortages have existed for decades with small pay raises when the problem becomes unmanageable.

Think again.

GF

What GF just said. Anyone who thinks trucking is for them needs to spend the day at a busy truck stop in the deep south.

You all need to quit your whining, the regional flying gig isn't bad. BTW, I make 6 figures on 14th year CA pay at a regional, with 14+ days off a month.

Nobody here is suggesting leaving the regional for a truck job. Where you getting that? The point of the thread is to compare regional airlines pilot shortage with trucking companies driver shortage and how there are very close similarities as to what is creating the shortage.

Agreed. However; <$30,000/yr to start is a bad gig.

I do 4 day trips most weeks...

I get a shower once a day at a questionable hotel.

And I definitely do this one all the time.

Only one shower a day, I don't know how people live like that.

I don't know if it's just me, but there seem to be more and more stickers on the back of truck trailers saying "Our drivers make $0.XX / mile!" Never used to see that. (Of course, possibly just a cover for the wait-to-load-for-free gigs)

Also saw a billboard the other day for some trucking company advertising "Honey, I'm home weekends!"

The airline industry might take a hint from these guys.

Ha.......maybe underneath the "Operated By xxx Regional Airline" they could paint "We're Hiring!!! Come be a Pilot!!!" on the fuselage