By Jacqui Fatka
Farm Progress
While the trucking industry is short nearly 80,000 drivers, there’s some help on its way in the recently approved bipartisan infrastructure deal, but more is needed. The Biden administration also unveiled a Truck Action Plan on Dec. 16 to offer additional guidance on addressing concerns.
To help address constraints in trucking, including insufficient truck drivers and outdated rules of the road, the bipartisan infrastructure deal recently signed by the President creates important benchmarks to bring more female drivers into the workforce and creates a pilot project allowing truck drivers between the ages of 18 and 20 to drive interstate.