Main cause of the growing shortage of truck drivers? Aging, she knows. “Drivers who retire due to their age are not or insufficiently monitored. This also has to do with new insights from young people entering the labor market. They no longer want to spend 60 or 70 hours a week behind the wheel. Working weeks were normal in the transport sector and freight transport, but newcomers no longer want that. That means that for one elderly driver who flows out, you now have to find two new drivers for the same job,” says Delhaas.
