No there wasn't. What you had was a ton of jobs in fracking driving water trucks but that is no longer the case. It's not because of the virus either.
Yes there was. Tens of thousands of jobs, and not driving water trucks. You have no idea WTF you're talking about.
The driver shortage stretches back a quarter century, and lately a run-up in freight demand, staggeringly high turnover rates and waves of baby boomer retirements are compounding the problem.
It's not like these folks are making horseshoes. Trucking is an absolutely essential, critical industry to the nation, to everybody in it.
Todd Spencer, president, Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association
The American Trucking Associations figures companies need about 60,000 drivers, a number that could top 100,000 in just a few years.
The trucking industry has faced a shortage of drivers for years, but the problem is compounded now with baby boomer retirements, increased freight demands and a high turnover rate.
www.npr.org
There you go. You were hiring people that had to rely on food stamps. All the same, if they are working a job like this even part time they were getting very little in food stamps so you are full of crap.
I'm just telling you what people in the industries told me, and again, confirmed by a friend of mine. These people live three, four or five in a household. They collect their food stamps and use part of them for eating and sell the rest. When I was in line at the grocery store, several times I was approached by these people asking me for cash in exchange for their food stamps. They would use 25 bucks in food stamps to pay for your groceries, and at the end of the line, you would give them 20 bucks in exchange for those groceries. They turned their card into cash, and you got 25 dollars of your groceries 5 dollars cheaper.
A former coworker of mine had a wife that worked at a convenience store. One day they were discussing how hard it is to make ends meet at times. Her coworker advised to do what she did. She went to welfare and reported her husband had left her with the house and the kids. They gave her HUD, they showered her with food stamps and other public assistance. The problem with that? The husband never went anywhere. He still lived at home. In fact he worked at the GM plant making big bucks with great benefits. But welfare doesn't investigate any of this. You ask--they give no questions asked.