Geoarch
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- Steve
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- 2024 JTR, Bright White AT; 2022 JTR MT (traded)
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- geoarchaeologist (retired)
That's seems to be the case here in the West as well. Not much we can do about it, but at least we haven't yet paid for it. The dealers, and I'm not sympathetic to dealers, pay for it when it's built, so you'd think the dealers would get together and do something, although you can't clone drivers out of thin air. I was a Class A driver in my youth, and the coursework was 40 hours. It's now 240 hours with 40 hours of drive time, so that might be part of it. Plus, unless you're in a union shop, the pay isn't that great, although it's improved over the last year. At nearly five months, it doesn't bother me as much.Seeing yours and many of the other posts here and there about these things suggests to me that FCA is struggling to get things shipped. Like lack of trucks, lack of DRIVERS, train issues, once it gets to the destination for the train, no drivers for the trucks at that end and so on.
My dealer said that they've had some arrive a day after getting to the yard at KC, and he's had trucks sitting in KC for almost a month waiting for a truck ride to Des Moines.