ACT Research’s recently released For-Hire Trucking Index showed that driver availability has tightened to another new low point in the past three years, the fourth in a row.
ACT: Driver Availability Hits Low Point in March
Constrained Class 8 production and tight vehicle inventories are likely to limit the pace of recovery for the low driver availability, ACT officials said.
April 29, 2021
Constrained Class 8 production and tight vehicle inventories are likely to limit the pace of recovery for the low driver availability, said Tim Denoyer, ACT Research’s vice president and senior analyst.
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In March, the Driver Availability Index hit 16.7, compared with 23.6 in February.
As volumes recovered from weather-related softness in February and capacity remained very tight, the supply-demand balance rose to 68.2 in March, from 60.1 in February.”
In March, the Driver Availability Index hit 16.7, compared with 23.6 in February.
Graph: ACT Research
“In addition to the raft of constraints on driver capacity, from demographics to unemployment benefits to the FMCSA Drug & Alcohol Clearinghouse, constrained Class 8 production and tight vehicle inventories are also likely to limit the pace of recovery this year,” said Tim Denoyer, ACT Research’s vice president and senior analyst.
The ACT For-Hire Trucking Index is a monthly survey of for-hire trucking service providers. ACT Research converts responses into diffusion indexes, where the neutral or flat activity level is 50.
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