A lot of immigrants when arriving in USA choose truck driver job as a starting point to build a career. There is a reason for that:
it is quite easy to get a truck driving license
it doesn’t require huge experience to get a salary of experienced truck driver
there is a constant driver shortage on the market
If Mr. Trump do what he announced in terms of immigration policy and bans people to arrive to USA in the same numbers they used to be this will have direct impact to even worsen truck driver shortage numbers and we will see existing salaries going up at accelerated growth rates.
ELD Mandate Could Be Postponed
Also one of the bih changes announced during last mandate of the existing government and I don’t think this administration is going to pursue the same deadlines like this administration wanted.
Reason I think this is going to happen is that introducing ELD mandate will immediately lead to even more drivers shortage. Simply, in my opinion a lot of trucking companies operating class A trucks are not 100% following Log Book rules at this moment. We can argue about percentage of the companies behaving like that but in my opinion there is some reasonable reasons why it is hard for them to follow those rules.
