In the country growing shortage of professional drivers

Young people do not want to go to the truckers, and 50-year-old drivers are not hired

On the 3rd conference "road transport: challenges and opportunities" one of the most interesting, but alarmist reports on "Trends and challenges in the labour market drivers of category "E" was made by the Director for cooperation with industry organizations CC "Business line" Alexander Lashkevich.
CC "Business lines" – one of the largest domestic carriers, which is 243 terminals (with a total area of 575 thousand m2) and a 50-warehouse 3PL in 181 cities of the country and a fleet of over 4,000 vehicles and 5000 drivers. The company serves over 3 million customers, so it can draw their own conclusions about the state of the Russian market of drivers of category "E", colloquially known as the truckers.

According to Lashkevych this market because of the deteriorating demographic situation in the country is becoming more and more immersed in a crisis situation because of the increasing competition for labor resources.

Young people do not want to go to the drivers-professionals, as its priorities are increasingly shifting toward less dangerous, time-consuming and more lucrative professions. Thus, the proportion of drivers under the age of 35 years with a category "E" does not exceed 20%.

The company's "Business lines" the highest proportion of drivers is the age group over 45 years.

In this regard, Mr. Lashkevich expressed some understanding for the reluctance of carriers to hire drivers over the age of 50 years as a potentially more hazardous due to heart attacks and strokes and other medical causes, and also has expressed bewilderment by raising the retirement age to 65 years, at least for drivers, which according to him, on the contrary, would be worth this threshold is significantly lower as a bonus to attract young people.
  
The greatest drawback of the drivers observed in Moscow, the Volga Federal district and Central Federal district, where the company employers are competing for the drivers and found a higher level of wages. On the contrary, in St. Petersburg, Urals, Siberian, southern Federal district, the candidates for the drivers competing for each vacancy.
  
According to GK "Business lines" to attract young people you need to attract into the profession of new personnel, which is necessary to ensure state support in the process of obtaining the profession, which must be introduced a program of free tuition in secondary vocational specialty "professional driver". It is also necessary to reduce the risk profession, by establishing a roadside infrastructure to provide a normal mode of work and rest of drivers. It is also necessary to rehabilitate freight market, guaranteed "white" salary, toughening of responsibility for violation of the regime of work and rest, tax benefits to students profession.

For drivers of BTS required e-learning courses "transportation legislation" and "Safety of transportation of cargoes", training in the safe transport of goods, mentoring, personal work on the analysis of errors conducted by the safety engineer of the road.
To increase the effect of the separate training is required of drivers-Amateurs and professionals. It is necessary to develop and adopt a professional standard of driver. For large TEK should be given the opportunity of obtaining a license for training drivers training plants in these companies. Students should be given a possibility to get a profession as if in debt with a further payment of earnings..