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Go west young man in search of work

1st August 1991, Page 20
1st August 1991
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

ews reaches the Hawk that the good old US of A is short of truckers. Employers represented by the American Trucking Associations and the Interstate Truckload Carriers Conference have called on the US immigration authorities to reclassify truck driving as an occupation for which there are not enough US citizens to fill vacancies.

Owner-drivers disagree — saying that the move is a ploy to introduce foreign drivers of "substantially lower skill at lower wages... The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association argues that carriers who pay decent wages are not experiencing a shortage of drivers.


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