ST. LOUIS - The long wait for deliveries of goods to your home and business since COVID-19 struck is still being felt with no end in sight.
The trucking industry shortage is part of the problem and it is the reason new truck driving schools are popping up across the U.S.
Roadmaster saw a need to start opening more schools, including right here in St. Louis.
"The first week is classroom, the second week is on the pad driving trucks around on a closed course, so it is nice and safe and then once you get comfortable with that we move you out on the road and four weeks later you are off and running with a new career," explained Brad Ball, Roadmaster Drivers School president.
A big reason for the shortage happened when the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration implemented the drug and alcohol clearing house. This gives employers, state driving agencies and law enforcement personnel information about CDL driver violations, making the nation's roads safer but in turn it eliminated thousands of drivers.
"That wiped out about 70,000 drivers. Also when COVID hit, drivers that were nearing retirement took early leave because they didn't want to be exposing themselves on the road, so we lost a lot of drivers," Ball said.
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