LAS VEGAS – Retiring truck drivers have shifted the industry into a shortage.
Transportation companies have said the jobs are tough to fill because fewer younger drivers want to deal with the sacrifices that come with the job.
With his nephew as co-pilot, Jonathan Patterson is on his way to Illinois, leaving behind a wife and four kids.
Being thousands of miles away and gone for days and even weeks at a time, he said trucking can take a toll.
“It’s very tough,” he said. “That’s probably why young truckers don’t want to do it.”
Patterson said he gets homesick, but the 26-year-old said he knows it will make his family’s life better.
