CONYERS, Georgia – If you can’t find what you want at your local supermarket, possibly because there are enough truck drivers to get there.
Richard Elliot of Channel 2 visited Rockdale County on Thursday, where a new truck hopes to exercise more drivers and get them off the road.
There is a shortage of truck drivers even before the COVID-19 pandemic began. Many states identify these drivers as an essential staff for moving goods across the country.
According to statistics from the trucking industry, trucks deliver 71% of everything we buy in each and every store we visit, adding groceries.
“We have 8.2 million authorized drivers in Georgia. Only 362,000 of them are vehicle drivers,” said Spencer Moore of the Georgia Department of Driver Services.
That’s why Gov. Brian Kemp and other government officials traveled to Conyers on Thursday to cut the ribbon at an education academy from the driving force of a new truck with the logo.
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It’s a school to teach other people how to take care of big machines on the road.
Brad Barber founded the Georgia Driving Academy more than 20 years ago. The Conyers will be the most important school education place in the state and the first on the Atlanta metro.
Barber said food shortages and other disruptions to the source chain, the pandemic would possibly be directly similar to the shortage of truck drivers. That’s why, he says, it’s so important to rent new drivers.
“The need for drivers will become even more critical as we emerge from this pandemic. We have to fill those shelves, and the way to do it is through the drivers,” Barber said.
“One of the first calls I won when this pandemic struck a call from Brad Barber reminding me of the importance of the CDL network in overcoming this crisis,” Moore said.
The new Conyers Academy are already new truckers.
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