Economics
A Good Truck Driver Is Hard to Find in Tight U.S. Job Market
- Quality Carriers offers all kinds of bonuses to employees
- Employment report forecast to show pickups in wages, payrolls
on March 26, 2015 in Gonzales, Texas.
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Getting a signing bonus is often associated with top young athletes. Now, taking a job driving a chemical truck in the U.S. can earn you a signing bonus of as much as $5,000 -- and then there are also recruiting bonuses, retention bonuses and safety bonuses.
Those are the tactics that Randy Strutz, president of Quality Carriers in Tampa, Florida, is using to fill positions as unemployment lingers near the lowest level since before the last recession. The situation is cropping up across more industries in the U.S., as businesses feel increasing pressure to offer better wages and incentives to attract workers.