It seems that the driver was shortened for a while due to the deterioration of the load due to the corona evil, but it seems that it has become more serious."I am recruiting on the recruitment site, but there is no response at all."Regarding the current situation where drivers cannot be secured, the transportation business operators in the Tokyo metropolitan area mourn this.

Of the trucks that have only a dozen trucks at the company, they say that they are playing because there are no rider.The recruitment advertisement is issued every month, and the cost is one million yen per year.However, "I couldn't even hire one person last year, but I couldn't even interview."It is said that only time has passed, without being able to replenish the driver to quit."Even if you are playing, it will cost you to maintain trucks," so the company decided to sell vehicles."If the situation that cannot be adopted as it is, the business will not be able to continue," he said.

On the other hand, the carrier in Chiba Prefecture, which is working on working hours management, is also affected by the labor shortage.The company is currently working on reducing working hours for 2024, where overtime work has an upper limit."It is essential to increase the number of staff to protect working hours, but the driver does not gather, so it cannot start reducing working hours.""If this is the case, there is a risk that it will not be in time by 2024 and will lead to an existing driver leaving."

It has been pointed out that long working hours are accelerating the labor shortage of the industry, and it is essential to improve it, but it is not not enough to improve if the personnel to improve are not improved.

The improvement does not progress because the human resources cannot be secured, and the improvement does not progress, so the burden on existing drivers increases and quit.The same thing is repeated because the hole that quit is not possible because it cannot be replenished.Although this vicious cycle must be avoided, the current situation is concerned that the number of carriers who will abandon business continuity due to labor shortages will increase in the future.