If you hit the road this summer, “Good luck finding gas.”
There aren’t enough tanker drivers to deliver it to gas stations. The job is “difficult and strenuous,” requires special training and certification, and turnover is high in the best of times.
Then the pandemic struck, and lack of work drove many to other jobs. Even before then, alcohol problems and failed drug tests were costing the industry thousands of drivers a year.
Meanwhile, gas demand is nearly all the way back to pre-pandemic levels, and could soar if cabin fever drives millions of motorists onto America’s roads and highways. And that may translate into gas stations out of gas.
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