Bloomberg or WSJ rewrites this same "trucker shortage" article every month, like clockwork. It's amazing. I've read this same article every few weeks for the last twenty years.
Indeed. And there is also a continuous shortage of farm workers, or at least workers willing to do backbreaking seasonal labor harvesting crops for substandard wages. Astonishing.
And HN reposts "programmer shortage" stuff every few weeks, too, even though there's really no shortage. There's shortage of willingness to pay a little more, but not the shortage of skill. And there will always be the shortage of willingness to pay: that's how market finds the right pricing.