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Depending on whose study you reference, the average age of an Australian truck driver is somewhere around the 47-years-old mark.
This figure would suggest that there is also a high percentage of truck drivers working within the transport industry well in excess of 50-years-old.
On the one hand, this is a positive in that the vast majority of the driver pool should theoretically have many years of driving experience and a generally speaking higher skill set that goes with it. It’s a good thing.
On the negative side, these figures could also indicate that, as the current workforce retires or moves into different vocations, there are not a significantly high enough number of younger recruits entering the industry to take their place.
We have been seeing the effect of this for some years now, indicated by the need to import overseas drivers to fill the gap.
Initiatives to make the career of truck driving more
