The White House’s latest idea to fix the US's supply chain issues is to put more veterans in trucks.
Half a million veterans re-entered the US workforce in January, and comes as businesses nationwide have struggled with a host of supply chain issues. Getting products from warehouses to store shelves has been complicated by the ongoing pandemic and a lack of workers in key posts at ports and other transition stations.
White House officials have promoted increasing the number of truck drivers in America as a long-term solution to the problem, and offered a host of recent training initiatives to direct job seekers to the industry.
In the administration’s “Trucking Action Plan to Strengthen America’s Workforce” released in December, officials said that veterans skills and experience make them “excellent candidates to help address these challenges and build the next generation’s trucking workforce.”
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