Amazon's trucking ambitions bump up against driver shortage, competition

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Amazon.com Inc's push to recruit big-rig contractors to haul goods across its web of warehouses is colliding with a trucker shortage as the e-commerce company moves what are expected to be record numbers of packages this holiday season.

has not kept pace with inflation, leaving "real" earnings at 70% of what they were in the 1970s, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics . Federal limits on daily working hours, the COVID-19 pandemic and other hurdles prompted many truck drivers to quit.

Amazon told Reuters it recommends a minimum contractual wage for AFP drivers, but it also encourages contractors to pay above that to find and retain talent.

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