The Shortage Of Qualified Drivers Threatens The Transport Industry.

The shortage of qualified drivers threatens the intermodal industry's continued growth in Bangladesh. The challenge for intermodal transport is not only hiring enough professional drivers, but also retaining them. For many transportation service provider, attracting and retaining drivers are the biggest challenges.

                                                                          The extreme number of multi-hour delays along the intermodal chain, combined with the impersonal treatment drivers receive at some facilities, make intermodal undesirable for drivers. This problem occurs as a part of a countrywide drive against unfit vehicles and drivers without licenses.The minister said the exercise would continue until traffic accident and mishaps dropped to tolerable limits.as a result of action, Illegal backdoor channels have become a popular choice for people without driving skills to skip the required tests and acquire driving licenses for additional fees.

Brokers, usually posing as internal officers of the BRTA, constantly lurk around the Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) office in the capital’s Mirpur 13 area, looking for license-seekers who might be willing to pay some extra cash to skip the lengthy official processes. These unnecessary delays discourage drivers and throw into confusion. The nation will need to add 50,000 drivers per year for the next 10 years, according to Bangladesh Intercity Trucking Associations estimates. And only one-third of the demand for drivers stems from business growth; two-thirds of the need comes from retirements and exiting drivers.

There will continue to be strong competition from all segments of trucking for drivers. And unless we act, the intermodal industry will feel the driver shortage most.

The Transport and logistics industry is resilient and has overcome many challenges. The driver shortage is just one more hurdle to jump if intermodal transport is going to continue to grow.

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Continued Political Unrest, Transport Sector Disruption as Threat and Tactic.

Titas Transport Cargo Cleaning.

political blockade,vehicle on parking. 

For the past several years, Bangladesh has been marred by a spate of political crises, with frequent strikes, attacks and blockades preventing businesses from functioning normally, it is a system that is extremely vulnerable to disruption. Far from a mark of its strength, the secularization of logistics marks its vulnerability. It is precisely because of the potency of disruption that we have seen the assembly of this new architecture of security. The Titas transport highlights how the very material form of supply chains – the distributed nature of distributions networks – means that disruption can easily become systemic. They explain, “Systemic risks are created or magnified by the way supply chain system are reconfigured… In today’s globalized and interconnected world, any major disruption… has the potential to cascade through supply chains and permeate other systems. Bangladesh’s transport sector has suffered losses of around Tk 300 billion in last year’s political violence, Truck transport owners’ associations say.

Leaders of Cover van-Truck Owners Association and Bangladesh Road Transport Association disclosed the details in a press conference at Dhaka Reporters Unity on Thursday.

Truck set on fire

They demanded that, Trucks with import / export load shipments are moving under police protection. Following the response our Shipping Minister Shajahan Khan on Friday urged the transport owners and workers to continue their services shunning the fear of the countrywide blockade enforced . Speaking at a meeting with transport owners and workers in the capital, the minister also assured them of all sorts of cooperation from the government in plying their vehicles on roads and waterways’

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most all titas transport vehicle on the parking during blockade. 

                      

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The roots of the logistics and distribution management principles we use today.

In early 1990s in Bangladesh logistics and distribution management began to see more professional treatment, largely due to rapid increases in costs and a growing understanding of the true costs of distribution.
This professionalism in turn led to logistics and distribution management plans being made in the long term, and deliberate efforts being made to identify and enact savings. Strategies pursued included ‘lean’ processes – reductions in stock holding – and centralized distribution systems, aided by relatively new computer-aided information and control systems. 
Many companies also recognized the need for truly integrated logistics and distribution management systems around this time.

Logistics System

but now situation is being changing, supply chain and logistics functions are now seen as central to the success of the business, when they had once been considered peripheral. This change of perspective has let to substantial increases in profitability. Specifically, distribution systems were no longer considered merely burdens, but as opportunities to add value to the product at each stage, and are in fact part of the core business, not a necessary evil to be minimized and cheapened at all costs.

This leads Titas transport  today, where businesses of all sizes and descriptions are seeking logistics and distribution management partners who can keep their entire supply chain efficient, resilient, and responsive to opportunity.

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Simple solution for ending ‘driver shortage,’ survey says: Pay drivers more

Titas transport  use a wide array of tactics to find and keep drivers, but results from a recently published survey show there’s overwhelmingly one thing fleets can do to accomplish their recruiting and retention goals: Raise pay for drivers.
Nearly 80 percent of the of drivers surveyed nationwide by Titas transport Retail System said salary was the most important factor when choosing a job.

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