To support its membership, NRMCA recently completed a landmark, large scale project aimed at meeting the ready mixed concrete industry’s challenges in hiring and retaining mixer truck drivers. The result, the release of the first annual NRMCA Mixer Driver Recruitment and Retention Survey, identifies key industry trends as well as provides insight for possible areas of change to facilitate a high quality, stable mixer driver workforce.

The survey examined the state of the mixer driver employment pool from January 1, 2014 through December 31, 2014. It is the first comprehensive study of this commercially licensed driver segment. The resulting data reflects 27% of the mixer driver pool or 19,024 of NRMCA’s estimated 2014 total of 70,000. NRMCA also estimates the total industry population at approximately 125,000 employees; mixer drivers are estimated to be 56% of that total. The 21-question survey’s response rate was 97%.

The survey’s Executive Summary and NRMCA members’ unabridged report can be accessed from NRMCA’s Web site. For more information, contact Eileen Dickson at 240-485-1164 or edickson@nrmca.org.