[aahortwwy]

Do you know how to drive a truck? I don't. It takes time to learn. Increasing wages for truck drivers doesn't make it faster to learn how to drive a truck.

> It's supply and demand. Supply is low, increase pay and supply increases.

And demand decreases. But sometimes demand _can't_ decrease, and that's another source of shortages.

If there's not enough food to go around you can't just raise prices to solve the problem (well, you can, but it's not really an acceptable solution).

Point being, shortages are a real thing.

See also: HN's favorite topic, housing in the Bay Area.

[legulere]

There are a lot of people with a truck driving license that work in other fields. With good incentives you could get them to become tricky drivers again.