"Hiring has become more difficult," BNSF Railway spokesperson Amy Casas told the Dallas Business Journal. "This year, BNSF expects to fill more than 3,500 hourly positions across our network in areas including our transportation, engineering, dispatching and mechanical crafts."
Drivers making longer drays are now sometimes unable to complete those moves, and drivers making shorter drays are now sometimes unable to make as many trips per day as they could before ELD implementation, said Amy Casas, a spokeswoman for the BNSF Railway unit of Berkshire Hathaway Inc.