The terms "shortage" and "surplus" are usually meaningless for most economic situations. Generally, your chosen price determines how much you get (unless you s

The terms "shortage" and "surplus" are usually meaningless for most economic situations. Generally, your chosen price determines how much you get (unless you set your price at 0, where you get nothing, OR if you set your price to infinity, where there literally doesn't exist 1 more of the thing you're talking about). So in this context, there's really no shortage because all you have to do is raise the price you pay truckers and it's pretty much guaranteed that retired truckers and others with CDL licenses start putting their hands up and saying yes to that job.