There is no data to support that narrative. It may be hard to get drivers, but unemployment money isn't the cause.
https://www.bls.gov/charts/employmen...yment-rate.htm
We're 1.7% off where we were when covid hit, at 5.3% vs 14.8% at peak covid.
Even in Texas the state is within 0.7% of the national average:
https://gov.texas.gov/es/travel-texa...over-the-month
I don't know why "you fired/furloughed/etc them, so they went somewhere else and stayed there" is so hard for people to accept. Just because people don't want to work the jobs you come into contact with doesn't mean they aren't working.