MUMBAI, India — Got a truck license but can’t find a job? India needs you.

The exploding economy that is India is facing a driver shortage. And when India says shortage, it really means shortage.

"We face a 40-percent shortfall, which means we need three million more drivers," said R.K. Gulati, spokesman for the All India Motor Transport Congress, a truckers’ lobby group.

According to a report from the Agency France-Press (AFP), many fleets have up to 15 percent of their fleets sitting because they can’t get anybody to drive.

Bal Malkit Singh, a city transporter and former head of the Bombay Goods Transport Association operates over 300 trucks. He estimates 10 percent of them are at a standstill because he can’t get drivers.

According to the news agency, one of the biggest problems is that the government has raised the educational bar for truck drivers, requiring – get this — a minimum grade 10 education (or high school to the age of 15) to carry hazardous goods.

How’s that for regulatory oversight?

Even for regular freight, a driver needs to have completed school to age 13. The AFP reports that people with those qualifications are more willing to work in offices than behind the wheel of a truck.

India’s two-million-mile road network, the world’s second largest after the United States, accounts for nearly 70 percent of the country’s freight movement.

The trucker shortage is so bad that many fleet owners break the law that requires commercial vehicles to operate with two drivers so that one can rest.