Posted: Wednesday, March 13th, in News
If you’ve ever felt the pull of the open road, this is an excellent time to consider a truck-driving career. Trucking added the most jobs of any transportation sector in February 2013, increasing its employment by 5,600 positions, according to the U.S. Labor Department.
“There is no unemployment in truck driving. In fact, there’s a shortage of drivers,” said Ed Tanksley, general manager of Katlaw Driving Schools in Austell. “Trucking slowed down at the start of the recession, but
Posted: Wednesday, March 6th, in Trucking News
The trucking industry emerged unscathed from the House last month, where lawmakers opted for a funding stream that limited tax increases to unleaded gas. But Sen. Dick Mazza, chairman of the Senate Transportation Committee, said the tractor-trailers hauling freight share responsibility for the Vermont roads on which they travel. His committee is poised to ratchet up taxes on diesel by 2 cents this year and another 2 cents in 2014.
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Posted: Monday, November 19th, in News
GRANDVIEW, Wash. -- If you ever get nervous driving past a semi-truck, a high-tech web of gadgets could keep you safe.
You think your job is stressful? Try hauling a tractor-trailer across the state on little sleep.
"I want to protect my life just as much as anyone else, so I'm going to make sure to take care of priority number one," says truck driver Chris Foster.
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Posted: Saturday, November 17th, in News
SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – With companies like Hostess, Campbell’s, and Comcast closing down, some workers are now applying for jobs for the first time in decades.
One industry that’s booming is truck driving, a career that’s attracting young and old from all walks of life.
It’s been an emotional roller coaster for Roy Douglas, who lost his leg to diabetes and was forced out of his home.
“I sleep on my street in my van,” said Douglas.
All within the last two years, he’s has been trying
Posted: Tuesday, November 6th, in News
Retailers and grocery stores are among companies increasingly using dedicated-fleet services as a shortage of drivers constrains U.S. trucking capacity while the economy heals.
J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc. (JBHT) and Werner Enterprises Inc. (WERN) are among carriers benefiting from an “accelerating trend” that’s helping to buoy the trucking industry, according to John Larkin, managing director in Baltimore at Stifel Nicolaus & Co. Dedicated-fleet services -- provided by a carrier that allocates a fleet of trucks to specific customers -- are “in vogue” because shippers want
Posted: Monday, November 5th, in News
There have been numerous occasions when I’ve been having coffee with other drivers and the conversation turned to safe driving. Trucker after trucker would try to top one another with their tally of miles or years driven without an incident.
It truly amazes me when I encounter a driver who has a million or more miles or 25 plus years of driving accident-free. These are outstanding accomplishments.
But aside from truckers sharing stories of their safety records — and let’s be honest, truckers
Posted: Wednesday, October 31st, in Trucking News
LINCOLN, Neb.—The parents of a couple who died with their children in a fiery chain-reaction accident in western Nebraska have filed a wrongful death lawsuit faulting three truck drivers and the transportation companies that employed them.
One of the drivers died in the September accident and another is facing manslaughter charges. The lawsuit alleges that truck driver, Josef Slezak, had been on the road for too long.
The lawsuit was filed late Monday in U.S. District Court of Nebraska by the parents
Posted: Friday, October 19th, in Trucking News
Every day, armies of cargo trucks rumble across Texas highways. Trucks traveling through the state with especially heavy loads are required to get a special permit as well as route instructions from the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles Motor Carrier Division (MCD).
Seems like a routine service, except that customer demand for permits from the MCD has skyrocketed while the division’s resources for fielding the permits has not.
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Posted: Thursday, October 11th, in Trucking News
In the months after Doug Robinson started driving a truck, he noticed his clothes were increasingly more snug-fitting. He was already overweight but soon realized that spending up to 11 hours behind the wheel, frequently eating fast food and not exercising was a poor combination.
When his employer, U.S. Xpress, took part in a weight-loss challenge sponsored by the Truckload Carriers Association, the 321-pound, 6-foot-1-inch Robinson signed up.
So far, he's about 40 pounds into his goal of dropping 100. His truck's
Posted: Thursday, October 11th, in News
Do you know about right of passage on the road? Driving is a very difficult profession in the world because it has no schedule and timing. Most of drivers perform 24 hours duties due to long travelling. Therefore they don’t get more chance to take rest during travelling process. Sometime accidents and injuries occur due to this problem. Therefore each driver should have information about the rights of passage on the road. How to drive safely? How to escape from
