There are a small percentage of people that fail CDL school each and every year. The reasons why vary, but a closer look might help keep this from happening to you. Preparation is just as important as skill when it comes to CDL training and driving. How Is My Driving? We’ve all seen that placard [...]

How do truck factoring truckers balance home time with life on the road? As a trucking school graduate secures employment and sets out into the world of trucking, he/she will soon learn that a formal education as a class A driver is only the beginning. There are many twists and turns on the road to a [...]

Marriage is a major commitment that is supposed to last for life. It takes a lot of hard work, sacrifice and trust in order to make a marriage last forever, even under the best circumstances. When a marriage is strained due to a spouse who is a truck driver, this commitment can be even more [...]

Getting into the Freight factoring trucking industry is harder than one might realize. Trucking companies undertake a huge liability when they hire someone to drive their trucks. As such, they must be sure the person they are hiring is responsible, trustworthy and healthy enough for long days on the road. Finding a job in the trucking [...]

There are few people as integral to the functioning of a consumer economy as truckers. They transport goods from one place to another, allowing trade to exist between cities and states. They also play an integral role in making sure that highways are maintained and small town businesses stay afloat; without truckers needing their services, [...]

Shorepower Technologies has added its services, which lets drivers plug in to grid power instead of idling, to three truckstops: Sapp Bros Travel Center, at Exit 440 on Interstate 80 in Omaha, Neb.; Broadway Flying J, at Exit 144 on Interstate 35 in Williams, Iowa; and Shoemaker’s Shell Travel Center, at Exit 395 on I-80 [...]

More women are taking the wheel in the trucking industry. But that is also bringing up issues women can face in the job and in job training.
In Iowa we’re hearing about a lawsuit where the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission tried to sue a Cedar Rapids trucking company. Read More

When people think of the trucking industry, they almost exclusively attribute it to men. This couldn’t be farther from the truth as women in the trucking industry now number 200,000. This amouont is growing every day as more women enter the profession of trucking and seek the equal pay and benefits that their male counterparts [...]

In a commercial society, goods for sale and people to purchase those goods are required. Transportation is critical to that equation. Goods need to be moved from where they are produced to where they are to be sold. In modern times, truck drivers make this possible. Unlike other professions, however, truck drivers working in truck [...]

The freedom of the open road calls to some people and drives them to seek out a career that will put them behind the wheel of one of the nation’s many tractor-trailers. There is no shortage of companies looking to hire the best employees to take on this task and deliver freight to locations across [...]