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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Safety is a best policy in trucking profession because it prevents driver and truck from any damage. Most of trucking companies provide sufficient information to drivers related to traffic rules and regulation. It is a real fact that very few companies provide information about safety regulations to drivers. Therefore this condition leads to several accidents [...]

Do you know about factoring? It is a short term management of cash in advance. This cash is provided by the factoring companies to business related people. What is the objective of factoring? The main objective of factoring is to make ensure fast flow of cash to meet the challenges of business life. Therefore you [...]

Factoring is the arrangement of cash in advance. In factoring service you can sell your invoices to company to make ensure the fast flow of cash. Factoring service is great for people who are doing business. Most of business related people experience the same problem and that is the poor flow of cash. Customers don’t [...]

WASHINGTON — The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has granted operating authority to the eighth participant in the cross-border demonstration project. The addition of GCC Transportes will triple the number of trucks and double the number of drivers approved for the pilot project, which has two more years to run. Read Full Article Here