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I’ve always said that my worst day trucking is better than my best day in a cubicle. That makes good days trucking incredible. Driving through Wyoming around the Elk Mountain area on I-80. It’s fall, the trees are changing and an early snow covers the ground. Pronghorn Antelope graze on the side of the road [...]

It’s not actually a bad day, just a new challenge. More like stuff happens. Driving in Montana in the middle of nowhere, I stop and get fuel, get back on the road and the truck won’t go above fifth gear. Thankfully, there’s a Volvo dealer in Missoula. After driving 60 miles at 15 miles an [...]

Every time I read anything on PATT’s website my head explodes. I can only take a little at a time, here’s my latest headache quoted from their website, this page dated from 2003 -
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New Rule Will Not Adequately Address Truck Driver Fatigue
Decades of research, both on commercial drivers and shift workers, has shown that increasing [...]

Mexican trucks with Mexican drivers hauling Mexican stuff shouldn’t be our only concern about immigrants

Northwest Indiana News: nwitimes.com - News: Crown Point firm tied to fatal crash
POLICE: Immigrant trucker with limited English caused 10 deaths in Texas, police say.

Miroslav Janusz Jozwiak, 45, a Polish national who was driving for Crown Point-based K V Trucking Inc., [...]

The “driver shortage” is still in the news.
Driver shortage bottlenecks growth
High diesel prices and the uncertain costs of meeting 2007 diesel emissions requirements shouldn’t derail the trucking industry’s current robust economic growth, but a shortage of drivers could, according to a panelist speaking at the International Trucking Show.

Uncertain costs of 2007 engines aren’t going to [...]

I wrote an email to PATT when they won the recent court decision. It was more of a rant, If I had known someone was actually going to read it and respond I would have done a better job.
Are you happy now? Now that you found a judge that agrees with you. The rules you [...]