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I’m tired of reading about the “driver shortage”, but I just wrote about freight slowing down and now I see this which is really only a press release from the ATA who is the industry’s mouthpiece and has proven they don’t give a rat’s butt about drivers. If there is a freight slow down (for [...]

Winter is notoriously slow for freight, but it should be picking up by now. We’re doing okay but, not great.
Group Reports Drop in Trucking Shipments

By BRAD FOSS
AP Business Writer
© 2006 The Associated Press
WASHINGTON— U.S. trucking industry shipments declined in February for the first time in five months, a trade group said Tuesday.
The American [...]

I mentioned in Part I how companies take advantage of their recruits fresh out of school, now we see one of the biggest scams companies are getting away with now to keep their drivers chained and broke.
Dreaming of being an owner-operator. by Timothy D. BradyIn this trucker’s opinion, there really isn’t a driver shortage—it’s a [...]

Have I ever mentioned I absolutely love my job? I’m pretty sure I have and I’m pretty happy with who I’m hauling for at the moment. After hauling slot machines into New Brunswick Canada we are at our Maine office before we pick up a load in Mass. Tomorrow we are going to use the [...]

For the last couple of weeks I’ve had this train of thought in my head, it’s become so long I’ve split it into three separate posts. At the end you’ll probably think that train derailed into a horrible wreck, but here it goes.
Believe it or not, I haven’t been driving for that long. Back in [...]

Sorry, I just didn’t know what else to call this -
Fatal crashes prompt concern over truckersby Gary EmerlingTHE WASHINGTON TIMESMarch 9, 2006
Two fatal accidents in the past two weeks involving area motorists
slamming into parked tractor-trailers have renewed safety concerns
about the commercial-trucking industry.
The accident Monday morning in which a Temple Hills motorist was killed
on the [...]