Trucking

I know that sounds odd for people with “normal” jobs, but if we’re not working, we’re not getting paid. It’s good to know we have an account that pays well and wants us to work for them. The bad part is if the timing isn’t perfect, we end up sitting and waiting and possibly dead-heading [...]

I was reading the The Trucker last week and an article which I can’t find on their online version talks about how a core group of American carriers and a public safety group I’ve never heard of, wants to have mandatory speed limiters set at 68 mph. For everyone. Imagine every truck rolling down the [...]

This has no direct mention of trucking, but I thought it was still relevant. It seems China has been importing raw materials from Latin America, then shipping cheap crap back to them. Cheaper labor in China than Mexico or Latin America. Meaning, that what industry Latin America does have is going to go broke from [...]

I’ve written about the problems of allowing too many drivers, either through immigration with h1b visas or even lying recruiting to people to fill driver seats. I know I don’t make up this stuff but some people think I’m against immigrants of any kind. The same argument is used to vilify anyone and everyone on [...]

The national average diesel price is down again for the 7th week in a row from it’s high of 3.065 on 8/7. I know several drivers whose pay per mile is a flat rate and they get an added fuel surcharge per mile depending on the DOE national average. It usually takes rates a lttle [...]