Trucking

Retail Sales a Good Sign for Truckers
Overall this is a good time for trucking, Brady said, pointing to retail sales driving local and regional freight movement, low inventories, increasing manufacturing activity, and tight carrier capacity. Carriers are able to pass along high costs, namely steeper fuel prices as a result, he said.

I found two articles about the action in California that weren’t the same AP release that was everywhere. The San Jose Business Journal and the CalTrade Report. The so-called industry trade associations are denouncing the action as illegal. Yeah, it was but it made the national news.

One of the problems that truckers have is image. We’ve kicked ourselves out of so many places by being inconsiderate, trashing and disrespecting people that are nice enough to allow us to park somewhere.

I got my truck worked on yesterday and today. Minor stuff, but since I had the time I decided to see if I could get them taken care of. A warning light on my dashboard came on. According to the book it’s not major, but needs looked at. I also started hearing a whistling noise [...]

This is kind of the opposite of the previous post of Old Timers. But this was different. These men I respected. My grandfather farmed a little and boarded horses for extra income, but never had to depend on farming to feed his family. I have the utmost respect for farmers and older drivers. But [...]

The other day I had a trip that took me over 450 miles of two lane road. No interstates at all. I would much rather drive small two lane country roads than the boring interstates any day. But the pay structure the way it is and the timeliness of the job demands driving the interstate [...]