Posted on 20-05-2008

Not Just a Job…

Filed Under ( Trucking - Health, Trucking - Industry ) by Wayne Weisser

More truckers killed on the job than any other occupation. According to the U.S. Labor Department. A total of 5,915 fatal work injuries were recorded in 2000, down 2 percent from 1999. 70 percent of them were killed in a highway collision, 2 percent by homicide. Behind trucking, rates of fatal injury were highest in [...]

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Posted on 16-05-2008

Career Path

Filed Under ( Trucking, Trucking - Jobs ) by Wayne Weisser

Dispatching - Obvious choice. There is such a small ratio of dispatchers to drivers, moving into the office and may not always be a viable path for a lot of drivers. Dispatching would also include being a freight broker agent for someone else or you get your broker’s authority and go out on your [...]

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