Working with Filth

I’ve been a truck driver for many years and I take pride in what I do. Like some professional truckers that clean up their “rides”, add lights, special mudflaps, lug nut covers, etc., to the truck so everyone would notice. Then there are those that keep a clean truck without all the extra and say

Trucker Shortage

For the past year or so, the trucking industry has been going through what some folks say a shortage of qualified drivers. Statistics show by 2020, the industry will be down 50,000 drivers as the older driver retire and milennials are not interested, even more by 2025. I recently posted to Facebook a question that

Truck drivers awarded $6 million in wage theft suit

A manager may also be held personally responsible for misclassifying drivers in what has been called an “unprecedented decision.” By Ashley – January 11, 2019 A group of California port truck drivers were awarded a multi-million dollar settlement as part of an employment misclassification lawsuit. This week, a group of 24 truck drivers employees by

New York ceases ELD enforcement in wake of OOIDA lawsuit

By Jami Jones, Land Line managing editor |1/4/2019 In light of the state of New York’s failure to adopt ELD rules into its own state law, commercial vehicle enforcement of the electronic logging mandate in New York is on hold. The move comes following the filing of a lawsuit by the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association

Cold Shoulder

Big trucks can be seen traveling through small towns as well as the big cities. For the most part, they are welcomed, at least until that one driver does something to ruin it for all. Now, the small to medium towns or cities say, “We welcome big rigs as long as they drop off our

FMCSA grants CRST exemption request for student drivers By Mark Schremmer, Land Line associate editor | Friday, October 19, 2018

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration announced on Friday, Oct. 19 that it renewed an exemption for CRST Expedited that allows the Cedar Rapids, Iowa-based trucking company to have student drivers run team with a commercial driver’s license holder. Current regulations require a CDL holder with the proper class and endorsements to be seated in

Do truckers pay enough for highways? White House suggests not

BUSINESS James Jaillet|February 27, 2018 A report issued last week by the White House reiterates the Trump Administration’s stance that tolling should be a prime mechanism for boosting highway funding. The report also says that the administration doesn’t think trucking pays enough in taxes to offset “the negative externalities [trucks] generate” relative to highway conditions,

FMCSA wants to track what truckers do in their personal vehicles

Steve Wilcox about 19 hours ago The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has filed a request to investigate what CDL truck and bus drivers do during their home time. Specifically, the agency aims to study the effects of “excessive commuting” between a drivers home and work terminal. If the request for the study is

Hooked Up

There’s nothing more embarrassing than to have your truck on the hook! Some say it’s no big deal, but for me, it’s embarrassing.  I recently left home to take a load to Lynchburg, VA when my truck started making a weird knocking noise. My truck started losing power and the noise got louder. I was

Time to Say Goodbye

I’m coming up on 23 years as a professional truck driver. 23 years!! Wow, never thought that I would be doing this for that long.  My initial plans were to drive a truck for 2-3 years then open my own trucking company. Well, needless to say, that didn’t happen. I thought about it for a