Truck Driving and Marijuanar0bz / Foter / CC BY Truck Driving and Pot Don’t Mix author: Robert Allen Along side Interstate 5, at a San Clemente, Ca. highway check-point, a 43 year old man, yes a United States citizen was driving a 2006 commercial vehicle. U.S. Border Patrol agents had the trucker proceed to the […]
Photo-James Robinson By Robert Allen A week ago, ten soldiers at the Fort Bragg Fairgrounds got into big rigs to begin their new careers driving a commercial vehicle after their military service ends. From fayobserver.com A $130,000 federal grant brought Johnston Community College’s trucking program an hour’s drive down Interstate 95, from Smithfield to […]
I drive around 11 hours a day, I listen to a lot of talk radio including Howard Stern, Michael Savage, and Whitley Strieber. But you can’t listen to talk radio all day, you need a mixture of things to listen to, to keep your mind stimulated. Facebook fans have voted these tunes their favorite trucking […]
Barbara Hunt, vice president of the Indiana Motor Truck Association (IMTA) claims that the new rules will make it harder to acquire drivers, the trucking industry already has a shortage of truck drivers. The newest trucker rules make the work week shorter, and hurting the carriers. The federal regulations, which took effect July 1, involve […]
Family And Friends of Deceased Driver Raymond White On the 15th of July, Raymond White’s girlfriend Cathy Rossi had not received the usual call from Raymond, a truck driver for 20 years, he always called in the morning, Cathy had been trying to contact him to no avail. Girlfriend Could Not Contact Her Trucker Boyfriend […]
Big Updates To The 2014 Model Cascadia Evolution By Freightliner The Cascadia Evolution first came out in 2013, more than 15000 of these Freightliners have been sold, Freightliner claims that this model significantly reduces the over all total cost of owning the truck. The new Evolution incorporates several frontal area updates designed to improve airflow […]
Are you ready for the newest rule to be put on truckers? The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is planning to publish a new rule that electronic on-board recorders be put in commercial vehicles. They are also called electronic logging devices to be passed this year and the requirement that all commercial drivers have them […]
This 6 axle beauty is 75 feet long, needs a special permit because it is 3 feet longer than any other rig on the road. The weight of this big rig is 45 tons (90,000 pounds), the tractor is a Kenworth T-2000 with a computer controlled 12 liter engine. The trailer holds 30 technicians along […]
(J.B. Hunt’s drug screening program clips a hair sample for them, the testing company is Arkansas Occupational Health Clinic, Brittany Jordan is the tester). A whopping 3200 drivers wishing to drive for JB Hunt were told “no way” because drugs were found in their system when their hair was tested. 1700 of these trucking applicants […]
Cab over semi truck from Freightliner Photo courtesy of MichaelBay.com This is a brand new Freightliner truck from Daimler Trucks North America, it is a 2014 Argosy cab over truck by Freightliner and will be featured in the upcoming film Transformers 4, which will be in the theaters next summer around June 27, 2014. Will […]
