Two calls this week highlight driver advocacy efforts in D.C.
Scott Grenerth with Trucking Solutions Group today Those of you who’ve read this blog with any regularity are probably well familiar with Fikes-leased owner-operator Scott Grenerth (pictured with a new...
View ArticleAbout truckin’ time: Tony Justice record in stores Dec. 6
“It’s about truckin’ time,” says Tony Justice, East Tennessee-based B&B Transport driver and the songwriter behind the upcoming “On the Road” album (I wrote about it last month here). It’s due out...
View ArticleKicking the habit: Why a blanket cell-phone ban won’t work
As if hearing the plethora of truck drivers’ objections to the prohibitions on handheld cell use in-cab while driving, minus any similar prohibition for the motoring public and given the wide problem...
View ArticleDivine intervention at its best: A truck accident in Guam
What happens when a loaded straight dump loses its brakes on a downhill run and collides head-on with a tanker truck loaded with jet fuel? Not what you might expect. Reporter Brett Kelman, writing in...
View ArticleGo Guy ‘pocket urinal’ pitchman ‘Go Cousin Vinny’
“As spring approaches,” runs the latest press release from the makers of the Go Guy pocket urinal (motto: “When there is nowhere to go, go where you are”), “more truckers will be heading out onto the...
View ArticleThe debate over fighting broker fraud
The high-profile case of fraudulent broker Kulwant Singh Gill, who last week was sentenced to 11 years in prison and ordered to pay restitution to his carrier victims, has owner-operators and industry...
View ArticleOperators pitch in to foil suicide attempt, take two
It was truckers to the rescue again Monday in Minneapolis as a suicidal man stood poised to jump, hanging onto nothing more than the outside of a chain-link fence at the edge of a 25-foot-high bridge...
View ArticleSleep apnea reg recommendations: Comments closed?
If you’ve missed the news as yet, the recommendations put forward by the joint meeting of the Motor Carrier Safety Advisory Committee and Medical Review Board to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety...
View ArticlePhoto: Face of a longtime driver damaged by sunlight
A stunning photo from the New England Journal of Medicine shows the damaging effects of ultraviolet sunlight on the left side of a 69-year-old longtime truck driver's face.
View ArticleWhere do the trucks sleep at night?
"Where Do Diggers Sleep at Night?" is the first children's book by Brianna Caplan Sayres.
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