EL PASO, TX – A Texas man was recently arrested when an Oregon State Police trooper found marijuana plants, hashish, and a kit used for falsifying urine tests during a check of the man's commercial truck, according to The StatesmanJournal.com.
Read More →COLUMBUS, GA – Truck driver Eric Carter of Columbus has been honored by FedEx Ground for achieving 10 years of safe driving without a preventable accident, according to The Ledger-Enquirer.
Read More →ANN ARBOR, MI – Over the company's 25-year history, more than 1,280 Con-way Freight driver sales representatives have reached the 1-million-mile safe driving milestone, while more than 90 have driven 2 million miles accident-free.
Read More →Tough times have pushed many drivers who had been on company payrolls out to compete for cargo business with the nation's independent owner-operator drivers.
Read More →Study shows that 779 trucking industry deaths out of 4,306 were results of lung cancer.
Read More →CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe has announced a new pilot initiative to train displaced workers and other eligible unemployed Arkansans as truck drivers.
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Slip seating means rotating drivers through trucks as vehicles are available, rather than assigning a specific driver to a specific unit. In some cases, it can be a public relations as well as financial advantage.
Read More →BAKERSFIELD, CA – On April 1, truck drivers hit their brakes over high gas prices. With diesel prices soaring, truckers said gas prices have to come down or the price to haul a load needs to go up.
Read More →Small groups of truckers across the U.S. shut down their rigs on April 1, in an effort to protest the skyrocketing price of diesel.
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