Trucks and Truckers

July 1st, 2009

Bad News Bearers

Companies win when they are honest with their drivers

We’re continually hearing about freight being off, trucking operations laying off workers, businesses closing and firms going into bankruptcy. Even trucking companies with years of strong performance are failing. All too often, trucking companies — especially the larger ones — deliver bad news that affects their employees via email, paycheck stuffers, recorded phone message or some other impersonal means. Often,…

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July 1st, 2009

Work in Progress

Warm weather means driving through a lot of road construction

by David A. Kolman

With the high volume of traffic on roadways these days, more stress is being added to a mature infrastructure system that is in need of regular repair, rehabilitation and reconstruction. Summer is prime time for maintenance and repairs, as anyone who has tried to navigate a route without hitting construction delays can attest. One solution is to drive off hours.…

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July 1st, 2009

King of the Road

The U.S. crowns its first heavy duty Truck of the Year

By Paul Abelson

By now you may have heard that the Lonestar from International won top honors in the first Commercial Truck of the Year competition in the U.S. Europe has had a Truck of the Year award for many years. It was easy to make that distinction overseas, where truck manufacturing has long been vertically integrated. That means that not only are…

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July 1st, 2009

Hey Good Looking

This driver and his family have a beauty of a truck

Jeremy Hassevoort, Holland, Mich., Driving for 10 years

Trucking is all I know and all I ever wanted to do. My father is a driver and opened his own trucking business, Rabbit River Transport, in 1993. I started wrenching on trucks at our house when I was 14. I did it all - changing the oil, fixing lights, washing out trailers and trucks. I started driving at 18,…

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July 1st, 2009

Driven to Help

Trucker awards celebrate highway heroes

Did the FBI really have to do it? In April the law enforcement agency put out word that it saw a connection between highway killings and long-haul truckers. Sure the officials made the point that drivers are not more likely to be serial killers than those in other jobs. They were saying that in specific circumstances they looked at suspects…

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