Get Off The Road! Driving Schools Can Now Basically Issue CDLs To Their Own Students
4/6/13: Update added at the end of article Hot on the heels of their discussion on new driver training and how to better ensure the quality of new…
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Truckers: Highway’s Guardian Angels
Truckers know the importance of road safety. We are professionally trained to avoid accidents. Everyone knows that infamous statistic: more people die in their automobiles than in an…
5 commentsDriver Shortage or Pay Shortage?
Orin Zebest (Flickr) Driver shortage? Pay shortage? Or, maybe gas and oil prices are the cause of the transportation industry’s woes! Driver shortage or pay shortage? I’m voting…
11 commentsA History of Women in Trucking
To truly appreciate the history of women in trucking, one must go farther back than the CDL training and truck driving jobs we understand today. The word “truck”…
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New Driver Training Found To Be Lacking
So it turns out that the FMCSA needed to hear it from truckers that they shouldn’t be allowing drivers with only 6 months experience to be training the…
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Politicians Join The Hours of Service Brawl
Well, the battle over HOS service changes continues, and it looks like it’s picking up steam. Despite the appeal from the ATA to delay the new HOS regulations…
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