Is it the driver who would be responsible for paying such a ticket or will the company chip in?
As for others- Yes, I would love to get respondents from all aspects of the trucking industry. Local drivers, OTR, OO's, dispatchers, etc. The...
Lady Driver- Thanks so much for your interest... I would love to chat with you about your experiences as a trucker, especially as a woman (I...
Holy Crap! :biggrin_2551:
Are you getting a petition together?
Yes, this is what I don't understand. If ya'll ARE REQUIRED to stop at certain times, than law enforcement should be doing everything in their...
You can only idle for 5 minutes before being issued a ticket? I wonder if police with nothing else to do will start patrolling truck stops with...
Why do you guys think that it is illegal? You make an excellent point that since you guys are required to stop at certain times, you should be...
I've wondered myself how farmers were going to adapt. Shoot, the prices of beer have already gone up because of farmers replacing wheat...
I think that the public generally thinks that it is the cost of dairy, wheat etc. that is driving their costs up, not other, somewhat hidden...
See, this is what is so amazing to me... The fact that pretty much everything is impacted by truck transport. Ya'll are pretty much on the...
Along similar lines... How do company drivers pay for their gas? I know that they are reimbursed somehow, so do you use a company credit card or...
I'm harmless, I promise. :biggrin_25523: Just trying to get some information out there about how hard you folks really work!
Good point.
Isn't idling even becoming "illegal" in some states?
Sorry guys and gals, noob question: Do high gas prices affect company drivers as well as owner-operators? I know that OO's bear the brunt of...
This is an ethnography on the work lives of truck drivers. As I mentioned before, truckers have a very unique occupation. They are absolutely...
I'd love to reconsider, but I'm already halfway through the program! The next part of the study involves sitting down with some 'actual' truckers...
Thanks for the warm welcome folks! I'm what's called an occupational sociologist, or at least that's what I'm training to be. These are folks...
Howdy Folks- My name is Dan Haught and I am a graduate student in Sociology at the University of Colorado. This spring, I will be...