Be an Expert!

References? Website?

 

How much you going to pay us? Or do you expect to get your money and leave the drivers high and dry? After all we know that's what you do for a living so why shouldn't you pay for the information in the profession we do for a living?

We are more than happy to help one another on this board because we choose to do that on our own. We will help one another with no problem, but I have a problem of you taking that knowledge and turning it around to make a dime. You have nothing to offer and you would be nowhere without someone with experience feeding you the information you need. The best you can do, and the most I hope you give, is to reference this site and be on with it. How would you feel if we came to you asking how to write a book?

 

I am an expert in bovine feces identification.

 

"Ooooooh an Expert! A Guru of Gears! The Doctor of Driving! The Alpha and Omega of Asphalt! Be the next Kevin Rutherford!!"

(Not getting political, just making a statement)

One of the problems that the goobermint has is that they have all of these "experts" around. Went to college for Business Administration, but you get a job in the Department of Transportation. What the heck do you know about transportation unless you were behind the wheel? "Well, I'll hire an expert." Hmmm...Jack drive a Pepsi truck for 6 months, he's my new expert! So, you're basing new regulation proposals off of feedback that you got from someone who never learned how to work a logbook? Idiot.

They made some exemptions to that 30 minute break rule for certain OSOW loads. Why? Last summer, we were running blades from GrandForks,ND to GardenCity,KS. Once we hit Lexington,NE, it was all two lane. They routed every oversize load around down a 2 lane road across 2 states. 2 lanes, no shoulder. Where do you go when you have to pull off the road to take a 30 minute break when you are pulling a superload down a 2 lane? I wonder who the "expert" drove for that reccommended the whole 30 minute break thing? Probably some city driver that gets paid by the hour.

I am curious tho...how do you suppose that OP, pencil pusher extraordinare, is going to identify and establish that the person that has emailed him is actually even a real driver, let alone an expert? What the heck is an "expert" anyway? I think I need a definition.

 

A bit of serious advice to you the original poster.

1 - there are no experts in this industry, like others (IT for example) this is a HUGE industry and it is impossible to be one resource for your compilation of stories or "facts" because everyone sees it differently and we all do vastly different work.

2 - as a journalist, you know or should if you are credible if you want to actually write something coherent, concise and informative, you must experience it first hand or close to it. For you, a journalist, you have to understand being embedded isn't the same as holding the weapon and being in combat.

3 - there is no one way or another to teach drivers experience or for that matter give them enough info to make an informed decision. TOO many times people try to get into this industry to save their butts from fill in the blank that happened in their life and they can't recover from it through normal means. TOO many times people don't quite understand the reality of this work nor want to, because as the sign says "make big bucks, become a truck driver" is all they see.

 

http://projects.aljazeera.com/2015/06/longhaul-trucking/

There's the article.

 

I asked the OP for references or a link because I recall other similar requests here @TTR that all seemed to go nowhere. I'm not giving out my email address (if I email him that's exactly what I'm doing). Is the request for information legitimate? I don't know; I have my doubts. A writer for trucking schools / journalist should know that there are already a lot of resources for his query: social media, blogs, websites, books, magazines where he can pick up anecdotes. I Googled his name. Didn't get anything definitive, but I'm willing to wait for his reply.

 

A writer who can't find the @ symbol?

 

isn't that Aljazeeraa the terrorist paper??

do we wanna give the terrorists more than what they already know...??

 

I am leery of gmail addy's. I know there are legitimate people that use gmail but I have to say EVERY internet scam I have seen or been approached with has involved g addy's. To the OP if you are legit I hope you have a method of weeding out wannabe truckers from the true career professionals.