Truck Driving Jobs

Please excuse the title of this article, but when asked to write about my book, The Tractor Trailer Book: Practical Advice for Driving Tractor Trailers, the documentaries that Hollywood puts out about new movies came to mind. I think I've been watching the movie channel too much. Far from a Hollywood production, this book has a fairly simple design ...

By Phil Romba

Race car drivers call it a ride. Truckers call it a job. Both entail driving a vehicle, and both are becoming increasingly hard to come by in the current economic climate as companies large and small downsize to cope with the recession.

Even though finding driving jobs has become more difficult recently, company ...

by Ellen Voie

What do we know about women in trucking?

Most of us would agree that there are more women employed in the trucking industry today than in the past, but do we really have a grasp on the advances women have made in this predominantly male dominated industry?  How can we use statistical information to better un ...

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Plover, WI:  After attending truck driver training, Women In Trucking’s President, Ellen Voie, has earned her Class A Commercial Driver’s License (CDL). Voie attended the Cuyahoga Community College (Tri-C) driver-training academy in Cleveland, Ohio, for three weeks in December, and recently passed t ...

By Chett Winchell

So, you’ve had enough of working for the other guy. You believe that you have the knowledge and ability to run your own company. It seems easy enough to hang out a shingle to begin with, but where do you get started?

I have researched opening a property carrier in the state of Colorado and here are the ...

By Ellen Voie, CAE
President/CEO
Women In Trucking, Inc.,

Page through any trucking related magazine and you will see a variety of recruiting ads, each one designed to stand out from the others. Even in today’s less intense capacity environment, these ads continue to dominate many industry publications.  What makes a ...

New Plymouth, ID: Roady’s Truck Stops, the nation’s largest chain of truck stops, recently announced the addition of Bob Lee to the Roady’s Team.  Lee has been hired to head the growing network of facilities.  Currently, more than 400 retail locations in 40 states are part of the Roady’s Truck Stops www.roadystruck ...

Archeological Dig Uncovers Ancient Race of Skeleton People. --Headline from The Onion

Sometimes the facts are there but the wrong conclusion is drawn. It’s happened to two of our driver members in the past month.  I’ll summarize the scenario.

The driver has applied for a job with company ABC. The company refu ...

By Ellen Voie

While Linda Courtney was growing up, she helped her family on their farm in Montana by driving a tractor and pulling a hay wagon.  She never dreamed that she would one day attract national media attention for using the skills she learned as a young girl.  

“I always knew that when it was time to c ...

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) issued a notice indicating they have begun enforcing the state’s 5-minute idling limit for diesel-fueled commercial vehicles. CARB and local air district staffs will enforce the limit by monitoring the activity of commercial vehicles, including those with sleeper cabs. Drivers who are observed idling ...

DOTJobHistory.com Offers Commercial Drivers On-Line Access to their Employment History

DOTJobHistory has introduced a service that allows professional drivers to obtain a copy of their past five years’ employers according to Federal Government Department of Treasury records. The past employers are reported even if the employer is n ...

By Phil Romba

Nearly 50,000 truckers visited the Great American Trucking Show in Dallas last week to spy the latest models and to grab their own Careers In Gear t-shirts. Did you get yours? The tenth anniversary of the show brought 550 exhibiting companies to The Big D, where the premier of the trucker movie “ ...

By Ellen Voie
Chairwoman
Women In Trucking

"HI, I MITE BE OLD, I JUST DON'T THINK WOMEN BELONG PLAYING AROUND WHERE MEN NEED TO MAKE A LIVING. Mike"

This was an e-mail received recently from someone who feels that women should not be in the trucking industry. The writer, a male, seems to think that only men ...

USIS Commercial Services, (formerly DAC Services), performs pre-employment screening for commercial businesses. USIS services cover all screening areas. They run criminal background checks, employment verifications, social security number verifications, trucking employment history verifications, motor vehicle reports, sex offender registry checks, ...

By Kenneth E. Skaggs

Whenever I speak to a group of drivers, I always begin with this question- by a show of hands, how many of you haven’t had an accident in twenty or thirty years? I always get the same response; I few young guys laugh, as though it’s impossible. Then, a few older guys raise their hands. Then, one of them ...

By Emily Saunders 

Bolt Express is pleased to announce F.I.R.S.T which stands for First Interactive Recruiting Service Team. F.I.R.S.T was created by the Bolt Express Recruiting team to make it easier for owner operators to meet a recruiter face to face.   Bolt Express saw a need and brainstormed to come up with a ...

By Matthew Harrell

With all the attention usually given to driving under the influence of drugs and/or alcohol, most drivers neglect to pay attention to another potentially deadly threat: sleep deprivation. While many factors such as stress, side effects from medication, or excitement may cause sleep deprivation, it could be due ...

By Ellen Voie
Chairwoman-Women In Trucking

I was taking a walk recently when I saw a Honda Pilot parked in a driveway with a “for sale” sign in the window. I have been looking for an SUV, so I stopped to read the sign further. I couldn’t help but smile when I read the words, “FEMALE DRIVEN” nea ...

By James P. Lamb, USDOT/FMC Practitioner
President, DOTAuthority.com, Inc.

It’s 2008…Happy New Year! I love the New Year’s holiday… not only because it allows me to reflect on last year, but because it serves as an opportunity for us to set new goals, take on new projects, and seize new opportuniti ...

Harry S. Truman has been quoted as saying, “If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.”   His intent was to make the listener understand that when the pressures become too great, don’t persist in trying to get through it if you are unable to cope with the challenge.

I have heard this comment i ...

By James P. Lamb, USDOT/FMC Practitioner
President, DOTAuthority.com, Inc.

Remember Single State Registration ("SSR")? You know, the program that expired on December 31, 2006? Well, guess what... all of a sudden, it's baaaaaack! (Sorry, but my name is Lamb, you know). Sure, it's got a fancy new name-Unified Carrie ...

By James P. Lamb, USDOT/FMC Practitioner
President, DOTAuthority.com, Inc.

If you're a truck driver, I'll bet I know what upsets you most. Sitting in traffic? No. Price of diesel? Nope. It's not getting paid enough and not getting paid on time. In past articles, I've discussed how to make more money: get your own authority ...