The Truckload Carriers Association, or short TCA, named truck driver Rodney Clay from Riverview, Florida, a Highway Angel for stopping on March 4, 2024, to help a mother and daughter when he saw that their car flipped on a busy highway in Kansas and crashed into the road median.
Read more …TCA named Norton Transport truck driver the Highway Angel of 2024
In this day and age everyone gets frustrated when searching for parking, but when you’re driving an 18-wheeler, finding a spot to take a break or park overnight can be an unnerving and daunting task. Primarily, that’s because there are about 1.5 million truck drivers on the road and at any point in time yet fewer than 400,000 available parking spots. Some industry stakeholders say the problem is not so much about enough parking and more about finding available parking spaces. Others say the ELD mandate is to blame. Addressing the issue will require taking both opinions into account. So this article aims to do just that.
Almost every item in your house or workplace was carried by truck, so it's vital to acknowledge the men and women we rely so heavily upon.
Trucks and truck drivers travel through our lives, constantly working hard to make safe, on-time deliveries.
Read more …Appreciating a Driver: The Essentiality of Truck Drivers
When Considering the US Employment, women make up 47% of the entire workforce. Astonishingly, when it comes to women in trucking the numbers seem to be minuscule in comparison. Recent trends show that the historic gender norms in trucking are fading fast, as the expansion of e-Commerce and distribution has created a boom in the labor market. With record-low unemployment, employers are having to look outside of their traditional labor pools for every role in the supply chain, especially for drivers, hence turning to women.
The Herculean task of long-haul trucking befalls drivers, with the physical and mental taxation on their bodies and minds in having to steer valuable cargo for thousands of miles in a given ride. Along with this comes the disruption of their family lives extending this load to many more lives, many times over. We have taken the time to write this article with the intention to shed some light and further insight in to this topic. We hope we can do justice as it is of utmost significance. It’s a code Red.
Read more …Trucking – A Herculean and Mental Job for Drivers
It is official, driving trucks for a living is as bad for your spine hiking with 80 plus pound rucksacks.
Well, that may be a bit of hyperbole. The studies have finally concluded that sitting for several hours a day is a detriment to the health of your back, among other body parts.
It isn’t a difficult leap to make (and for anyone who has ever driven long distances for a living, it isn’t a leap at all). I mean living a sedentary lifestyle has long been attributed to poor health, and aches/pains that should only be experienced by people at (shall we say) advanced ages.
There is nothing quite as exhilarating and liberating as the open road. There is nothing but you, your vehicle, pavement, and your favorite podcasts to keep you company. Some of us carry vehicle commander “which really just fancy term for “guy in the passenger seat,” others bring our canine friends with us.
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