- Great Mileage
Tracking Apps to Review
2015-04-23
As a trucker, logging your mileage is of utmost importance because mileage is often what much
of your pay is based on. If you don't log miles, you don't get paid. Logging miles used to mean
coming home from your long trip and spending time in your logbook tracking those miles. If you
were diligent, as you were supposed to be, you did it as your trip progressed.
- On-the-Road Trucking
Fitness Rules
2015-04-02
Hey you – put down the jelly doughnut! Just because your office is mobile doesn't mean you
can't stay fit! Shuck the excuses and stay in shape – on and off the road. Drop and give me
seven!! Following these seven simple strategies can encourage great fitness results, despite all
those long, sedentary motoring hours…
- Tips to Prepare for Hours of Service
Changes
2013-05-17
As the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals prepares to issue a final decision in the American
Trucking Assns.' (ATA) case against the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA)
regarding the restart and rest break changes to the driver hours of service rules, the trucking
industry should be preparing for the impacts those changes may have on their operations.
- Inspection Blitz is Coming: Are You
Prepared?
2013-05-06
Every year the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance (CVSA) holds a 72-hour truck inspection blitz
throughout the U.S. from Canada to Mexico where they inspect approximately 14 trucks a minute or
more than 4,440 vehicles an hour over the course of three days.
- Make Tax Season Simple with Early
Preparation
2012-01-03
Tax time is just a few months off, with W-2s and 1099s due in mailboxes the end of January, and
now is the time to start preparing for that visit to the accountant. For owner-operators, this
means getting all those receipts from the past year in order and matching them to logbooks and
mileage reports for the maximum in deductions.
- A Special Thanks to Truck Drivers on
Thanksgiving
2011-11-24
If you pull onto any thruway or highway in America and within moments you will find yourself in
the presence or some sort of 18-wheeler or semi truck.Truck drivers can range from men to women,
young to old, independent drivers to company drivers and the categories go on.
- Cheating on Your
Driving Log Book
2008-02-18
CBS report truckers saying that everybody cheats on their log books
- Truck
Safety: Tips for Keeping an Accurate Log Book
2007-08-18
Tips on keeping an accurate log book.
- Accurate Log Books
Protect Truckers
2007-08-18
Logs books protect truckers from working long hours.