The Over The Road April issue is now online! Please click on the thumbnail to view! For quick access to our April 2025 list of recruiters, please go here.

My last few articles have been a little bit of doom and gloom. We’ve talked about a trucking recession. We’ve discussed the effect of tariffs on our industry. Finally, we discussed a potential recession in all of Canada. To find some more positive news, I did what many people do these days, and I asked…

When I was a young pup dancing through school, I was a thin scrawny smart A**. My only defense was my speed. I could outrun any bully. Any chance of going toe to toe with the likes of some of my co-pupils were thoughts of delusion. I knew better than that. However, there were times…

The unfortunate reality is that trucking companies right now seem to be filing for bankruptcy at a very high and alarming rate. The bankruptcies are not a result of American-imposed tariffs, they are a result of the past 24 months of a very slow economy. Perhaps it is a sign of poor TRUCKING management. One…

In the last two weeks I’ve been asked several times what I think about the future of trucking based on current tariffs. It’s like asking me where all the pieces will land, while still in the middle of a tornado! I’ve written about tariffs in prior articles (and PODCASTS), claiming they were ONLY brought to…

The Over The Road March issue is now online! Please click on the thumbnail to view! For quick access to our March 2025 list of recruiters, please go here.

The Over The Road February issue is now online! Please click on the thumbnail to view! For quick access to our February 2025 list of recruiters, please go here.

Every trucking company has a policy and procedure manual. Every company must have written policies to cover all the possible situations that govern a truck driver operating on public highways. I recently had a fantastic question asked of me. In trucking company policy manuals, all of them say to you, the driver, don’t speed! Obey…