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The Over The Road February issue is now online! Please click on the thumbnail to view! For quick access to our February 2022 list of recruiters, please go here.
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Well folks, my writing column days have come to an end. I have enjoyed sharing my thoughts with ‘you all’ over the past seventeen years but it’s time for me to open a new trucking chapter in my life. Some fifty-plus years ago, when my dad brought home a truck and parked it in the…
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The Over The Road January issue is now online! Please click on the thumbnail to view! For quick access to our January 2022 list of recruiters, please go here.
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“The way we spend our time defines who we are”. Jonathan Estrin With the new year around the corner, many of us make new year’s resolutions with the goal to improve something in our lives. Maybe you want to lose a few pounds or get more exercise. Historically, these are the two top goals people…
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Given the extreme changes coming to the trucking industry in 2022, it may be worthwhile to consider a strategy for approaching difficulties. Probably the best and most obvious attitude would be optimistic rather than fearful. However, optimism must be focused on the long-term outcome and not the present circumstances. For instance, being positive about KEEPING…
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When I left things off with you readers last month, I was all alone, in quarantine in Florida with Covid. The gloom setting over me was becoming all too common. I was in the routine of booking a covid test every day at a local Walgreens Pharmacy. You know you are sliding into an abyss…
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The Over The Road December issue is now online! Please click on the thumbnail to view! For quick access to our December 2021 list of recruiters, please go here.
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For those of us in the trucking industry, we are all aware of the data suggesting that crashes involving commercial trucks are overwhelmingly caused by the non-professional driver. Or, as we like to call them, the four-wheelers. There have been numerous studies about reckless behavior(s) for automobile drivers, but I recently came across a paper…