Trucking Jobs – Truck Driving Jobs

Empty Nesters are finding new lives in the trucking industry. Business men and women who have been the victim of corporate downsizing are finding new lives in the trucking industry. Even airline pilots who are tired of the stress of crowded airways are finding new lives in the trucking industry.

With new training, high tech trucks, better dispatch and more home time, employment as a professional over the road truck driver is looking better and better. Long haul trucking is changing and many of the major trucking companies are placing their hope in these changes to attract more and more new drivers. Stability is the name of the game and trucking companies want drivers that will stay and in return they are providing drivers with top of the line equipment, training and an overall better lifestyle.

For more information on becoming an over the road truck driver visit TexasTruckingInfo.com

AZCentral.com has an excellent article on how the face of the trucking industry is changing and what today’s trucking companies are doing to attract drivers.

The South Florida Sun-Sentinel reports today that trucks will be banned from the fast lane of the Florida turnpike starting February 1, 2008.  The ban will be enforced on a 40 mile stretch from the Lantana toll plaza near Lake Worth to the Golden Glades interchange in Miami-Dade County.  Commuters have been complaining about trucks getting in the way and slowing commute times on the busy highway. Truck drivers say the ban is going to create even more problems.

Visit the South Florida Sun-Sentinel to read the entire story.

From Knoxville to Nashville to Memphis. Interstate 40 has once again been selected as the best road in the nation by professional truck drivers. Tennessee has some of the best roads in the nation with great surfaces, excellent road markings and easy to follow detours when construction is underway.

Overdrive Magazine polls 700 plus truckers each year across the country and has them rate the country’s roads. The survey includes quality of roads, smoothness of the surface, road signs and markings and much more.

Visit the Chattanoogan for the complete story on Tennessee’s great roads.

Green Bay, WI. – Schneider National is reporting success with their Expanded Percent of Revenue lease program which gives the ability to Owner Operators to dispatch themselves and have increased earnings.

The new lease program allows owner operators to choose a compensation option that fits their needs which allows owner operators to maximize their time or earning potential.

Joe Fennel, an owner-operator who has driven for Schneider for over 14 years, enjoys the freedom of dispatching himself on routes he chooses. I can go online anytime, day or night, point and click and I’m on my way. There are no agents to negotiate with and there is higher income potential. I couldn’t ask for a better scenario. I like knowing my loads, where I’m taking them and what’s coming up next. It gives me the chance to manage my business the way I want to.

Visit Schneider National’s website for entire press release on this innovative new program.

Logistics Management reports that after five months Contract Freighters Inc. (CFI) has been officially renamed as Con-way Truckload. Con-way completed the $750 million purchase transaction almost 5 months ago and has been merging the two trucking companies during that time. Con-way said in a statment that Con-way Truckload is made up of 2,800 tractors, 8,000 trailers and 3,500 employees. Con-way Truckload is expected to generate $500 million in annual revenues and gives Con-way the ability to handle shipments out of west coast ports of Long Beach and Los Angles

Visit Logistics Management Online for all the details of this major trucking company merger.

Suppose you wanted to drive an over the road truck but didn’t want to spend the time in school to get your CDL. What if there was a way to skip your commercial vehicle competency exam and still be able to climb behind the wheel of a tractor trailer. Well, that is exactly what approximately 200 untrained truck drivers did.

Steven Baez, a sergeant with the Army National Guard got his hands on a stack of vouchers (Form DA-348E) that excuses drivers from taking the state of Florida commercial vehicle competency test. It seems that Mr Baez was able to sell approximately 200 of these vouchers for up to $4,300 each. Now Steven Baez is sitting behind bars and in a series of pre-dawn raids last week throughout the Miami and Dade County area, federal, state and local authorities started rounding up the illegal drivers by picking up 7 truck operators. Many more arrests are coming….

For more information on this developing story visit MiamiHerald.com