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âUberization of Truckingâ reality more complicated than the hype
âUberizedâ tech start-ups in load matching may be âmissing the complexity of most freight moves and will lose a lot in the translation because of that.â âJohn Larkin of Stifel
November 16, 2015
Channel 19
Friday round-up: Small-fleet struggles hit the mainstream, apnea âtwilight zoneâ the local paper
A local paper in Minnesota gets the apnea issue more or less right. And: To adapt or not to adapt â the Wall Street Journal paints small-carrier woes with broad brush, with mixed results.
September 25, 2015
Channel 19
Strong voices on parking
Conversations on the situation continue in the wake of mainstream media attention to truckersâ parking needs.
February 3, 2015
Parking
Parking shortage hits the mainstream
A Wall Street Journal story last week took on the issue of the difficulties faced by truckers finding a safe parking spot in widespread congested areas around the nation.
January 27, 2015
Channel 19
Ranking jobs: Truck Driver gains while Publication Editor plummets
At No. 108, though, âTruck Driverâ falls far behind the No. 1 occupation of âActuary,â a sort of glorified statistician of sorts â meaning FMCSAâs CSA team might have the best job in the country?
April 29, 2013
Channel 19
Too big for Texas?
For one Texas rest stop: Trucks. And if ATAâs Bill Graves has his way, the 85 mph speed limit on a stretch of State Highway 130.
September 13, 2012
Channel 19
Best jobs of 2011: âTruck Driverâ ranks 171st
And thatâs out of a total 200, listed from âbest to worstâ by the folks at careercast.com and publicized in a Wall Street Journal piece early in January. They claim to have based their rankings on five separate factors â physical demands, work environment, income, employment outlook, and stress â and âTruck Driverâ ratings in [âŚ]
February 4, 2011
Channel 19
Introducing Wayne Dollar, a story-telling quilter who loves trucking, too
Though he perhaps needs no introduction, since you may have met him at his booth at the Great American Trucking Show in Dallas last year, owner-operator Wayne Dollar (pictured), 54, not only stitches his own quilts, heâs been winning awards with three of his uniquely themed creations since he started making them last summer. A trucking-themed quilt, [âŚ]
April 21, 2010
Channel 19
Long-haul quilting bee
This blog, in addition my Exit Only column in Truckers News, has been in part devoted to the off-highway pursuits of the nationâs haulers. Itâd be impossible for me to count the drivers Iâve talked to engaged in advocacy, trucking image-buiding efforts, music, arts, new-media activities and so much more. But the Wall Street Journal [âŚ]
March 29, 2010
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