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Retention is the issue, not recruiting: An ‘alert’ from trucker Jeff Clark
Clark’s personal story relative to pay, recruiting and retention on the new North American Trucking Alerts community, advocacy website.
December 9, 2014
Find more about the North American Trucking Alerts’ free year-long membership offer for CDL drivers during the month of December below.
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FMCSA to survey new CDL holders for long-awaited driver training rule
The agency announced this week its intentions to survey recently licensed truck operators as part of the data gathering process in producing an entry level driver training rule.
November 6, 2014
If you’re using a mobile device, tap the image to call and weigh in on your own training prior to getting your CDL — and/or what you think should be required of today’s new drivers. We’ll utilize your input in a future “audio mailbag” podcast. If you’re on a desktop, call 530-408-6423. Make sure to tell us your name and state of residence.
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Video witnesses: Dual-camera systems making in-roads in fleet trucks
How truck-based cameras are capturing evidence that affects safety and privacy on the road.
July 21, 2014
Most truck cameras are road-facing, installed by fleets or owner-operators. Some fleets install dual technology, adding a lens trained on the driver.
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Trucking 101
Learning long and hard: “I haven’t developed the nerves it takes to play these monkey games. I’m still panicky when the truck isn’t rolling.”
May 21, 2014
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Channel 19
The yardstick method of driver training
Jimmy Ardis tells the funny story of how he learned to drive — his uncle rapping his knuckles with a yardstick from the sleeper whenever he jammed a gear too quickly — toward a serious focus on the need to more robust mentoring industrywide.
March 1, 2014
Owner-operator Jimmy Ardis is based in Sumter, S.C.
Business
Feeling the love with a new carrier, in a warm place
If FMCSA is really concerned about safety, “they’ll go after the companies with churn like a Wisconsin butter factory, and leave experienced drivers and small companies with longtime employees alone.”
February 7, 2014
Left to right: Steve Bailey sees to it that Gerald Paquette and George Parker secure things properly.
Channel 19
Owner-operator takes active role in educating tomorrow’s four-wheeler
Meet Todd Modderman, independent owner-operator who today collaborates in his spare time with the B.R.A.K.E.S. program of young driver education, utilizing his Peterbilt 379.
November 19, 2013
Todd Modderman’s Peterbilt 379 in a B.R.A.K.E.S. demonstration
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FMCSA scraps old training proposal, embarks on new rulemaking
FMCSA withdraws its 2007 Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Entry Level Driver Training in favor of developing another proposal.
September 20, 2013
Western Express driver Derek Dorsey, on Monteagle Mountain, I-24
Business
Driver shortage: Many are called, fewer are chosen
Part 2 in this series examines carrier management and driver views on solutions to improved conditions to attract people to the trucking industry.
September 2, 2013
Driver Raise Clock
Channel 19
‘Harder than it looks’ — mainstream biz reporter takes big-truck wheel
Biz reporter Lauren Boyer of the York Daily Record faces down fears of highway driving around big trucks to take the wheel herself; a round-up of truck/trucking shows near-term and down the road…
June 22, 2013
For video of Lauren Boyer’s turn through the big-rig-backing engine, follow this link.
Business
15-foot cleavage holds more than one bad idea
“The trifecta. First: giant, billboard-sized boobies are a definite distraction, I don’t care who you are… Second, get a CDL in three days? On what planet is this legal or sane?”
April 15, 2013
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FMCSA sets new state CDL testing standards
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has issued a final rule that will revise testing and standards for commercial driver’s licenses and commercial learner’s permits.
April 1, 2013
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