Greetings all!In this post I’m going to give the North American equivalent to the points Ian made in his first article about trucking in England. Of course many things about trucking are similar all over the world. When we learn some of the...
Topics: Employment, Hours of Service, Safe Driving, safety, speed limiters, trucking

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Hi all.So whats it like to be a British Trucker? To be honest, it’s a thoroughly thankless task. Crowded roads, impatient drivers, inconsiderate employers and draconian legislation all add up to stress, tiredness and misery.British road are very...
Topics: calais, Consumption, drivers, Employment, england, Europe, facilities, food, france, french, hours, Hours of Service, over, road, roads, Safe Driving, scales, service areas, thier, travel, travels, truck, trucker, Trucker News, Trucker's Spouse Stories, Truckers Wives and Families, trucking, vehicle, World News Coment

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photo credit: tambrook33I  just read an article on a news blog for the Northwest Herald out of Illinois saying that enrollments are up for truck driving courses.  It seems trucking companies, at least in the United States are among the few businesses...
Topics: bull, bull riding, career, drivers, Employment, good news, Happiness, income, many, new drivers, ongoing, photo credit, Safe Driving, sized, team driving, truck, truck driving, Trucker News, trucking, under strain

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Hello All!Yesterday (12 April 2009) a truck driver from England, Ian Sayer posted acomment in response to my post on Top Ten List. I liked what he had to sayand how he said it, so promptly invited him to post some articles describingtrucking in his part..
Topics: Employment, Hours of Service, Trucker News, Truckers Talking

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HAPPYEVERYONESometimes it just can’t be helped.  Sooner or later in OTR trucking one is liable to spend time away from home when they really shouldn’t or at least certainly don’t want to.  Call it bad planning, bad luck, or just fate..
Topics: easter, easter dinner, easter weekend, Happiness, happy easter, holiday on the road, home, marilyn, Relationships, truckstop maybrook, weekend home, weekend road, wife marilyn, wifi connection

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