USA Trucking Jobs News And Information

During conversations with trucking executives earlier in the year, most expressed cautious optimism that the outlook for the year would improve slightly during the second half. Now that we’ve arrived, however, it’s difficult to gauge whether the sector has turned the corner.

Rising fuel costs are the single issue to blame and worse yet, it doesn’t look likely to dissipate anytime soon.

“It’s creating an incredible impact on customers’ transportation budgets,” says John Hickerson, Senior Vice President & Chief Marketing Office, FFE Transportation Services and President, American Eagle Lines and FFE Logistics (www.ffex.net). “There’s no denying it’s real. Our customers stop at the fuel pump on their way home and they experience it.”

Read the entire article by visiting World Trade Magazine

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.