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Celebrating Women’s History Month by remembering first female licensed truck driver and company owner
By: iTrucker / Mario Pawlowski Celebrating Women’s History Month. Lillie Elizabeth Drennan (1897-1974) was Texas’ first female licensed truck driver and a pioneering trucking company owner. In 1928, she and her husband began delivering drilling supplies to the burgeoning Texas oil fields running two old, patched-up pickup trucks. Lillie became the sole owner of the Drennan […]
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OTR truck driver who “thought the Covid-19 virus would disappear” after election will need oxygen for the rest of his life
Story by: AUDREY DUTTON The long-haul truck driver Paul Russell was driving back to Boise from Florida, by way of Houston. It was early November, and somewhere along his route, the OTR trucker caught the coronavirus. – According to the article in idahostatesman.com Russell, 63, knew he was sick by the time he […]
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Autonomous trucks may negatively affect truckers, at least temporarily according to FMCSA chief
Story by: John Gallagher, Washington Correspondent at FreightWaves Acting Administrator Meera Joshi sees ‘major shift’ in trucker workforce How the move toward driverless trucks will affect the truck driver workforce is a challenge that must be addressed whether the timeline toward full automation ends up short or long, according to the nation’s top […]
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Cass says data continues to point toward economic contraction including freight shipments
Story by: Todd Maiden @ FreightWaves I Freight shipments and expenditures declined on a year-over-year basis again in September according to the latest Cass Freight Index Report. According to the report, shipments declined 3.4% in September, the tenth straight month of year-over-year declines. On a month-over-month comparison, the index improved 0.8% to its best reading […]
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See Trucker Talent Search’s Taylor Barker cover Joey+Rory song
“The sixth annual Overdrive-Red Eye Radio Trucker Talent Search received more than 50 entries from talented truckers who love to sing. A panel of judges reviewed the entries and has chosen a top 10. Over the next several days, Overdrive will feature each of the top 10 singers in advance of announcing the three finalists who will compete live for […]
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Owner-operators benefiting from Trump tax cuts, Black Smoke Matters Blame Trump for smaller paychecks
“Truck drivers hauling for their own business received a lift in 2018 from President Donald Trump’s Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, according to analysis from tax consultancy ATBS.” – According to the article in freightwaves.com and its author John Gallagher Gallagher also wrote – “That assessment, however, which was based on preliminary data compiled from over 3,000 […]
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Trucker fined for trying to smuggle cheese into Canada
“A trucker must pay a fine of C$30,000 for attempting to smuggle nearly 8,800 pounds of cheese from the U.S. into Canada.” – According to article in freightwaves.com and its author Nate Tabak “Haissam Azaar was fined the equivalent of $22,000 on May 9 after pleading guilty to the thwarted attempt to bring the eight skids of undeclared […]
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Trucker fights deportation after police checked his Log book
“A mechanical engineering student who supported himself by driving a truck faces deportation from Canada to India for working more hours than his study permit allowed”.- According to the article in freightwaves.com and its author Nate Tabak “Jobandeep Sandhu was pulled over during a routine traffic stop on Highway 401 between Montreal and Toronto in 2017. But upon examining his […]
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Trucker accused of deadly I-70 crash near Denver released from jail after posting bail
JEFFERSON COUNTY, Colo. —” The trucker who is accused of causing a fiery crash that killed four people on Interstate 70 in Lakewood last month left jail after posting bail Saturday” – according to article in kdvr.com and its author ERIC RUBLE Ruble also wrote – “Rogel Lazaro Aguilera-Mederos, 23, is charged with four counts of vehicular […]
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