Women Should Not Be Afraid of Trucking
A friend wrote to me the other day about whether women can be truck drivers. She had a friend that asked her and even though she had some experience around trucks in her own life it was not something she…
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Don’t Ruin Your Life Because of Bad Decisions
The trucking industry is very much about decisions and your truck training is part of that decision making process. Good training, a good carrier, and strong supportive culture are all important to ensure you make the right decisions going down…
Supply Chain Looks to Trucking Students for Help
Unless you’ve been under a rock or are tuned out from the daily news the supply chain is in a critical state. Goods are sitting on ships out in the ocean waiting to be unloaded, trucking companies are sitting with…
Don’t Get Caught Unpaid as a New Truck Driver
You’re new to the industry, you just got your licence through a training school and have started looking for an employer and because you are new feel you must take the first job offered to you. A company offers you…
Recruiter of the Year Says Understand Drivers for Retention
Michael Zelek of Wellington Motor Freight won Recruiter of the Year at the recent National Recruiting and Retention Symposium and was asked what he does to keep a 90% retention rate for his fleet. His reply, “Understand your drivers on…
Canada’s Driver Shortage-We Need You!
Canada is quietly creeping into a deep hole through the driver shortage that’s been looming for years over our heads. Britain is already going through it as the Army is called in to help deliver fuel to gas stations. They…