Common Courtesy

So last week as I was making my way down HWY 23 in Minnesota I came across a JR Schugel truck, or rather I run up on the JR Schugel truck very quickly, since it was running at very slow speeds. I was running right around 60 mph, which was the posted speed limit. It surely wasn't fast enough to be coming up on another truck & the four-wheelers that trailed behind it like I did. The truck was running between 45 & 50 mph for the most part, but every once in a while the brake lights would come on and it would slow

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Trucking. Should You Be?

So. One thing in the trucking industry that is really bothering me lately is all of this crap Swift, JB Hunt, Werner, C.R England, Prime, and Crete (I could go on and on with names here) are doing when hiring unqualified drivers who couldn't hold a job at Mc Donald's. There are a lot of people who DO NOT belong in a truck but our wonderful government is looking the other way because these big companies can throw their money and weight around. Did you know most companies have the authority to both train and license

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