How To Find The Perfect truck Driving Job

The short answer is, define exactly what kind of work you are willing to do, where you want to go and how much home time and income you desire. Then search for jobs that fit your requirements. Let’s break it down into steps. Decide Exactly What You Will And Won’t Do Do you only want … Read more

Seriously, Here’s How You Keep Millennial Truck Drivers

Here's How You Keep Millennial Truck Drivers
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So many words are used to define particular generations. Baby boomers, Gen-X, Gen-Y, and now it’s millennials, millennials, millennials. There’s an inherent danger in lumping a huge group of men and women together based on when they are born. But this is America, and we seem hooked on looking at things with a generational eye.

What Is A Millennial?

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7 Power Moves For Posting Your Truck On Load Boards

7 Power Moves For Posting Your Truck On Load Boards

In any economy, the best loads offered by freight brokers never make it to the load board. Those loads either go directly to an owner operator the broker already has a relationship with, or to someone who posted their truck on a load board like Trucker’s Edge®.

7 Power Moves For Posting Your Truck On Load Boards

Let’s recap where the best freight is found. With rare exceptions, the 4 ways you find these loads, listed from best to – well, calling off the load board.

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Truck Driver 101, Flunking Orientation

Truck Driver 101, Lesson One Yes, you can flunk orientation. I nearly did just that several years ago. Consider this a truck driver 101 lesson. Getting fired before you were even hired really has to stink for many reasons. You’re now unemployed and starting that job search all over. You may be pretty tight on … Read more