Some Food For Thought – Concerning Truck Related Accidents

I have recently been seeing lots of truck vs car related accidents showing up in the news. I especially am keeping an eye on these accidents as it seems everybody and their brother is just looking for another excuse to add another regulation to truck drivers. When I was on the road I would see [...]

Explaining Real Problems in Trucking

Problems exist within many industries today, but most are not life or death situations. The trucking industry is no exception, there are countless problems, and some are about life or death situations. There was an accident on I-64 in Kentucky on Friday between two tractor trailers in which one of the drivers was killed. I [...]

Truckers Treated Inhumanely

If you sit and think about it truckers are indeed treated inhumanely.
Truck drivers are talked down too at every corner they turn, cities don’t want them in the limits, 4wheeler drivers curse them.
Truck drivers can be poked and prodded at any time their company, the law enforcement, doctors feel like it. Truck drivers [...]

Blind Spots – Learn Them and Live

Did you know there were four blind spots or “no zones” surrounding a tractor trailer that the driver of the truck cannot see objects from the drivers seat?
Any vehicle driven has blind spots – but today I will only discuss those found around a tractor trailer. Car and pick-up and motorcycle drivers/riders often get [...]

MCSAC First Order of Business – Distracted Driving

Who would have thought? Distracted Driving is a problem – but evidently not for truck drivers – according to all the accident statistics. But Ray LaHood is “obsessed” with distracted driving and since he oversees what FMCSA and MCSAC does, then they must waste more money trying to find a reason to study distracted driving [...]

NTSB makes Update on Crash in Kentucky that Killed 11

In its continuing investigation of the highway accident that killed 11 people near Munfordville, Kentucky, in March, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has developed the following factual information:
On Friday March 26, 2010, at approximately 5:17 a.m. CDT, a 76,660-pound tractor-trailer combination truck traveling southbound on I-65 near Munfordville, KY, departed the left travel [...]

Ambulance Chasing Lawyer Portrays Trucker as Killer

These so-called kind of “lawyers” really irritate me. Yes, I am talking about all of those ambulance chasers out there. It’s bad enough when there is an accident, but then we have to read that truckers are killers too. What the hell is your problem Mr. Brett Emison? Is business that bad that you have [...]

Silly Rules Imposed on Truckers but not on Car Drivers

Have you ever thought about the silly rules that truckers have imposed on them? I have, and some are asinine. Why is a truck driver limited to eleven hours of driving, and only fourteen hours of work per day? Or I should say per ten hours spent in the sleeper berth. Why is it, that [...]

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