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May 26
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Are You (and Your Truck) Ready for International Roadcheck?

By Brett Bennett Calhoun Truck Lines No Comments

We’ve all heard the old adage, “This is for your own good!” at some point during our lives. And while we know there’s truth to the statement, it doesn’t make whatever the saying prefaces any easier to stomach. For drivers…

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May 13
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Milestones for Trucking Industry Confirmed by ATA’s Annual Report

By Brett Bennett Calhoun Truck Lines No Comments

Their slogan is, “Trucking Moves America Forward,” and 2014’s trucking stats prove it beyond a shadow of a doubt. The American Trucking Association released its annual report, American Trucking Trends, this week, confirming significant milestones for the industry last year….

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May 12
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The Unintended Side Effects of HOS Restart Provisions

By Brett Bennett Calhoun Truck Lines No Comments

Late in 2014, Congress passed an appropriations bill that, much to the relief of truckers and trucking companies everywhere, eliminated funding for the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s 34-hour restart provision. By suspending this provision for the foreseeable future, regulations…

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Apr 06
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Does Driver Training Improve Safety?

By Brett Bennett Calhoun Truck Lines No Comments

It might seem an obvious correlation: the more training a driver completes, the better his or her safety record. And, when combined with hours of service, this logic is generally considered to be true in transportation and other industries. In…

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Mar 11
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What’s with all the Truck Drivers?

By Brett Bennett Calhoun Truck Lines No Comments

According to a recent report by University Of Minnesota’s Minnesota Population Center’s Integrated Public Use Microdata Series, a career as a truck driver is among the most popular nationwide, and has been since the late 1970s. Using data from the…

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Mar 04

Ending Trafficking by Raising Awareness

By Brett Bennett Calhoun Truck Lines No Comments

We see human rights issues all around us today: online, and in the news, from real-life online privacy initiatives and living wage pay increases, to films depicting real-life struggles like Selma and 12 Years a Slave. But often these problems…

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Feb 24

Why Keeping Speed Limit Low, Uniform is Best

By Brett Bennett Calhoun Truck Lines No Comments

As an industry, trucking is concerned with safety—from the governing associations all the way to the each independent operator. Speed limit is always a major safety consideration, especially when the laws of physics determine that a higher rate of travel…

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Jan 31
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9 Reasons Why Intermodal Trucking is Better Than OTR

By Brett Bennett Calhoun Truck Lines No Comments

1. Intermodal truck drivers get home most every night and off on weekends. (Not an exaggeration)   2. See your family 3. Eat food you buy and prepare…and stop eating at fast food joints.   4. Sleep in your own…

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Jan 13

Weighing the Costs and Benefits of Eliminating No-defect DVIRs

By Brett Bennett Calhoun Truck Lines No Comments

It’s no secret that what drives many decisions in the trucking industry is the bottom line (in addition to safety considerations), and everyone’s looking out for it. While it may seem that sometimes-overzealous regulation can get in the way of…

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Jan 09

Murphy Loves Winter… Be Prepared!

By Brett Bennett Calhoun Truck Lines No Comments

Murphy’s law states that, “Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.” And, as we all know, what can and will go wrong will happen on the coldest/snowiest/iciest day imaginable. While we can’t control the weather, we can control our…

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