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Truckin’ Ed – Knowing Your Business – key for Owner Operators

map-reading.jpgBig trucking companies cater to their customers and have their own business profiles. As an owner operator, you need to identify your target market. If you think you can’t make money owning a truck, then you don’t know anything about trucking. A large trucking company needs to keep as many trucks moving as they can or they will suffer great loss. They have as many things working for them as they do against them.

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Plan for new July 1st HOS rules as written: Are you ready?

A good article about the coming Hours of Service Rules Change slated to come into effect on July 1, 2013.  Many fleets and drivers may be hoping this doesn’t actually get put into effect as scheduled, but according to Richard P. Schweitzer, general council/government affairs for the National Private Truck Council (NPTC), it will.

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FMCSA Hours of Service: July 1st Rules Compared to Other Countries

I am happy to share a great article by Aubrey Allen Smith where he details the various HOS rules in USA and the rest of the world.  What I really like is that Aubrey focuses on the result of the US FMCSA rules changes on driver safety and driver fatigue as well as the need for the carriers and shippers to address the issues of unecessary wait times.

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Too many truckers can’t do basic math….

I decided to share this article written by Bill Cameron in Truck News as he hits on some really great business tips for Owner Operators and drivers in general.  Sean:  I’ve written in the past that I think driving school practices and commercial driving exams should have a serious overhaul. I think this revamp should include a math test. It seems far too many truck drivers, despite possessing other admirable skills, just can’t add.

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Truckers Are Losing Sleep Over 70-Hour Work Limit: New HOS Rules

There was a good article published in the Wall Street Journal today focusing on the costs of the new HOS rules to the industry and the drivers: both money and work/life balance.  There are definitely some societal benefits to reducing sleepy drivers, but the data used by the FMCSA to justify the position on the new HOS rules seems suspect, in my opinion.  Trucking and truckers are just an easy target and slapping on new regulations is easy for regulators to do, because the general public is not going to spend the time to really understand the numbers, and of course they want safer roads.  It’s just not necessarily the trucks and truckers that are the problem.

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