For a long haul truck driver driving for a full-service trucking company, the ride can get boring very quickly. The transportation industry documented 432.9 billion miles in 2006, which translates to about 500 miles per day. A short haul truck driver will rarely have to deal with the struggle...

YUMA, Ariz. — Ingrid Brown had already piloted her big rig from the maddening rush-hour traffic of Southern California to the desert vistas of Arizona when she pulled into the grimy freight terminal. A chorus of idling diesel engines rumbled as rows of male truckers whiled away time in...

What is a BOC-3? “BOC” stands for Blanket of Coverage, and this filing is proof of process agents in all 50 states. If you just applied for your broker authority on the Unified Registration System (URS), you should have received your temporary/pending USDOT# and MC#. In order to...

Steps: 1- Open a company in your state: The type of company you open doesn’t really matter, it can be an LLC a small corporation, etc, etc. You can usually open your company through your state’s website, depending on your state of residence you might have to go in personally. 2- Obtain...

You sit for long hours every day. You’re probably snacking while you’re on the road and drinking caffeine to stay awake. Then, there are all of those signs for your favorite fast food restaurants blurring along the side of the highway. Let’s face it, staying healthy as a truck driver is...

Unlike other careers with a set salary, Truck Drivers are typically paid a set rate per mile that they travel, not for how long they work. That rate varies depending on the years of experience the driver has, the region where they drive and the company they drive for. According to the...

Definition of a Freight Broker – A freight broker is a company or individual who acts as a middle man between the transport service provider and the customer. Freight brokers do not actually provide the truck or the shipping, but instead, they provide essential services that will help the...

A load board is usually hosted online. Users of the specific load board pay a subscription to log into the load board to post loads or post empty trucks in order to either cover their freight or get their truck loaded. The load board facilitates communication between broker, shipper, and...

Some brokers offer quick pay on their loads. “Quick pay” is when a broker advances the trucking company funds for an invoice in exchange for a small fee. Quick pay is convenient because both the dispatched load and pay come from the same source. In addition, most brokers can get the...

Freight factoring (aka trucking factoring) is a form of invoice factoring that allows trucking companies, including owner-operators, to turn unpaid invoices into immediate cash. It’s common for a trucking company to use freight factoring to cover cash flow gaps while they wait to be paid by...

The New York State Thruway was closed in both directions Wednesday by a 21-vehicle pileup that included five tractor-trailers. The crash occurred at about 2:20 p.m. near mile marker 382 in the eastbound lanes near Batavia, according to numerous reports.The Thruway reopened in both directions...

This week saw a Melfort courtroom learn that the truck driver responsible for the Humboldt Broncos bus tragedy had made a total of 70 log book infractions in the days leading up to the deadly crash. The information presented during the sentencing hearing for Jaskirat Singh Sidhu has led the...

If you are hauling a load for a broker or 3pl, you may come to find that they offer quick pay as a payment option. If you plan on factoring the freight bill, you might be wondering which one you should go with, Quick Pay vs. Factoring? We are going to go over them here and try to help you...

A deal between the country’s transport ministers to make commercial truck driver training mandatory across Canada came as welcome news to the Saskatchewan Trucking Association. “The national mandatory entry-level training standard is something that the industry has been looking for a long...

A growing number of Mexican truckers are armoring up their big rigs in order to keep their cargo safe from hijackers. As cargo thefts in Mexico have doubled from their 2015 rate to more 30 per day, truckers and shippers are desperate to try to deter cartels and gangs, according to a report...

Dry Van – Box Trailer Freight trailers (also called dry vans or simply “boxes”) are designed to carry virtually any kind of boxed, crated, or palletized freight. Configurations Standard lengths: 28’, 32’, 36’, 40’, 42’, 43’, 45’, 48’ and 53’. Standard widths:...

NEAR GREEN BAY, Wis. — Truckers are returning to the scene of a crash where they lost one of their own. The drivers are hosting an honor run for Jesse Hettmann, who was hit and killed Friday on I-41 near Lombardi Avenue. Honor run planned for killed tow truck driver A big part of this...

The Tesla Semi is coming, and the trucking industry’s big players are starting to take notice. Among these is Daimler Trucks CEO Martin Daum, who recently stated that his firm is taking the all-electric long hauler from the Silicon Valley company very seriously. While this is the case,...

When we’re talking about the industry of trucking, the career field itself hasn’t seen too much growth, however, their job responsibilities have. The trucking industry in Great Falls has seen a dramatic increase in importing and exporting goods; especially with our Canadian...

The Teamsters want the court to reverse the federal agency’s ruling, claiming that it harms union-represented drivers who work for companies that have been providing paid meal periods and rest breaks under California law. and prohibit drivers from operating a truck if a driver feels too...