Get Out of My Business: The Truth About CVSA’s Push to Limit Personal Conveyance Let’s Start With the Basics If I’m making the payments on my truck - whether it’s leased or bank-financed - the CVSA has no business telling me how I can use it when I’m off the clock. I pay the insurance. [...]
Who Holds the Pen: Where Trucking Bills Really Begin in the Senate This is part of my Know Who Holds the Pen series - and the last in this 4-part series. The final book, releasing by the end of August, will go even deeper into this topic and show drivers exactly who to contact before [...]
FREEDOM CONVOY: HIJACKED We Had a Chance to Stand With the World But Instead We Stood in a Parking Lot Was America’s Freedom Convoy Stolen from the People? [This article is based on publicly available information, news reports, and personal analysis. It is intended for educational and commentary purposes protected by the First Amendment. All [...]
ATA’S DEFINITION OF SAFETY [CHEAP LABOR] Today’s Safety Features Aren’t About Safety: They’re About Replacing Skilled Drivers With Cheap Labor Let’s stop pretending these so-called “safety” features on modern semi-trucks are really about protecting the public. They’re not. They’re about replacing skilled drivers with less-trained, cheaper, more compliant labor - and eventually, replacing drivers altogether. [...]
IT WAS NEVER ABOUT SAFETY! If ELDs Are So Safe, Why Do Livestock Haulers Need an Exemption? This week, Truck Driver News reported that Congress is once again pushing to exempt a specific group of drivers from federal Hours of Service (HOS) and Electronic Logging Device (ELD) regulations - this time under the newly introduced [...]
THE REAL PROBLEM Corporations That Exploit the System Enforcing English Isn’t Enough - It’s Time to Hold the Companies Accountable When Secretary Sean Duffy took to social media this week to announce that the U.S. Department of Transportation is now enforcing the English proficiency requirement for truck drivers, many of us in the industry had [...]
