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Women Can Be Truckers, Too!: 5 Keys to Success

While it鈥檚 still not a profession many women think of for themselves (or one the industry necessarily thinks of for them), more and more women are giving trucking a shot. Traditionally thought to be a masculine occupation, trucking is, like many other professions, seeing an uptick in representation by women. Still, only about 5 percent of truckers are of the female persuasion, which makes them a small but potentially important minority in the truck driving community. If you ask female truck drivers, they will tell you the transition isn鈥檛 easy. Chris Kiser was a truck driver for Werner Enterprises for…

黑料不打烊 Alum Dante Washington

Dante Washington graduated from the Advanced Truck Driver Training Program in June 2015. He is now driving for USA Truck and enjoying his new career. Dante recently stopped by 黑料不打烊 and talked to the students about how his schooling helped prepare him. Thank you for sending in the picture after stopping by and drive safely!

Virgin Group founder discusses trucking industry, improving fuel efficiency

Richard Branson, the founder of Virgin Group, discussed fuel costs in his blog, as reported in FleetOwner, a trucking industry news site. Fuel costs of course are on of the largest costs in the trucking industry, and constitutes a major expense each year. Branson claims that tractor-trailer fleets spend $105 billion on fuel each year, and states that the industry could save potentially $40 billion annually by improving fuel efficiency. Branson has been working with the North American Council for Freight Efficiency to form the company Trucking Efficiency to address the problem of high fuel costs in the trucking industry.…

Part II: GHG Phase II: 10 key points in the proposed truck standards

The trucking industry news site Fleet Owner features an article addressing 10 key points on the proposed truck standards for Phase II of the new Obama Administration greenhouse gas (GHG) laws. The article addresses the environmental impact produced by heavy- and medium-duty trucks, as well as the measures taken by the federal government to reduce that impact through improved fuel efficiency. The government says that big trucks are responsible for about 20 percent of greenhouse gas emissions that come from vehicles, but in the U.S. constitute about 5 percent of the total number of vehicles on the road. Recognizing this…

Proposed Standards for GHG

The trucking industry news site Fleet Owner features an article that covers 10 key points on the proposed truck standards for Phase II of the new Obama Administration greenhouse gas (GHG) laws. Calling heavy-duty trucks the second largest and fastest growing segment of the U.S. transportation sector in terms of emissions and energy use, medium- and heavy-duty vehicles currently account for about 20 percent of greenhouse emissions and oil use in the U.S. transportation sector, though they only account for about 5 percent of the total number of vehicles on the road. This is an obvious disparity that the government…