Revenue per truck per week is the total amount of linehaul and revenue generated by the company divided by the number of plated trucks, within a week’s time. Each truck is an asset and that asset should be making you revenue. This number will help you figure out what you…
The Timken Company has launched a set of videos giving automotive training and advice to those working on commercial vehicles. Timken is a world leader in engineered bearings and power transmission products operating out of 35 countries. The video below discusses proper lubrication to extend the life of your bearings….
The Timken Company has launched a set of videos giving automotive training and advice to those working on commercial vehicles. Timken is a world leader in engineered bearings and power transmission products operating out of 35 countries. The video below discusses the different types of wheel end systems, how to…
The Timken Company has launched a set of videos giving automotive training and advice to those working on commercial vehicles. Timken is a world leader in engineered bearings and power transmission products operating out of 35 countries. The video below helps identify worn wheel hub bearings. Symptoms of Worn Commercial…
Students at Monroe High School in Albany, Georgia got to spend some time learning about the trucking industry with a trucker from Estes Trucking. Hernando Waters has been a driver for 24 years and has driven 1 million accident-free miles. Waters informed the students about safety behind the wheel of…
Through a partnership with Daimler Trucks North America and Redding Freightliner, Shasta College out of Redding, California, has received a donated truck. This truck will assist with the Diesel Technology program and help teach students about the technology they will currently see in the trucking industry. According to the Bureau…
South Louisiana Community College’s Corporate College will be having a career information session for its Commercial Truck Driving program. The session will be on Thursday, January 30 from 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm at the Acadian Campus in Crowley. The session is free to the public and people attending can…
College of the Albemarle in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, is moving towards having a Commercial Driver’s License program. To further support this program the Armstrong family has established the “George P. Armstrong, Jr. Memorial Scholarship,” putting forth a $1,000 annual gift to a student enrolled in the CDL program. Armstrong…
The Lieber Correctional Institution in Charleston County, South Carolina, has inmates who are earning their CDL by “driving” on the open road. In an effort to push the state’s reentry project for inmates the SCDS Director Bryan Stirling brought in a truck simulator to teach the inmates about trucking. The…
Nyasha Makuto, a graduate student at Lakehead University in Ontario, Canada, and Vicki Kristman, a professor at the university, has put together a research study about depression in long-haul truckers. Within literature, risk factors for depression in truckers are not understood very clearly; this study will hopefully clarify and help…