Old Trucker Troubles
When you’re a young, fit trucker, you never think about growing old and the problems old age will bring. All the old truckers warned you about jumping off trailers and loading...
Blogs
Holidays - Then Back To The Grind.
Can you believe it? I took two and a half weeks off from the truck! I didn't look at it or worry about who was driving it. (Luckily for me, no one!) I would tell you I didn't talk...
Has anything changed?
In 1999, when Pro-Trucker Magazine was first published, truckers' main concerns were driver pay, shortage of drivers, poor driver training, employee/independent contractor classifi...
Technology
Trucks had little to no technology in the late ’60s and early ‘70s. Most companies were small (10 or 20 trucks). That was before most of them got bought up by companies that are no...
Nothing New
The tagline beside my ruggedly handsome face above my stories reads, His story shows us once again that drivers' problems are universal.A couple of the stories I read in the May-Ju...
30? 60? 90? Late Pay
Many say the industry's most highly discussed hot topics are safety, e-logs and driver shortages. I disagree. There is one subject that will always trump the rest, and that is pay....
Safety First
By now, many of you have already heard about the tragic accident in Carberry, Manitoba, on June 15, 2023. It really hit hard for me because I had just crossed through that very sam...
Monkeys and Peanuts
An old saying says, "When you pay peanuts, you get monkeys."This article concerns a professional truck driver's per-mile wage rate from 1964 to 2023 compared to the wage rate of a...
Six Cans for Buffalo Joe
So there I was unloaded in Trenton, Ontario, and there is almost nothing coming out of Trenton that hauls on a step-deck, but the office only said they would keep looking. I told t...
Canadian and Proud of it
With Canada Day coming, I want to say that when I hear words like tyranny, communism or comments about our lack of freedom, I get my back up and immediately question the speaker's...
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