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“Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking the tartar sauce with you.”

– Zig Ziglar, American author, salesperson and motivational speaker

Improving Drivers’ Health
Worth the Effort

By Greg Iverson

Does anyone else remember the old height-vs.-weight charts that were in use by recruiting departments not so long ago? My, how times have changed! The top weight on the chart that I have (don’t tell my H/R director) is 240 pounds. Unfortunately, my orientation class would be a lonely place some weeks if I utilized that chart.

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The Best Fleets to Drive For

What can fleets do to make life better for their drivers, thus boosting retention rates, and what are the best fleets to drive for from a driver’s standpoint? That’s what the Truckload Carriers Association and CarriersEdge wanted to know by conducting a nationwide survey of drivers and fleets. And the winners are:

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Signs of Economic Life

Fresh signs suggest that factories are coming back to life, home sales are picking up and consumers are feeling a slight rise in confidence.

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Trucker Buddy Needs Your Help

We hear it in the news every day that charities are often the first and hardest hit when the economy falters. Trucker Buddy is no different. Many of the organization’s traditional corporate sponsors cannot be as generous as they were in the past.

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My Point: The Inevitable Driver Turnover Turnaround

Marvin Shefsky
- Publisher

In the good old days – say two or three years ago – driver turnover was considered the trucking industry’s biggest problem. What a difference a recession makes.

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Drivers Sound Off

Tough economic times call for tough countermeasures. Many carriers and fleets are responding to the crisis by putting a freeze on hiring and/or cutting employees. So what are those on the front line of the trucking industry – the drivers, particularly owner-operators – doing to hang in there long enough to emerge intact on the other side of the recession?

With that in mind, Over the Road and Pro Trucker asked a handful of drivers the following question:

How do you survive in these tough economic times?

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MATS Overcomes Economic Anxiety

Exhibit Management Associates, Inc. announced that the 2009 Mid-America Trucking Show in Louisville, KY eclipsed pre-show expectations despite the widespread economic worries.

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