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Trucking News for January 2008

Jobs in Trucking (286 articles)

• Job Interview Answers - Why Have You Had So Many Jobs In Such A Short Period Of Time?
  If you are prepared for this question, it's easy to deliver a winning job interview answer. The idea is not be perceived as a "job hopper." You will want to focus on how switching jobs often was mostly a CHOICE YOU MADE based on taking advantage of opportunities for you to perform, learn, and grow. Here are several word-for-word interview answers you can use....
  Date: Thu, Jan 31, 2008 10:41pm
• Organizing Writing During Your Job Search
  The best way to write interview follow up letters is to organize writing during your search. Then you can refer back to your finished letters and rephrase what you've written in similar situations. Then you won't have to reinvent the wheel each time you need to write. This article suggests ways to stay organized and relaxed, enabling your writing to flow....
  Date: Thu, Jan 31, 2008 9:57pm
• Career Opportunities as a Travel Agent
  As recently as 15 years ago, serving the public as a travel agent was a hot job. People even went to college specifically to land a job in the travel agency career field. Fast forward to now, and some who graduated with a Bachelor's Degree in Travel and Tourism Management are watching their diplomas gather dust as they work in a completely different endeavor. This, nevertheless, does not spell the end....
  Date: Thu, Jan 31, 2008 8:22pm
• Becoming a Professional Truck Driver
  In recent years, truck drivers have become one of America's most sought after workers; the American economy is rapidly growing at a faster rate than trucking companies can keep up with. In addition, a large portion of current truck drivers will begin to retire over the next few years. That coupled with thousands of new driving jobs forming has created a massive shortage of truck drivers....
  Date: Thu, Jan 31, 2008 5:55pm
• When the Promising Job Interview Turns Up Empty - You Can Still Win! Interview Tips and Strategy
  How can you still win when you have been notified that you did not get the Job? Increase your odds of finding a new job by taking one more step in your winning interview strategy....
  Date: Thu, Jan 31, 2008 5:11pm

Trucking in the News (146 articles)

• Trucking Association Calls Five Semi Pile-up 'Tragic' - 770chqr.com
  Trucking Association Calls Five Semi Pile-up 'Tragic'770chqr.com, Canada - 20 hours ago"Even if they are a proper distance behind it's very difficult to stop an 80 thousand pound freight truck." RCMP believe a westbound truck lost control ......
  Date: Thu, Jan 31, 2008 10:43pm
• Heavy Duty Trucking Takes 2 More Neal Prizes For Editorial Excellence
  Heavy Duty Trucking magazine has won two Jesse H. Neal honors for editorial excellence in the 2008 American Business Media competition. The Neal Award is regarded as the Pulitzer Prize of business publishing....
  Date: Thu, Jan 31, 2008 7:34pm
• Industry Veteran Bob Halladay Receives ATA's Highest Honor
  The American Trucking Associations has honored Bob Halladay with the S. Earl Dove Highway Award for his lifetime of dedication to the trucking industry. The Dove Award, considered ATA's highest honor,...
  Date: Thu, Jan 31, 2008 7:34pm
• Sister Hazel keeps on trucking - Boone Mountain Times
  Sister Hazel keeps on truckingBoone Mountain Times, USA - 1 hour agoBy Jeff Eason When Drew Copeland was playing college football for the Lees-McRae Bobcats in the late 1980s, he never dreamt that he would return to the High ......
  Date: Thu, Jan 31, 2008 6:31pm
• Owner Of East Ridge Trucking Firm Charged With Defrauding Bank - The Chattanoogan
  Owner Of East Ridge Trucking Firm Charged With Defrauding BankThe Chattanoogan, TN - 5 hours agoThe owner of an East Ridge trucking firm has been charged with defrauding a Ringgold bank of at least $240000. Federal authorities said Johnny Michael ......
  Date: Thu, Jan 31, 2008 2:10pm

Truck Drivers News (28 articles)

• Truck Drivers Appeal Iraqi Ambush Case
  "As this is a matter involving ongoing litigation, it is inappropriate to comment further at this time" HOUSTON - Lawyers for civilian truckers who drove into a deadly ambush in Iraq nearly four years ago are getting a new chance to revive their case in a rare closed hearing before a federal appeals court. via KSTP-TV Minneapolis...
  Date: Wed, Jan 30, 2008 2:59pm
• Truckers Charged With Stealing Iphones
  Two New York truck drivers have been charged with stealing a shipment of 300 iPhones en route to Hong Kong by substituting shredded paper. via The Post Chronicle...
  Date: Mon, Jan 28, 2008 7:35am
• Trucker Wanted in Run from Police, Auto Theft, Drug Charges
  "He was able to get away by actually pulling out of his shirt" State police have identified a truck driver wanted in an incident that prompted police activity on Interstate 81 from Carlisle to the East Shore Thursday. via WHTM-TV Harrisburg...
  Date: Mon, Jan 28, 2008 3:11am
• Ala. Trucker Faces Murder Charge In Ky. Crash
  An Alabama truck driver is charged with murder in a traffic crash that killed a career Kentucky state employee from Frankfort. via NBC13.com...
  Date: Sun, Jan 27, 2008 2:51pm
• Hard Times * USA - Truck Drivers Suffering
  And if it continues, all of us will feel the heat... Across the nation, drivers are quitting every day....
  Date: Sat, Jan 26, 2008 6:36pm

Owner Operator Jobs in Trucking (10 articles)

• Eufaula lumber plant to end production
  EUFAULA — Approximately 140 employees at Dixon Lumber are losing their jobs. The plant will cease operations in the next few weeks, though president and owner Bob Dixon said there are plans to restart production in the future....
  Date: Thu, Jan 31, 2008 3:01pm
• Job loss fear as travel stores shut
  Up to 100 Thomson and First Choice shops are to close after their owner TUI Travel targeted £50 million of new cost savings....
  Date: Tue, Jan 29, 2008 5:50pm
• Sample success in a career you love
  Americans may be growing increasingly weary of their jobs, but it doesn't have to stay that way. Follow six Arizonans as they share their paths to their dream job....
  Date: Sat, Jan 26, 2008 12:22am
• Innovation Wednesday: Filming Dirty Jobs, A Behind the Scenes Look
  Want a dirty job done right? Ask some dirty boys to do it. That’s the takeaway from my visit to the “set” of Dirty Jobs, the runaway hit series from the Discovery Channel. Mike Rowe, the star and rogue philosopher......
  Date: Thu, Jan 24, 2008 5:08am
• Doyle promises crisis team
  NIAGARA, Wis. — A standing-room-only crowd jammed Niagara City Hall on Friday to discuss the future of the 319 workers that will be losing their jobs ......
  Date: Sat, Jan 19, 2008 5:37pm

Truck Drivers News (2 articles)

• Safeway's trucking fleet shifts to biodiesel
  Safeway grocery trucks no longer just deliver vegetables. In a sense, they now run on vegetables, too....
  Date: Sat, Jan 19, 2008 8:48am
• * USA - The burden of diesel costs
  In an industry in which diesel is a bloodline, representing 25 percent of operating costs, soaring oil prices have serious implications for local trucking and transportation companies Chattanooga,TN,USA - ......
  Date: Sat, Jan 12, 2008 12:42pm