Truck driving was a popular occupation long before the movie, "Smokey and the Bandit," came out in 1977. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, despite a poor economy and high gas prices, ...

An owner-operator trucking business usually means you have one tractor and trailer to move cargo or personal goods interstate or intrastate. Being your own boss provides a lot of flexibility, but the ...

Sometimes owner-operators are their own worst enemy. They too often do things to undermine their business – like budgeting based on the best of times, not year-long averages. Or they switch carriers ...

The majority of owner-operators indicated that they would expect to experience significant decreases in their job satisfaction and annual income if they were reclassified to a company driver, ...

Happy New Year to all of you! 2021 has no doubt been a strange one for our supply chains, with trucking shining as never before, in many ways. Yet at once, trucking seems to be getting more of the ...

Succeeding in trucking isn’t only what your credit rating is or what your company’s Dunn & Bradstreet Report looks like. It has to do with what you know, how much revenue your company produces against ...

Brad Caspick’s first stint as an owner-operator didn’t end well. “I had some issues,” the Chestermere, Alta., resident told Today’s Trucking in an interview. “I ended up selling my truck, thinking I ...

When I decided to become a long-haul driver, my three-year plan was simple: Year one, work as a company driver to gain experience; year two, buy a truck and work as an owner/operator at the same ...

The Federal Government is confident it will have crossbench backing to abolish new changes to minimum pay rates for owner-operator truck drivers, after Victorian Senator John Madigan declared his ...

One-truck independent Johnny Saunders rebuilt his 2000 International after he downsized his fleet. Since the rebuild, the ...