Truck Driver Became Mississippi Democratic Nominee for Governor
A long-haul trucker from Mississippi has found himself in a whole different line of work these days. With absolutely no campaign besides about $50 or $60 that he put into his actual participation besides the $300 fee to enter the running, Robert Gray, 46, has secured the Democratic nomination for governor of Mississippi. In almost unprecedented political turn of events, Gray has pulled in 146,387 votes on election day without the use...
Happy National Driver Appreciation Week!
Yesterday was the start of National Driver Appreciation Week which lasts until the 19th of September. It’s the one part of the year that is nationally recognized for taking special care to honor all the professional truck drivers that are responsible for providing our country with the most exceptional role in our lives. After all, if you’re eating something right now, it was brought on a truck. Wearing clothes? Yep it...
Missing Truck Driver Network Alert Network: The Only Amber Alert for Truck Drivers
Jonda Williams was married to a truck driver that went missing in early 2012. Upon this OTR driver’s disappearance, Jonda immediately contacted police who simply told her to “wait it out.” However, when she hadn’t heard from her loved one in days, which was not in his character at all, she knew there needed to be more done to find him. “Mark always told [Jonda] that if there ever was a problem, to get a...
AllTruckJobs.com Heads to the Great American Trucking Show 2015
A bunch of us at AllTruckJobs.com are super stoked as we prepare for the 2015 Great American Trucking Show (GATS) in Dallas, TX August 27th-29th. This will be our very exciting 2nd round at GATS since our attendance last year when we first launched our brand. GATS is extremely focused on health & wellness of drivers, new regulations in place as well as connecting fleets and job services to drivers Features of this year’s...
Shady DMV Workers Exchanging CDLs for Bribes
If someone offered you $5,000 in exchange for allowing untrained drivers to operate commercial vehicles would you do it? Or, how about, would you bribe someone that much cash to get something you wanted? Hopefully, you have a little higher of moral code than a few bad apples in California. Feds are currently investigating the huge scandal that surfaced last week in a Sacramento, CA DMV when it was discovered that a few employees there...