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Drivers: Rules of the Game

So you want to be a success?

If you thought working at a job was demanding, the alternative can be even more so - you can expend twice as much energy looking for a job

Searching for a rewarding job can be stressful, frustrating and more demanding than running a multi-million dollar corporation. It is our hope that by using this guide, you will be able to realize your dreams and secure the job and career you desire.Driver Resumes

Relish the Job Hunt!

Times change. Years ago, a person would get a job straight out of school and plan on retiring from that company years later. The loyalty went both ways. The company would keep its workers on the payroll, through boom times and bust. Not anymore.

Large companies continually trim their payroll as they see fit. Jobs are moved wherever the wages are lower. Full-time positions are cut and replaced by part-time workers who receive lower wages and fewer benefits. The employer is driven by the bottom line. more Job Hunt

Insights from the Inside – An Employer’s View of the Interview

Everyone has, at one point or another, been faced with the prospect of sitting down and speaking with one or more individuals who will decide whether or not you have the skills and abilities to become their newest employee.

The thought alone is enough to make the strongest among us tremble and break into a cold sweat. "It’s not fair," you theorize. "One mistake or misplaced adjective during the interview and I’m back on the street, back at the end of the line, searching for the one intangible which will bring me job security and a financial well being. What did I do wrong?" more "What the trucking recruiter sees..."

How To Grow Your Trucking Company

Running a successful trucking company requires three things.

1. Finding truck loads of freight
2. Moving the truck load from point A to point B
3. Managing all the little details so that 1 and 2 happen successfully

Sounds easy, doesn’t it? However, most trucking companies fail because of the little details that go wrong. Repairs are missed, so trucks stop working. Drivers are not paid on time, so the drivers quit. Fuel is not paid for, so the trucks stop moving freight. Although the problems may look entirely unrelated, they are connected. They all indicate that there are cash flow problems. What is worse, your company may be doing great and invoicing a lot, and still have cash flow problems. That is why most owners don’t find out about the problems until it is too late.

Trucking companies need money to keep running. Actually, they need more money than traditional companies. Money to pay drivers. To pay for fuel and repairs. To run their business. In the transportation industry, you surely need to spend money to make money. Otherwise, try hauling a load in a truck that does not have fuel….or a paid driver. "Grow your trucking companies..."

Giving Trucking A Bad Name – 3 Lorry Driving Scoundrels

Having been exploring Facebook lately, the reputation of the lorry truck driving haulage industry is clearly in need of a tune up. The number of groups created to slander the profession and express personal dislikes is enormous, and despite a recent survey claiming over half the participants see lorry truck drivers as unsung heroes of their community, the less then neutral source (Clearstone – a haulage driver recruitment company) makes me slightly sceptical that attitudes are changing.

Nope, I’ve seen first hand the kind of prejudices and stereotypes associated with truck drivers, and as with most scenarios of this type it’s a few bad examples tainting the good names of the others. Of course, some people are worse than others, and while road users can be rightfully annoyed at a lorry driver cutting them off, they should be glad that the majority of truck drivers don’t have the same ethics as the following lorry driving scoundrels...Trucking & Driving

Best truck jobs

Employers have said that they are more likely to be 12 percent more graduates this year than last year. It is the first projected increase since the year 2000.

In another study, a projected 60 percent of US business plan to employ the same number of graduates this year as with last year. That is an increase of fifty-five percent from last year, according to the CERI (Collegiate Employment Research Institute) at MSU.

According to recent studies, US Corporations and businesses will employ more graduates with a bachelor’s degree in business, biological and physical sciences. Those with construction management, engineering degrees, health care and accounting will also experience an increase in hiring. Other fields will have a slight decline.

On the average, companies are hiring forty three percent of its interns to fulltime and regular status. The expected increase in the hiring of graduates coincides with an expected growth forecast of the economy next year according to a recent survey by the Federal Reserve Bank.

A lot of companies are coming out of a slump and are now hiring their interns and looking for more. A lot of companies are posting truck jobs and coming into different campuses. "Best Truck Jobs"

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