The Trucker Chronicles

Earl L. Henderson Trucking Co and five of it’s drivers volunteered their services this holiday season to give back by honoring fallen war veterans. As part of the Wreaths Across America program, Henderson Trucking along with Truckload Carriers Association (TCA) delivered $10,000 worth of donated wreaths to Air Force veterans interred at the U.S. Air [...]

(Grain Valley, Mo., Nov. 30, 2011) – The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association (OOIDA) told Congress today that proposed changes to hours-of-service regulations are not only unnecessary but also unjustified and burdensome to small-business truckers. “Trucking has never been safer, yet federal regulators and big businesses continue to push for mandates that hurt small-business truckers,” said [...]

U.S. Transportation Secretary LaHood Announces Final Rule That Bans Hand-Held Cell Phone Use by Drivers of Buses and Large Trucks Today’s Action is the Latest by the Department to End Distracted Driving WASHINGTON – U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood today announced a final rule specifically prohibiting interstate truck and bus drivers from using hand-held cell [...]

Thousands of the dirtiest and toughest jobs in New York are going unfilled, in sectors that pay well and could lift idle workers out of unemployment, without the heavy burden of college loans. Employers can’t find enough local workers to fill such jobs as auto mechanics, welders, plumbers, construction workers, diesel technicians, cleaners, janitors, truckers [...]

On October 3rd, 2011 K&B Transportation raised company driver pay to a whole new level with our new package.  With the new pay package, starting driver wages at K&B Transportation was boosted 4 cents per mile, to 38 cents per mile.  This mileage pay coupled with our long standing 2500 mile per week guarantee now [...]