Tag Archive for ‘trucking industry’

Moving the Fuel Efficiency Needle

In 1977, the movie “Smokey and the Bandit” hit the theaters starring Burt Reynolds behind the wheel of his Pontiac Firebird, and Jerry Reed as a big-rig long-haul truck driver on a mission. The sports car sure has changed a lot since that movie. So has the tractor that Mr. Reed was driving, yet that [...]

A Driver’s Story – Encouraging the Next Generation

After graduating high school in 1976 I was living in an old steel/manufacturing town where there were few employment possibilities.  At that time continuing on to college just wasn’t an option.   I was 18 years old. I needed to decide what to do with my life. How do you know what you want to do [...]