http://www.classarecruiters.com News And Jobs Portal For The Truck Driving Community Wed, 19 Nov 2008 19:00:45 +0000 en http://www.classarecruiters.com/47 http://www.classarecruiters.com/47#comments Wed, 19 Nov 2008 19:00:45 +0000 admin http://www.classarecruiters.com/?p=47 Select International, headquarter in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, recently released RoadWorthy for use. RoadWorthy is an impartial assessment that helps in making informed and intelligent selection decisions when recruiting, selecting, hiring, and training new...]]> http://www.classarecruiters.com/47/feed http://www.classarecruiters.com/48 http://www.classarecruiters.com/48#comments Sun, 16 Nov 2008 19:00:05 +0000 admin http://www.classarecruiters.com/?p=48 Of interest to those with truck driving employment, Pilot Travel Centers has announced plans to become the first in its industry segment to carry diesel exhaust fluid, also known as urea, at its pumps. This component is needed to operate most...]]> http://www.classarecruiters.com/48/feed http://www.classarecruiters.com/49 http://www.classarecruiters.com/49#comments Fri, 14 Nov 2008 19:00:37 +0000 admin http://www.classarecruiters.com/?p=49 Beginning on October 15 and ending on April 15, a 65 miles-per-hour speed limit will be imposed on a stretch of Interstate 80 in Wyoming. The purpose of the wintertime measure, according to Wyoming Department of Transportation officials...]]> http://www.classarecruiters.com/49/feed http://www.classarecruiters.com/50 http://www.classarecruiters.com/50#comments Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:00:04 +0000 admin http://www.classarecruiters.com/?p=50 Jeffrey Stineman, the executive director of the National Truckers Association, is calling for help in enlisting thousands of US truckers to support a Free Commercial Trade Zone (FCTX) within the borders of the United States...]]> http://www.classarecruiters.com/50/feed http://www.classarecruiters.com/51 http://www.classarecruiters.com/51#comments Wed, 05 Nov 2008 19:00:57 +0000 admin http://www.classarecruiters.com/?p=51 Bill Graves, a former two-term governor of Kansas and now chairman and CEO of the American Trucking Associations, was surprisingly blunt during his state...]]> http://www.classarecruiters.com/51/feed http://www.classarecruiters.com/46 http://www.classarecruiters.com/46#comments Tue, 04 Nov 2008 04:10:31 +0000 admin http://www.classarecruiters.com/?p=46 Freightliner Trucks has served three owner-operator truck drivers a Slice of Life--a 2009 Freightliner Cascadia to drive and evaluate for one year. For their part, the selected drivers will write about their real world OTR driver jobs in...]]> http://www.classarecruiters.com/46/feed http://www.classarecruiters.com/41 http://www.classarecruiters.com/41#comments Fri, 10 Oct 2008 01:46:23 +0000 admin http://www.classarecruiters.com/?p=41 Only a small group of vehicles are visible at a stop roughly 15 miles or so on Bishop Rd. as workers are seen flattening hot, steaming asphalt and forming it onto a new surface. Just ahead of them, a second crew is filling humps on the surface of the road while a steamroller flattens asphalt... Read more]]> http://www.classarecruiters.com/41/feed http://www.classarecruiters.com/38 http://www.classarecruiters.com/38#comments Wed, 01 Oct 2008 21:01:40 +0000 admin http://www.classarecruiters.com/?p=38 The OOIDA is far from done with fighting the DAC in court. The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association filed a request last week in Denver so the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals can rehear a USIS Commercial Services case. This company compiles the employment history... Read more]]> http://www.classarecruiters.com/38/feed http://www.classarecruiters.com/39 http://www.classarecruiters.com/39#comments Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:57:53 +0000 admin http://www.classarecruiters.com/?p=39 According to Transportation Secretary Mary Peters, by the end of September, the highway trust fund should run out of funds. This, in turn, will delay payments normally made to states for construction and transportation projects. This fund is a federally backed... Read more]]> http://www.classarecruiters.com/39/feed http://www.classarecruiters.com/40 http://www.classarecruiters.com/40#comments Sat, 27 Sep 2008 02:20:32 +0000 admin http://www.classarecruiters.com/?p=40 Since oil prices peaked at their high of $150 per barrel, they have taken a nosedive of 30% as of late. So, oil ministers from OPEC are debating whether or not to cut oil production in order to stabilize its price. While no major cutbacks are predicted, a move like this could not have been dreamt of... Read more]]> http://www.classarecruiters.com/40/feed