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Truck Drivers Uniting

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The First Annual Truck Driver Social Media Convention is uniting, honoring, and giving a bona fide voice to the Professional CDL Driver. Those most concerned individuals, companies and organizations within trucking will meet with America’s Professional Truck Drivers to
address topics that most concern them: Government regulations, Truckers Rights, Driver Success Solutions, Trucking Career Solutions, Truck Driver Health, and the benefits of social media, sharing their message worldwide.

Tunica, MS (PRWEB) July 28, 2011 — October 15th 2011 in Tunica, MS at the Gold Strike Hotel, Allen & Donna Smith of AskTheTrucker.com will unite professional truck drivers as they host the First Annual Truck Driver Social Media Convention. This groundbreaking event is attracting drivers from Canada, Norway, and the
U.S. with more from Europe and Australia displaying their support of the event.
Professional drivers have recently felt the frustration of long hours, pay cuts, shortages of available safe parking, high fuel prices, increased regulations, cross border trucking, and anti-idling laws. Their gathering will be a symbol of unification and brotherhood as well as the opportunity to be informed and guided by trucking industry specialists and speakers in regards to how to create positive impact and obtain results through the power of social media.
Drivers are attending the trucker convention in order to network and meet those who they have been communicating with via social media. They have long awaited an event which would honor and pay tribute to professional drivers, those who continuously keep the nation moving.
Professional drivers have had for years a negative image portrayed upon them to the general population. The convention will bring more awareness and appreciation for professional drivers, as they are recognized and honored for their skill and sacrifices.
Those showing their support for professional drivers are sponsoring the truck convention: Dancing Skeletons Productions, Platinum Sponsor for the event. The Award winning video company will be taping the 16 hour event and will be creating a 2DVD set of highlights. The Gold sponsor for the event is Hodyon, the
manufacturer of the Dynasys APU, best in class APU that can be leased from the manufacturer though their own leasing program.
Silver Sponsors include; Pilot/Flying J, Challenge Magazine, AireDock,, and Safety First SleepSolutions.

OOIDA(Owner Operators Independent Drivers Association), Hotels4Trucker LLC, Trans Products
and Services, Lone Mountain Truck Leasing, TruckerToTrucker,The Truckers Forum, The Load Post, IdleAir and
XATAsoftware are the Bronze Sponsors.
Professional truck drivers in the past have lived a solitary lifestyle, spending weeks at a time alone, separated from friends and family. Since the introduction of social media, websites such as MySpace, FaceBook, and Twitter, drivers have been able to break the isolation and communication barrier by employing technology such
as smart phones and laptops, allowing them to communicate,network and now unite!
The truck driver convention is a day to unite, pay tribute, recognize, network, and discuss ideas and solutions for the issues affecting the professional driver and to “raise the standards of the trucking industry”

Seating is limited for this first of a kind event, uniting professional truck drivers ,and requires ticket reservations.
You can reserve your seat at http://www.TruckingSocialMedia.com

Sponsorship Requests: info@truckingsocialmedia.com
Allen Smith has been an advocate for the professional truck driver for over 5 years and offers drivers vital information through his many websites including: AskTheTrucker, TruthAboutTrucking, and the very popular internet radio show, “Truth About Trucking Live”.

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All For Liberty pays tribute to U.S. Armed Forces

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Written by David Ayers of Allen & Ayers Productions, in partnership with Barry Allen and co-written, performed by John Johnson, All For Liberty pays tribute to our men and women of the United States Armed Forces.

One of the great songs on the When the Big Rigs Don’t Roll music CD :

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John DiBattista to Perform at Truck Driver Convention

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: John DiBattista

John DiBattista was born and raised in Toronto, Canada and has been involved in music his entire life. His unique and distinct voice, blending country rock, blues and folk music through his own original songs, began catching people’s attention as early as the age of fourteen.

At the age of 17, he began performing through out the United States, winning competitions everywhere he went.

His vocals and music have been described as “unique”, “powerful” and “extraordinary” as displayed in this YouTube video where he performs, “Just in Time“, one of his original songs dedicated to the memory of Marilyn Monroe:

John DiBattista has agreed to perform as the opening act at the upcoming 1st Annual Truck Driver Social Media Convention . . . just himself and his guitar.

Reservations to attend have been extended to Thursday, September 1st, 2011. Reserve your seat ASAP and see why John continues to build a large following fan base.

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Heavy Highway Vehicle Use Tax due date has been delayed by the IRS until November.

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Attention Truckers!!

The IRS Form 2290, also known as the Heavy Highway Vehicle Use Tax has been delayed by the IRS until November. Click here for full details from the IRS.gov website.

The 2011-2012 IRS Form 2290 will be due between November 1st and 30th.

If you need help with your IRS Form 2290, or if you have questions please contact www.2290Tax.com. They are a family owned and operated company in California that has been in trucking for four generations.

If you would like to e-file at 2290Tax.com, AskTheTrucker.com has secured a special Promo Code to save you money. Just type in “ASK” for to save 10% off the e-filing service fee.

Call Casey or Jim at 2290Tax.com toll free — 888-802-4299 M-F from 8:30am — 5:00pm pacific time with your questions and concerns.

And don’t forget to e-file your Form 2290!

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Survey Results for Company Owner Operator Lease Purchase Plan

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72% of Drivers voted – SCAM

The long-haul trucking industry is notorious for taking advantage of those in desperate situations. From the CDL schools and the motor carriers who operate in such a manner, thousands are pulled in by the promises of big money by the trucking company owner operator lease purchase programs.

After having gone public about this consumer abuse within the industry nearly five years ago, the company truck lease purchase options are still going strong and continues to be a huge money-maker for the motor carrier.

I began the Owner Operator Lease Purchase Program Survey on November 9th, 2009 and brought it to a close on February 3rd, 2011. After nearly 15 months, 3,611 professional truck drivers responded, offering their own insight into these company truck leases.

After five and a half months, I have completed analyzing the data received. Several years ago, I had ran across an independent study by an accountant who showed that these programs had an 87% driver failure rate. This survey was performed in order to provide a more current, up-to-date evaluation on these company lease plans.

Unlike the other study, the results of this survey will never be taken down from the world wide web and will remain available for those considering becoming an owner operator through one of these trucking companies lease purchase options.

The survey results are provided by two means:

PDF download
Informational Website at : Trucking Company Lease Purchase Programs for Owner Operators

Although there are company lease drivers who have done well with these lease programs, this current survey still shows that the majority of these trucking company lease purchase programs are designed for the driver to fail.

Special thanks to all of the 3,611 drivers who took the time and made the effort to participate in this survey.

Allen Smith

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Are unnecessary trucking regulations burdening our industry and our economy?

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Richard Wilson of Trans Products and Services

Physical year 2010 saw the highest upswing in regulatory costs in our country’s history. This Administration has singlehandedly increased regulatory spending by 1.75 trillion Dollars. (US Chamber of Commerce figures) In these tough times of economic rebuilding we need to cut spending and utilize our current regulations as they have proven to work and reduce highway deaths, serious injuries, and improve loss ratios of companies for damage to equipment.

CSA was developed and introduced in December 2010, to improve and make drivers accountable for their personal actions. The FMCSA guaranteed that Driver Data would be held in the strictest confidence so only current or prospective employers would have access to this information. We now find out that that was a LIE! John Hill, the former FMCSA Administrator said,” The agency intended years ago to go public with driver data.” Currently the FMCSA has requested with the submission of the Highway reauthorizations’ bill that it grant FMCSA the authority to release publicly the Drivers DSMS information.

When asked if the intention was to create a public driver ranking system similar to the agency’s CSA motor carrier percentile ranking system, FMCSA spokeswoman Candice Tolliver said, “The Department of Transportation is committed to working with Congress to address this issue as part of a comprehensive push to update transportation programs and maintain the highest standards of safety for the American public.”When asked to clarify her answer, as usual dead silence!
With the FMCSA putting committees together of Law enforcement, Safety Advocacy, groups, Trucking organizations (representing only a small fraction of regulated commercial carriers, the very large ones), and a few token of so called representatives from the trucking side; (remember the organization, that represented the large carriers? Those carriers) to set regulations on the requirements of how to obtain EOBR Data from the on boards of the mandatory EOBR’s that EVERY, that’s right EVERY Commercial vehicle that is currently required to, or has ever done a log.

This would include vehicles 10,001 or greater that went outside of the 150 air mile exemption to travel to sites to do construction or other service related to their profession, not for hire or private revenue generated motor carriers. In essence, companies using commercial motor vehicle to move manpower and supplies not FREIGHT! The additional cost factors of installation and the additional cost of either internet, or satellite base data transfer with no way to recoup costs. This equipment doesn’t generate revenue off of hauling.
So, again we need more regulations that will cost more money with no way to recoup it, we need more regulations that the FMCSA will have to be appropriated more money from the working Americans to enforce and lose drivers because of the information that will be plastered all over the DATA network. These are solutions to decrease the already declining accident rate, and or fatality rate of our industry. Messing with what works, costing more money without increased revenue to help replace costs, no new tax breaks for small or medium carriers to install EOBR’s, sounds to me like a disaster waiting to happen, not a cure for a struggling economy! Andy Card, former White House Staff for the Bush administration put it in perspective, “every new regulation will cost the American small business employer, with less than 20 employees, $10,000 per employee.” I say every new regulation the FMCSA sneaks by will cost the American Small Trucker as well as the largest freight company and average of $250,000 in equipment, Training, and qualifying of new employees to replace those lost to the new regulations.

NOTE: Richard Wilson is the well known speaker on DOT regulations who will be presenting at the 2011 Truck Driver Convention in October. Richard will be a part of the expert panel that will also be taking questions as part of the 3 Hour Open Forum Discussion at the convention.

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