About: Brendan Dawson

It has been our privilege to do what we can to make trucker's lives a little easier on the road. It is for drivers like Benjamin Ferreira that we do what we do. ...

Drivers are being hassled for not having masks.  Reports are that Texas is writing tickets with a $1000 fine. We are doing are part for the war effort on the home front by making masks for truckers.

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Dear Friends, These are strange days indeed, aren’t they? While most of the nation has come to a grinding halt, the backbone of our economy seems to have remained strong, at least for now. While the rest of us are holed up in our homes, America’s drivers remain on the road, risking their health and safety to bring us our daily bread. Even in the best of times, truckers face the hardship of living on the road with limited facilities for basic human needs; sleep, food and hygiene. Today, sit-down...

I find it outrageous that hard-working truckers can't get a meal on the road.  Everyone else gets to go through the drive-through, but the big-rig just won't fit.  And the drive-throughs don't allow walk-up service. Please feed these folks.  They are busting ass to bring you the goods.

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What do you do when you are down to only one square of toilet paper per day?  

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While the rest of us are hunkered down in our homes, millions of drivers remain on the road.  Virus or not, we still need food, fuel and medicine.  The crops still need to be harvested and delivered.  The truckers are still out there, away from their homes and families, making it happen for us.

THANK YOU TRUCKERS!

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I hear the term “Big Brother” a lot lately, most often referring to technology in transportation. Telematics, ELDs and in-cab-cameras all carry the Big Brother stigma in the malevolent, overbearing and Orwellian sense of the word. I saw it most recently in the Insurance Journal article outlining the struggle for the commercial auto insurance segment to become profitable. The piece by Andrea Wells makes several references to technology as Big Brother, the all knowing, all seeing eye. The notion...