VIRAL TIKTOK TRUCKER ARGUES IN FAVOR OF THE INDUSTRY

With amassing student debt, Americans are looking for lucrative alternatives to a four-year college degree and trucking is proving to be a light at the end of the tunnel for many. A 24-year-old social media star, who goes by “Alex the Trucking Guy” on TikTok, has built an enormous following extolling his life on the road as a trucker. Since the start of the pandemic, Alex has garnered over a million and a half followers across all of social media, allowing viewers to ride along with him as he documents the job of a truck driver traveling cross-country. Read more

LOGISTICS RESTRUCTURING AT SUPERMARKET MORRISONS WILL CUT UP TO 300 JOBS

Supermarket Morrisons is planning to restructure its supply chain and logistics operations, with warehouse manager roles at all seven distribution sites set to be truncated with a five-over-seven working week reinstated from last April. Documents seen by The Grocer show how Morrisons plans “to consolidate the number of warehouse manager roles at each site to a single operations manager role. It will also remove team manager roles in its ambient supply chain, reduce roles in its chilled chamber and reduce the number of managers and coordinators working within canteen teams.” Read more

DEAF DRIVER BECOMES A TCA TRUCK DRIVER OF THE YEAR

Deaf truck driver Richard Boehrer, one of the Truckload Carriers Association’s (TCA) five 2023 Drivers of the Year, had always dreamed of someday becoming a truck driver. His path was not without pushback, as “even Boehrer’s uncle, who was a professional driver, couldn’t offer encouragement to the aspiring driver.” He went on to tell his nephew that it would be “impossible” with his impairment to ever drive a big rig, especially with past regulations requiring that all drivers be able to hear. Read more…

TRUCKER JOBS PORTRAYED ON STAGE IN FLORIDA

Dramatist David Proctor’s new one-person play, “Grabbing the Hammer Lane: a Trucker narrative,” is Proctor’s newest stage drama about a truck driver’s life on the road. The Orlando Performer, a website devoted to theater in Central Florida, exults: “Patrons of this show should be prepared to feel a wide range of emotions. In the beginning, there is gentle humor and subtle light jokes scattered throughout. [Later], emotions soar between anger and sadness. It is genuinely moving. This show deals with addiction, forgiveness and loss and has a moral of ‘Tell the ones you are close to, that you love them.’” Read more