Sentences with phrase «year as a truck»

He then worked for 3 years as a truck driver, until he ran into an old college buddy who now worked for IBM, which was developing the Profits Infinity system.

«Chevrolet recently celebrated 100 years as a truck maker,» said Sandor Piszar, director of Marketing, Chevrolet Trucks.

This post will simply serve as some observations that I've made trying to survive my first year as a truck driver.

And here is proof of the power of the simulators: One of our instructors, Gary Allman, worked for a state college for six years as a truck driving instructor.

The nation wide driver shortage provides you the opportunity to make between $ 40,000.00 to $ 70,000.00 per year as a truck driver.

The difference in pay over the entire duration of your training is insignificant when you consider you'll be averaging a minimum of $ 30k to $ 40k within your first 1 to 2 years as a truck driver.

Not exact matches

Barbara Corcoran took an interest and six years later, Cousins Maine Lobster has become a national lobster franchise with 20 trucks in more than a dozen cities and some brick - and - mortar restaurants as well.

Government austerity turned into a speed bump last year for Navistar, which makes military vehicles, as well as school buses and long - haul freight trucks.

As a result, the automaker has recalled a record 15.8 million cars and trucks in North America so far this year.

«I never imagined in a million years that food trucks would have expanded into so many other markets, such as our education system,» he confesses.

As a 100 % employee - owned company, Inland Truck Parts & Service has been providing superior truck parts and service throughout the Great Plains for 74 years.

After four years of strong sales increases — and limited discounts — as the economy improved, U.S. demand for new cars and trucks is expected to slow this year.

As has been the case for the past couple of years, SUVs and trucks are still in demand.

Earlier this year, researchers at the University of Michigan found that the average fuel economy of new, light vehicles (a designation that includes cars, SUVs, vans and pickup trucks) had reached 25.4 miles per gallon, as compared to 20.8 mpg in 2007.

The company's U.S. unit is also ramping up production of electric sanitation and delivery trucks, as well as buses, at a new in Lancaster, California, that factory that opened late this year in anticipation of growing demand.

The Juice and Smoothie Production industry has grown steadily over the last five years as mobile juice trucks have adapted to the rapidly changing consumer preferences and lifestyle.

SAN FRANCISCO — Walt Martin spent a decade as a long - haul truck driver, logging as many as 200,000 miles a year on the road.

But as gas prices drifted lower last year, U.S. consumers trading old vehicles for new favored pricey pickup trucks, SUVs and luxury cars.

But we accept the five - year phaseout as a far better outcome than the highly protectionist phaseout of U.S. tariffs, which will delay the elimination of the 25 - per - cent «chicken» tariff applied to pickup truck imports in the United States for 30 years.

It's the year of the pickup truck at the 2018 North American International Auto Show in Detroit as General Motors, Fiat Chrysler and Ford unveil new trucks in a fast - growing and highly competitive U.S. auto market.

The brutalities of the Chinese regime have also had a toxic effect on China's public moral culture, as was demonstrated last year in a widely - viewed YouTube video: a truck driver in a Chinese city ran over a small child who was crawling across the street, stopped» and then ran over the child again, as if the toddler were so much road - kill.

Germany's interior minister originally pinpointed a 23 - year - old Pakistani refugee as a suspect, but law enforcement officials later said that «it is actually not clear» if the man in custody was the truck driver.

I'm so used to seeing that Calvinish - style (as in Calvin and Hobbes) cartoon on the back window of pickup trucks peeing on the logo of the opposing university football team that I guess David's cartoon lost its impact years ago.

To help address the issue of getting healthy, local food in food deserts, Metropolis Farms will operate two buses year - round as food trucks that offer prepared meals in those areas.

JoeFroyo Founder and CEO Zach Miller said, «We've been serving JoeFroyo all over the country for the past 4 years as a frozen dispensed beverage, and we've also had our trucks out doing taste - testing projects at marathons and other events.

He went on to spend 25 years as executive chef at the Springwood Retirement Campus in Arvada before moving to Texas to join his son in starting a food truck that sells deep - fried Cajun turkey.

Aussie Farmers was one of the first players in online grocery deliveries, starting out 13 years ago as a three - person, one - truck milk delivery service.

TOMRA's sorting solutions help increase the yield of produce by 5 - 10 procent or as much as 25,000 trucks of potatoes every year.

Also new this year is the addition of two gourmet food trucks, a fun trend happening around the country, as top chefs put their award winning restaurant menus «on the road» in city streets, parks and catered events.

Thomas has never been wealthy, and in the last year, he's been busy with a new job as a truck driver.

Ferrara, who made his movie debut as a 10 - year - old in 1986 when he dodged a truck in F / X, got into the biz through his father, Frank Sr., a stunt coordinator who is James Gandolfini's double in The Sopranos.

He was rookie of the year, and when Roush presented him with a chance to race in a Cup event the day after a truck event, Busch jumped at it — even though it would be twice as long as the races he usually ran.

Mobile feeding is particularly advantageous during the summer months, but the trend toward using mobile trucks is gaining plenty of traction during the school year as well.

With the Chicago pilot program as its model, Kraft has committed to spend $ 4.5 million on 25 trucks that will work in six other cities in the next three years, including New York, San Antonio and Madison, Wis..

Our Bolga Depot was shut down for so many years, the pipeline from Buipe to Bolga was not operational, today we are pumping fuel from Buipe to Bolga and we are loading 40 trucks a day to Burkina Faso and Mali, I mean if that is not economic progress, I don't know what else anybody will call economic progress, yes we've been through a period of challenges and we've had to make sacrifices as citizens but I believe that in everyone's life, there are times when you have to make sacrifices in order that things get better for the future, we are working to ensure that we create a better future for not only our citizens of today but for our citizens of tomorrow.

Federal transportation regulators cited a Walmart truck driver's fatigue as the chief cause of a crash last year that killed the comedian James McNair and critically injured Tracy Morgan, a star of the television series «30 Rock.»

He plans to roll out his campaign statewide in the coming days and is committed to being a full - time candidate for the next seven months, as the 65 - year - old Teamster recently retired from a position unloading trucks for UPS.

Reynoso, who's been Chief of Staff to Councilmember Diana Reyna for the past four years, sees truck - route calming and enforcement as well as expanding the bike lane network for Bushwick and Ridgewood as huge opportunities to improve life in his district.

PARAMUS, N.J. — A 10 - year - old girl has been identified as the second victim who died when the school bus she was on collided with a dump truck on Route 80 on Thursday.

The owners of the Wandering Dago, run at the time by Andrea Loguidice and Brendan Snooks, filed suit in August 2013 against employees and leaders of OGS, including Commissioner RoAnn Destito and Executive Deputy Commissioner Joe Rabito, as well as the New York Racing Association, which ejected the truck from the Saratoga Race Course in July of that year.

ALBANY — A Capital Region food truck as notable for its controversial name as for its fusion barbecue fare scored a significant victory at the end of a years - long legal battle with Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration, which had banned the Wandering Dago from serving its offerings on the Empire State Plaza.

As a working Teamster who unloaded trucks overnight at UPS until March of this year, Hawkins earned close to the median household income for his home town of Syracuse ($ 32,704 in 2016).

Sutley, for her part, came to the post after a four - year stint as a deputy mayor in Los Angeles, where she also oversaw climate change and energy policy, including restraining emissions from diesel trucks at area ports as well as promoting solar energy by setting a goal of generating 10 percent of the city's electricity from the sun by 2020.

Ford found eight years ago that replacing metal with carbon fibre for the wishbone springs supporting the axles of its 7.5 - tonne trucks could save as much as 40 kilograms per axle.

Several researchers from KTH are participating in the project, including Lima and Wahlberg, who together with Jonas Mårtensson have spent the last two years developing the truck's control algorithm so that it is as accurate and reliable as possible.

But by the time of T. rex's heyday, about 68 million years ago, the ferocious beast was up to 12 meters long, as long as a truck trailer.

Thus, as cars and trucks drive over and wear away the pavement, the salt could continually be released — potentially for years.

Light trucks were only 10 % of the car market in 1980, but in recent years (with SUVs, which are classified as light trucks) about 50 % of the new car market.

Only a year and a half ago, Heath Fuqua was living in a truck fitted out as a camper and trying to figure out what he was going to do with the rest of his life after eight years in the army, much of it spent in the Middle East.

But there was actually a study published last year showing that the phthalates found in chicken were significantly associated with less masculine behavior in boys, such as playing less with trucks, and more with dolls, for example.