Owner Driver

Aiming at soft targets

IT’S MORE often than not that truck drivers, especially those doing long-haul, feel they have a target on their heads when it comes to the long arm of the law. One slight slip-up, such as a few minutes over in the logbook, and there goes a week’s wages. No leniency there.

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