Wives and partners of truckies are at home running the household, communicating budget requirements, angst, constraints, and leisure spending to their driver.
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Stop banging heads and get your heads together
“Keep it up and I’ll bang your heads together”.
A common phrase the older people in the industry would have heard their parents say to them when nitpicking with their siblings.
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Where are the people paid to look after drivers’ safety?
Being ‘SAFE’ is a reasonable expectation of every truck driver when parking at a roadhouse or truck stop.
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It’s time to stop with the Band-Aid safety initiatives and just fix it
Our drivers are our world and want them to always get home safely, but sometimes we just wonder how far the think tanks will go with their ongoing ‘safety’ initiatives.
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The silly season is coming, but at what cost to the driver?
Silly season is nearly here for another year, so we want to take the opportunity to wish all the trucking families a very Merry Christmas and to thank our drivers for all that they do.
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Partners of drivers still have it rough
Gone are the days of the little woman sitting at home kowtowing to their driver’s every whim and being bored and neurotic.
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Look overseas for drivers? Why we have to fix problems at home first
Many trucking families have suffered through the good and bad of the heavy vehicle industry. As ‘Bored Neurotic Housewives’ we’ve travelled the high and low roads with our driver, trying hard to keep it all together.
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‘If we don’t have our voices heard, how can we expect change?’
As partners we always support our drivers, but week after week we see headlines like Fines and fees go up, and 30-year industry veteran is selling up, making it very disheartening as a family and even harder to keep our driver focused.
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Trust doesn’t come easy, it’s earned
Trust.
It’s a big word for just a few letters.
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Is technology making us safer, or just adding more distractions?
How many distractions do we need in the workplace? A Bored Neurotic Housewife (BNH) has kids, phone, partner, meals, budget, etc.
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