In recent polls, truck drivers indicated that the main factor in choosing a company to work for was high pay. Not even weekly home time topped salary as the best reason truckers chose to drive for a particular company.

Air Liquide is a gas company offering qualified drivers $50,000 to $70,000 a year on average. Furthermore, since the transportation of gasses is especially dangerous, they offer safety incentives and company training in addition to their quarterly and annual profit sharing bonuses.

Dot Foods is a private carrier transporting grocery goods. While there are only a few areas hiring truck drivers, those who meet requirements can expect an average of $900 a week and $.37 - $.41 cpm for the first year as well as bonuses and pay for actual miles, layovers, pick-up and detention.

Tyson Foods offers truck drivers $.39 - $.42 cpm to start in addition to an annual safety bonus. Also, if you have a single trip under 500 miles, Tyson pays an extra $.03 cpm and for single trips under 250 miles, they pay $.06 cpm. In addition, Tyson offers paid vacation, jury pay, drop and pick-up pay, layover pay, unloading pay, bereavement pay and short term disability.

Boise is a private carrier looking for truck drivers to transport their paper products. Boise is a good carrier to drive for because they have plenty of freight. They offer $.86 - $.93 per loaded mile (plus a fuel surcharge) and $.74 per empty mile. Boise offers $50 for each extra stop as well as referral bonuses.

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Automobiles are just a part of our daily life these days. It is hard to remember a time when cars were not a common feature on the road - for most of us, there was no such time in our lifetimes. Sometimes it is hard for us to even realize the huge social impact of the car.

The social impact of the car is actually very extensive. It extends beyond just the way we travel - the social impact of the car can be felt in the way we date and mate, eat, live, view life, and beyond.

From the very beginning, a person’s status related greatly as to whether or not he owned an automobile. A man with a Model T Ford was a very important man, indeed. Today, too, a person is judged by what type of car he has, or if he even has one. Before checking out a man or a woman as a possibility for a date, you may just check out his or her “wheels.”

Even when automobiles were very first hitting the roads, they changed the ways in which we date and mate. The social impact of the car extends to what people did and do on dates. For one thing, the backseat of a car offers so many more possibilities than a doorstep or front porch. Who knows how many babies have been conceived in the backseats of cars over the years?

Of course, let us back up a bit here. Before a couple on a date hits the backseat of a car, they have been affected by cars in other ways. The other activities that a couple does on a date are different, as well. They have more possibilities. They can easily go meet friends across town at a diner. They may even eat their dinner food inside the car at a drive-inn. And after they eat at a drive-inn, where might they go, but a drive-inn movie theater, of course!

Besides drive-inn diners, the automobile brought about drive-up windows at fast food restaurants. Along with the car - which brought us speed on the road and convenience for being where we want to be when we want to be there - we got a need for fast food, as well. The automobile did not simply fasten our paces on the road, the automobile quickened our pace in life. Now we must do so many things in a day, and do them quickly. And because of these new hurried lives that we lead, we need fast food, as well.

The social impact of the car extends to how our cities are built, as well. People can now live further away from cities. They can commute to work. In fact, long commutes have just become a part of daily life. Huge strip malls have been built and gigantic super stores - people can now drive to these and shop at them with ease, and then they can load up all of their purchases into the backs of their cars with ease.

Neighborhoods are being built without sidewalks because people no longer walk anywhere… they drive. People are less likely to be out walking in their neighborhoods and stop to talk to other out walking. Neighbors are becoming more like strangers.

The social impact of the car is so extensive that it is almost impossible to untangle from our daily lives. In fact, the social impact of the car extends to how we even view life. The onset of automobiles gave people a new freedom that they had never experienced before. With automobiles, people could view life as an “open road.” People could travel more easily to the store or even across country. They no longer had to plan their travels around the train schedule or other schedules.

Nothing is or was as freeing as simply being out on the open road. The social impact of the car is so much more than any of this. There is hardly any aspect of your American life that has not been affected by the automobile. The social impact of the car is much more expansive than any other modern-day invention… even more so than that of the computer.

Anne Clarke writes numerous articles for websites on gardening, parenting, fashion, and home decor. Her background includes teaching and gardening, as well as broader social issues and issues about the environment. For more of her articles on social issues and cars, please visit Specialty Car Parts.

Are you looking for new business to get into? Well, if you love cars and you’ve always been a car buff then perhaps starting an auto detailing company this Summer might be right for you. Auto detailing in the summer months means you get a tan and you get to work outside and if you love cars that is another bonus.

The good thing about auto detailing is that people love their cars and there are 250 million of these cars in United States of America presently. And as automakers sell over 17 million cars per year there are always new cars to detail, as well as old cars that need to be refurbished.

One thing about auto detailing is that if you do a good job then the word will get around very fast and you will help lots of referrals and always have a completely filled schedule. Of course there is a Catch-22 in that you may have a waiting list of the several weeks long. The better you are of course the more money you can charge from all the referrals you will get and thus the more people who will pay you the extra dollars because they want you to do it and not someone else.

Auto detailing can be fun business and also challenging when you get a real dog. Most of the cars you will clean and detail will be pristine, however every once awhile you’ll get a car you wish you never met. But, this is one of the challenges that all car detailing company’s face and this is what separates the men from the boys. Consider this in 2006.

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