As you know, Daylight Savings Time ends this Sunday November 2nd. At 2:00 am clocks will fall back one hour.

Please be advised that this will affect the 34-hour restart for drivers who are taking their restart break during that time. Drivers will still need to show two breaks from 1:00 am – 5:00 am on their logs. Even though this will require a 35-hour break, it will eliminate violations of the two 1:00 am – 5:00 am break criteria for this Sunday and next week.

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It’s almost that time of year again….Open Enrollment for the 2015 Benefit Year will begin on October 1 and run to October 31, 2014.

This year’s on-site benefit enrollment meetings will be held at locations with at least 10 full-time employees. Check with your terminal manager on the day or days that have been chosen for your location’s open enrollment meeting. Each of you has the opportunity to attend a private 1-to-1 session with a benefit counselor. In that session, you’ll learn how personal insurance products can enhance your current benefit package, and can be customized to fit your individual needs.

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Your 401k retirement plan statement for the quarter ending October 31, 2014 is now available online! To view or print your statement, just log into principal.com to view account information.

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It’s almost that time of year again….Open Enrollment for the 2015 Benefit Year will begin on October 1 and run to October 31, 2014.

This year’s on-site benefit enrollment meetings will be held at locations with at least 10 full-time employees. Check with your terminal manager on the day or days that have been chosen for your location’s open enrollment meeting. Each of you has the opportunity to attend a private 1-to-1 session with a benefit counselor. In that session, you’ll learn how personal insurance products can enhance your current benefit package, and can be customized to fit your individual needs.

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FEELING TIRED? Please know your warning signs of fatigue: Yawning, watery or sore eyes, daydreaming, feeling uncomfortable in your seat, and the dangerous head nod. When these warning signs of being tired at the wheel begin to happen to you, pull over, take a power nap, or get out of the truck and refresh yourself. Understand what is happening, you need to get fresh oxygen in your brain. Taking an hour or more nap, puts the body in deep, rim sleep, when you wake up in an hour or so you will still be tired because you didn't get enough deep sleep to make a difference. A power nap of fifteen minutes or so will refresh the brain with new oxygen in the blood, and you will be better prepared to continue your trip.

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It’s almost that time of year again….Open Enrollment for the 2015 Benefit Year will begin on October 1 and run to October 31, 2014.

This year’s on-site benefit enrollment meetings will be held at locations with at least 10 full-time employees. Check with your terminal manager on the day or days that have been chosen for your location’s open enrollment meeting. Each of you has the opportunity to attend a private 1-to-1 session with a benefit counselor. In that session, you’ll learn how personal insurance products can enhance your current benefit package, and can be customized to fit your individual needs.

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It’s almost that time of year again….Open Enrollment for the 2015 Benefit Year will begin on October 1 and run to October 31, 2014.

This year’s on-site benefit enrollment meetings will be held at locations with at least 10 full-time employees. Check with your terminal manager on the day or days that have been chosen for your location’s open enrollment meeting. Each of you has the opportunity to attend a private 1-to-1 session with a benefit counselor. In that session, you’ll learn how personal insurance products can enhance your current benefit package, and can be customized to fit your individual needs.

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It’s almost that time of year again….Open Enrollment for the 2015 Benefit Year will begin on October 1 and run to October 31, 2014.

This year’s on-site benefit enrollment meetings will be held at locations with at least 10 full-time employees. Check with your terminal manager on the day or days that have been chosen for your location’s open enrollment meeting. Each of you has the opportunity to attend a private 1-to-1 session with a benefit counselor. In that session, you’ll learn how personal insurance products can enhance your current benefit package, and can be customized to fit your individual needs.

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The fall season brings a change of seasons and also different safety challenges for the professional driver. Schools are open again and school buses are around every corner. Children may be running to catch a bus or not paying attention when getting off a school bus so we need to be doubly careful. Darkness sets in sooner each passing day and visibility is consequently reduced. Beware of cars stopped along the highway, animal movement during night time hours, and the occurrence of other drivers dozing off and being in a hurry also increases. 

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