Category: Trucks

For company drivers who want but can’t have in-truck climate control, here’s a proposition that we imagine can be made between them…

Continue Reading A Proposition Between Drivers and Trucking Companies on APUs

One flashlight may not be as good as another when you’re a professional driver. In order to find the one…

Continue Reading Truckers’ Flashlight Buying Guide – Light How You Need It

In her May 19, 2013, article, Wendy Parker wrote about a financial penalty — a fine — that truckers who arrive…

Continue Reading Financial Penalty for Missed Appointment, Late Arrival by Trucker?

When folks look at your truck, is the first thing they see the dash trash — the stuff you have…

Continue Reading Dash Trash: What a Trashy Looking Truck Says and Does

There are at least two types of commercial truck leasing: the kind where a driver (or trucking company) never owns…

Continue Reading Commercial Truck Leasing: Beware of Designed-to-Fail Schemes

The most difficult trucking maneuver for many to master is how to back up safely. There are several backing situations…

Continue Reading Safely Back Up Your Tractor Trailer; Truck Backing Situations

When a professional truck driver has a working truck cam — also known as a “smart cam” or “dash cam”…

Continue Reading How a Truck Cam, Smart Cam or Dash Cam Can Save Truckers Money

When we read USA Today’s 2011 article about pay-by-the-mile (or pay per mile) car taxes, we immediately saw both the bad and the good…

Continue Reading Pay Per Mile: One View of Pay-By-The-Mile Taxes for Truckers

Student drivers learn the theory of how not to get hot brakes when driving downhill in a big rig. But the…

Continue Reading Hot Brakes or Worse: Improperly Driving Downhill in a Big Truck

The concept of driverless cars, driverless trucks and autonomous vehicles may run a shudder up the spine of every professional…

Continue Reading Will Driverless Trucks Ever Take Over the Trucking Industry?