Apps to Help Truckers Live a Healthy Lifestyle
With a few changes to your lifestyle, putting in the effort, and some help from apps, you can live a healthier and happier lifestyle out on the road.
Don’t Wing It. It’s Time to Start Trip Planning
When you’re a long-haul truck driver, you’re your boss, which is great! But that also means that you are responsible for time management, or in this case, trip planning. Before you leave the yard, you should know: Where you are going. How long will it take to get to your destination. Where you will fuel [...]
Mountain Driving Tips
It’s easy to have a love-hate relationship with mountain driving. Most drivers love the beautiful scenery and the change from driving on a flat highway that looks the same mile after mile. It’s also kind of nice to hit flat topography after several straight days in the mountains.
A Few Things They Don’t Teach in Trucking School
To be honest, most of the skills truck drivers learn is learned on the job. That first year as a truck driver is tough as you really find out quickly how much more there is to being a truck driver other than driving.
Finding truck parking tips
Where do we safely park to comply with the HOS rules? That’s one of the challenges we face every day.
Ways to Save your Money While on the Road
It’s time to tighten up your purse strings. Have you been wondering where on earth does all your hard-earned money go? Don’t worry; you’re not the only one. You work hard for your money and make more sacrifices than the average workforce (along with your family), so it’s safe to say that you deserve to [...]
Truckers should be winter ready
It's important drivers are prepared. Inclement weather can easily shut you down in an area without services for truckers. Severe storms can strand you without services for days.
Debunking Trucking Myths
Don’t believe everything you hear. Between misconceptions and, well, the bad apples out there, the trucking industry can have a less than ideal reputation but the perception of trucking has recently received a boost
Three helpful apps for truck drivers
It's hard to imagine trucking before mobile devices. Remember plotting your route with a truckers atlas? Using payphones and calling cards?
Safety Doesn’t End with Operation Safe Driver Week 2020
As Operation Safe Driver wraps up it's important to remember that our focus on safety is more than a week-long enforcement blitz. Safety is our primary focus all the time.