Retiring a Truck: Choosing the Right Time
Deciding the right time to retire your companion on the road can be a difficult decision. Wear and tear or new technology are just a few reasons many truckers opt to trade in their rig. It’s important to take in a variety of factors when planning out a trade cycle for your vehicles. Retiring a truck can be a daunting and emotional process, so it’s important to know when, and how to park your big rig for good. Trade Cycles A trade...
Would You Pass a Roadside Inspection?
Whether it’s a checkpoint or a faulty taillight, a roadside inspection can happen at any time. Recently, roadside inspections have become the norm for the simple fact that commercial drivers are held to a higher standard. But, is all this time and energy put into roadside inspections really making a difference? Roadside Inspection – Would You Pass It? The Data Numbers don’t lie and 5.5 million is a pretty big one. According to...
Convoy Creatures: The Wild Words of Trucking
Although there’s lots of alone time on the road, truckers are always communicating via their CB radios. Whether traveling in a convoy or passing others on the road, there’s always something to say within the limited signal range. Truckers ought to at least be familiar with the 10-codes. However, beyond the standard jargon, there’s a world of slang with some pretty wild words for everyday encounters on the road. As a rookie, hearing...
Recognizing and Avoiding Aggression on the Road
If you’re anything like me, you love good news; like hearing about deserving people that have won the lottery, or shelter animals being adopted, or even just general acts of kindness. In my opinion, good news is something we hear pretty regularly in the trucking industry. Now, you may be rolling your eyes at that, but you can’t deny that it’s pretty common to hear about heroic truckers doing something amazing, or...
Catching Cliques in the Trucking Industry
Alright, we’ve all seen it – the video went viral, and the veteran driver faced the consequences when he was fired within 24 hours of rudely refusing to help out a rookie. If you haven’t seen it, long story short – a new driver asks a driver with a lot of experience to pull up a little a bit so that he can more easily maneuver his own truck. Shockingly, the veteran driver not only refuses, but also verbally abuses the newbie, while...
Christmas-Themed Roadside Attractions Worth Stopping For
This season while you’re kind of acting like a real-life Santa Claus in a way, delivering all the presents to the stores this holiday season, make some time to enjoy some festive sights scattered across the country. So in the weeks leading up to Christmas, let’s pretend our rigs are reindeer-pulled sleighs and jingle ourselves all the way to some seriously Christmassy spots! A Christmas Story House & Museum...