10 Craziest Cargo Spills
This past weekend, an Indiana trucker lost his marbles. No, I don’t mean that he got cut off in traffic and took road rage to a whole new level. He literally lost his marbles, all 38,000 pounds of them. In Indiana’s state capital, a truck heading southbound on interstate 465 skidded off the road and overturned. Spilling out were nearly 20 tons of marbles. Luckily, there were no injuries, but traffic was backed up after one lane was...
Health Resolutions For Truckers
With 2017 right around the corner, it’s time to focus on your health. Just like taking care of your rig, you need to maintain the health of your body so you can stay in it for the long haul. While it can be tough to maintain a healthy lifestyle while on the road, there are a variety of ways you can make sure you’re eating properly and getting exercise. It’s time to make some health resolutions for 2017, and here are a few to get you...
Can Truck Drivers Prepare for a Driverless Future?
In the excitement of new, self-driving trucks, we often forget that it may end up costing 3.5 million truck drivers, and others, their livelihoods. In May we talked about the imminent future of driverless trucks. We mentioned many of the new self-driving technologies and some of the top companies’ future truck prototypes. But what we didn’t really talk discuss: the future of truck drivers in a driverless society. While talk of new...
Relationships on the Road: Dating a Truck Driver
We’ve all heard it before: life on the open road can get lonely for truckers. If you haven’t already found love by the time you become a truck driver, it may be hard to ever find it. Last year, we talked about some of the perks of online dating for truckers and a lot of our readers’ comments demonstrated just how hard it is to find a good relationships when you’re on the road. But why? Why is it that, in the trucking industry,...
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...
Let’s Be Thankful for Truck Drivers on Thanksgiving
With Thanksgiving only a few days away there seems to be never a dull moment as most of us scramble to pick out the plumpest last minute bird at the supermarket, clean our houses from top to bottom so Aunt Dorthy doesn’t judge us based on our housekeeping skills (or lack there of) and making sure that the DVR is already fired up and ready to record the parade. But with so much commotion going on for most people this time of year...