There's something to listen to for just about any environment. I have one pandora station for rush hour and another for more mellow in-between...
I drove a '15 International for a few years. It was a complete turd. Cruise control would cut off every few minutes. When the cruise was gone, so...
See what carrier is pulling their trailers in your area. I spent years on that account with USX running out of Marion IN. You can make good money...
US Xpress has a Dollar General account that could meet your needs. Weekly resets at home. I'm not completely sure but I think they might allow...
Spot on. 10 hours goes by way too fast when you cram all of the above mentioned things into it. I frequently get more sleep on the nights that I...
It can be pretty soul-sucking, for sure.
I think my wife wanted to kill me for awhile after I left my old OTR job and messed up her routine. There was definitely a transitional period.
I took a semi-local job 8 years ago so I could be a bigger part of my daughter's childhood. Since then I've logged a little over a million miles...
My worst experience with truck stops has been waking during the night to tell a lot lizard to get lost. Worst overall experience was pulling...
What's harder than a short trailer is 2 short trailers. I didn't pull a gravel trailer long enough to master it but I had a couple successful 90...
It's good to have a healthy respect for the equipment but don't let it become a debilitating fear. Pay attention to your training. Maintain...
I used to like staying in smaller towns back in the dollar store days. I'd just walk around town and see what's there. Some great mom n pop...
This reminds me of my first week my own. I realized I'd turned the wrong way on a narrow country road somewhere in Indiana. I saw a mobile home...
I was looking forward to seeing how the transition would work out for you when you switched to a self-dispatch system but I can totally relate to...
[ATTACH]I have one of these that I put behind me a few times a day for 10 or 15 minutes at a time. It can be moved around to work on everything...
I know a guy that lives in the truck full time. He seems to like it well enough but he's a single guy with no kids. He stays with relatives or...
My chiropractor likes to say "motion is the lotion".
At 17 years in, my body is doing a good deal of protesting as well. As a stubborn young man, I ignored people who advised me to put my wallet in...
I make mid 70s working 5 days a week at JB Hunt. That's with most nights spent at home and the same start time every day. I don't know what would...
I chewed nicotine gum and gradually started substituting regular gum. I still chew a lot of gum when I'm driving but I've been nicotine free for...
