A little over 10 years ago I was doing reefer runs out to the East Coast and my inlaws decided they would do me a favor and buy me a nicer winter...
Trucker friendly GPS, an online search, good old fashioned maps, calling ahead, a combination of these or what else if anything? I am leaning...
Denadii Cho: Thank you for the complement about my writing style. I have been at best a contributing writer and am working on leaving an editorial...
I was fortunate enough to be raised by a trucker father but even with all he taught me I was guilty of a few parking screwups when I was a rookie....
I used to work out of Cerritos across from a big food plant (Kraft?) driving straight trucks and too often I would be rolling back in from the...
Thank you to everyone so far for replying to this thread, especially CA Medicine Woman for the well written answers and examples. I took it all in...
The point I was trying to make was that even with relevant experience one can easily get hurt or worse and not accepting that you do not have...
Hello. Reading this thread again reminded me of the sweetest dispatcher I ever had the honor and pleasure of working for, Betty B, a very busty...
Have you ever worked with someone who at his best could be called an insufferable SOB or the like? Well I have a few times in my working years and...
Several years back I pulled into the Flying J in Ripon, California very early on a foggy morning with a cold load of apple products bound for San...
I have mixed feelings as to what makes one trainer or training method better than another, based partly upon my own experiences which include some...
I once worked with a new guy, who as he drove loved to hang just back of and to the side of any rig he could for the shade when it was too hot out...
I second the recommendation on the place and when I hauled out of the Bud Brewery down the line at Fort Collins I tried to always stop in for at...
I appreciate the straightforward advice and I will be following it. As of today a local company has agreed to hire me in January as a part time...
Hello. I am new to this site and want any advice on switching over from driving straight Class A & B trucks to driving tractor trailers. I have a...
