Questions on Trucking from an author

This is an important thing to consider. Is this an employee driver or an owner operator? They have completely different motivations and reasons to be in Maine in the first place. And this aspect would also affect and define “the character” in general.

 

Was that after the load of Coors ?

 

They wouldn't haul feminine products on a flatbead. I have hauled them and they were in a dry van.

CT can be the end of the line, if he has a reason to go there like going home or a girlfriend, etc.

 

Yes having him pick up there, running it to Groton or Waterbury would put you into CT near New York.

 

There’s flatbed freight runs out of Maine to points all over the USA. Various home building products like fiberboard

An owner operator would give the writer a lot more realistic flexibility and options to write in.

 

Truckers like to call each other driver especially over the CB. Truck stop parking lots smell like pee. The industry seems have good fish stories.

If You're looking for some humor it's a good industry to play off of. Lol.

We use electronic logs now on a computer mounted on our dash. We get our dispatches on that computer too. It's called a Qualcomm. Your character would probably drive about 10 hours a day and then have to take a 10 hour break. Thats when they go to the truck stop, park in the fuel island to take a shower. Then move over to the weigh station park and sleep.

 

You’re assuming the author is wanting to write non-fiction?

 

They mentioned they wanted to make it as real as possible, driver.