Trucking USA

I don’t care if you’re company, lease driver or O.O., you will either find yourself living by a set of rules or you will fail as a long haul driver.
Just like at home, if you live over your budget, you will go without for a few days to make up for it. The same on [...]

Over 1200 drivers were stranded all over the U.S. They woke up one morning to a phone call from the home office telling them to take their trucks to the nearest dealership. In exchange, they were to receive $200 to get them home.
Now I want you folks to think about that one. First, when a [...]

This is for all the stranded Arrow drivers. There is a massive move to help you folks get home. There is also the beginnings of a collection to be presented to the most needy of the bunch. More news on that, later.
Right now you can sign on to these sites and find help from other [...]

Back in the day, we ran convoy as often as possible. That is to say, the ‘garbage haulers’ as they used to call us. Hauling fresh produce from CA to NY. I guess they called it ‘garbage hauler’ because in the old days, it wasn’t a refrigerated unit, it was ice and re-ice across the [...]

This was an incident that happened to a friend of mine, many years ago. A trucker, hauling furniture.
You have to remember that back in the day, there were no interstates. The finest of highways were divided 4 lanes with side traffic.
In this particular situation, he was on a 2 lane road, driving on packed snow [...]

Now this was a handed down story, set back in the late 60’s or early 70’s. There have been a lot of improvements to highways and off ramps and such, since then.  Around NJ and NY, there were off ramps from highways that were really not meant for long trailers. Some areas were so small [...]

This one I heard from another driver, many years ago. It seems the boss sent his nephew out with one of this drivers. Not in the same truck, just on the same run but both had their own truck.
Back in those days, it was common to see a driver taking a nap on the steering [...]

Know what state this is?

I’ll try to draw the picture for you, so that you can get a better feel as to whether you might like it as a career. Better to hear all the truth up front, before wasting your time. Right?
I can describe  more than one scenario.
Long haul trucking.
A brief tag name for driving anywhere in the [...]

Yup, that really did happen one night. You see, night drivers, back in the day, were just a little nuts. We drove flat out and in convoys.
I was headed out across Arizona, heading west and just after the POE. I wasn’t alone, there were 2 trucks ahead of me and 1 behind. Well, that is [...]

Or should I say, ‘mis-adventures’. Yup, those were the good old days.
I was working with a friend of mine, who hauled containerized furniture on a step deck. He wanted me to learn the business.
Out of 3 tarps, I don’t think there was a one that weighed less than 300 pounds. So one of the first [...]

If you travel all the way west, you’ve seen this.

This is the first in several articles I’m going to write, especially for the newbie.  Stand by for more.
You ask, “Do you think I’d be any good driving a truck?” and I’ll answer, “Can you take a joke?” If you can take a joke, we’ll go on with this discussion. If not, go home and [...]

Or worse, driving on melting snow. This one is for you newbies, who were never actually introduced to weather driving. I’ll try to fill in the gap.
Take this from an old timer, who learned all these things, the hard way back in the 70’s. Most of what I learned, I got from the old timers [...]