News and information from inside the trucking industry.
High Hooking A Trailer Is A Simple Mistake. To be honest, high hooking a trailer is not easy to do. You really have to be distracted or the set up of the trailer has to be really off. High hooking happens when the kingpin on the trailer is higher than the fifth wheel. Since the … Read more
Trip planning is the best way to become a good driver. A truck driver will take many trips in his driving career. Trip planning is one of the ways that you, the driver can help your company be profitable. Out-of-route miles are a costly way to loose money. At the beginning of your driving career, you … Read more
Driving a big truck safely must be a priority. I spent the first two weeks in an 18 wheeler with a trainer. We left Elizabethtown KY one Monday morning on my first trip out to Wichita Falls TX. We spent the day driving out through Memphis TN, across Arkansas, finally arriving at a truck stop … Read more
I went to truck driving school in Indianapolis in the Fall of 1994. I had recently gotten our of the U.S. Army and was looking for something better to do than to work in a factory. Nothing wrong with a factory, but after being a twenty-one year old Sergeant in the Army, I was looking … Read more
