Many people come out of CDL-A school with the desire to land a local truck driving job. The reality is most companies will not take you as an inexperienced driver to work local. What this means is you will have to go over the road and gain some valuable experience before landing that dream driving…
Last year I took on a new over the road position that had me run lanes all the way out west to California. My pickups were usually in Ohio or Indiana and the surrounding area. My deliveries were in the San Francisco or Los Angeles regions. I got to run all of the major interstates…
If you are wondering what it is like to be a Southeast regional truck driver you are in luck. I drove in all of the south-eastern lanes for over 2 years as a professional truck driver. I am going to go over the pros and cons of what a SE regional driver is likely to…
One of the most often overlooked items for creature comfort in your truck is your bunk. As a trucker you will be spending a lot of time in your bunk. Just as much or even more than you do in your bed at home. Why is that? It is simple. Truckers have to take a…
One of the hardest challenges I had while trucking aside from the actual job was being able to eat the foods that I wanted to. At home I regularly cooked my meals and had easy access to fresh groceries but once you are over the road and living in a truck it changes everything. Truck…
Trucking requires many skills but one of the more important ones is being a good navigator. As a truck driver you are going to be required to go from point A to point B and most of the time the route is going to be left up to you. You cannot just fire up Google…
Driving a semi-truck over a hundred thousand miles a year on the nation’s highways will naturally lead to close calls with your truck due to unexpected circumstances. What do I mean? Stuff happens out there on the road and some of it is next to impossible to plan for. It will just happen. In my…
The Benefits of Being an Amazon Truck driver If you are curious of what it is like to be a CDL-A driver running Amazon freight you are going to love this article. I hauled freight for Amazon for over 2 years and drove over 200,000 miles for them. By the time I finished there I…
If you are curious what the pay is like in trucking, you have come to the right place. I have driven over the road, regional and local trucking jobs hauling several types of freight. I will go over the details of each driving job and the approximate figures I brought in personally. Truckers Like to…
One of the biggest downsides to being an over the road trucker is that you will rarely be home. Most companies will expect you to be gone anywhere from 2-4 weeks and when you are home you will be given no longer than 3-5 days of home time. Home time is the term used in…