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You may consider yourself a very safe driver, and you may well take that safety-conscious approach to a trucking career, however, that doesn’t mean you’ll avoid accidents. Unfortunately, you will have to share the road with other drivers, and they may not be a safe or as smart as you. If you take a truck [...]
Truck drivers put up with a lot of nonsense as they ply their trade. Cars pay them little respect, either that or they are overly cautious, which in itself can cause problems. Highway patrols are not always welcome, and events such as traffic accidents and weather can also create problems. All that aside, concentration is [...]
Do good truck drivers have accidents? It’s not unusual to hear a truck driver brag that they have never been in an accident. Of course, you could question their definition of an accident. Does the fact they have never had an accident make them a good truck driver, or just a lucky one? The reality [...]
There’s more to driving a truck than just knowing the road rules, steering, changing gears, accelerating and braking – the basic skills that all car drivers must learn and prove themselves to be proficient at. Commercial truck drivers obviously need those skills as well, however, there are many more skills that would-be truck drivers need [...]
Everyone wants to live and work in a safe environment, and despite what many say, truck drivers are no different. Sure, they push the boundaries, however, that push is generally created by truck drivers themselves being pushed. People want their goods delivered as quickly as possible. Businesses want their raw materials delivered as quickly as [...]
There’s nothing like a sudden freezing winter snap to test the skills of a truck driver. For truck drivers, winter brings many challenges with the greatest coming from hidden black ice. This is ice on the road that is difficult to see until you hit it, and your wheels and brakes suddenly start to lose [...]
They say we live in a free country, yet we need to have licenses for many of the things we do. We need a license to drive a car and there are even more stringent tests to gain a commercial drivers license. So why do we need licenses? I know some people would cynically argue [...]
Computer games are often frowned on, especially by parents and educators. Yet computer games could be helping to develop a special type of person – people who can anticipate what’s about to happen and who have quick reflexes to deal with that event. They are skills that are important to several careers, including the military, [...]
Truck drivers ply their trade across a huge range of vehicles. Some drive dump trucks, busily zipping around carting loads of materials that are dumped, then returning to be filled again. Local truck drivers deliver goods to our shops, supermarkets and construction sites. Long distance truck drivers deliver goods across the nation, sometimes even across [...]
There are times where, in life, you can just be plain lucky. For one recent Russian truck driver, luck played a huge role in an accident that he could just walk away from – in fact, if you check out this video, you’ll see he had no option but to walk away. When it comes [...]
