Diesel Truck Driver Training School

Never underestimate the power of a good career services department at a truck driver training school. While the driving instructors can teach you all they know about truck driving, it is the career services personnel who ultimately influence your job application successes. Trucking companies are looking for drivers who are articulate, reliable, and above all [...]

While there is always talk of doom and gloom around the world, the one thing we do know is that no matter what we all need to eat, and we all need to buy the necessities of life. Food and most necessities require transport, whether it’s train, plane, truck or horse drawn carriage and the [...]

It’s easy to talk about career benefits in terms of job enjoyment. When it comes to truck driving, you have the freedom of the road, the fact that you’re in charge once you leave a depot, and the camaraderie that truck drivers have as a group. But what about the basics, the benefits that everyone [...]

In the past, companies that owned trucks that were found to be unsafe were fined quite heavily by the Department of Transport. Since late 2010, this situation was changed along with the way truck owners and truck drivers were assessed for safety. Now, if a DOT inspection finds faults with a truck, those faults are [...]

If you intend working as a truck driver, then there are several endorsements that you can add to your truck driver’s license. One of these is the Hazardous Materials or HazMat endorsement. One question often raised is, Why? Why do you need a special endorsement to carry these materials? Over the years, the reasons behind [...]

One of the benefits of gaining a commercial drivers license is that you can, over time, set yourself up in business as an owner operator. Some operators buy their trucks outright, others lease their vehicles. While I won’t go into the positives and negatives of either, it is becoming a popular option for both drivers, [...]

Driving a truck as a career has a lot of big pluses, however, when it comes to driving big rigs, there are one or two minuses. One of the biggest threats to any truck driver on the road is the normal every day car driver. They are on a mission to get from A to [...]

While a commercial drivers license gives you the authority to drive a truck, there are some vehicles that can only be driven if you have a special endorsement that signifies your training and testing to drive these vehicles. There are also some materials that cannot be transported without a specific endorsement; again, this signifies your [...]

Obtaining a commercial drivers license is really fairly straightforward. There are eight steps that you need to go through, and if you take each step one at a time, you find the process actually gets easier. So what are those eight steps? Learn the road rules – you will need to learn the road rules [...]

Being multi-skilled in today’s workplace can open a lot of doors, and also lead to real job security. If you work in industries such as warehousing, agriculture and heavy equipment operations, then adding a commercial drivers license to your qualifications can make you more employable. If you look at the options from an employer’s point [...]