Diesel Truck Driver Training School

Part of a truck driver training program is a component related to safety. While safe driving is an important issue for truck drivers, safety goes far beyond a driving skills. Truck drivers need to be aware of safety factors around their trucks as well. One area that a truck driver will be tested on before [...]

What prevents most people from seeking a new career? Often, it’s the perceived costs involved with training. In some cases, that cost can be financially crippling, yet in many other cases, the cost becomes an investment that you can quickly recoup. Truck driver training should be seen as an investment, especially when you consider how [...]

There is often a lot of confusion surrounding what a new arrival to the U.S. can and cannot do. While a Green Card does allow you to live and work legally in the U.S., can you still obtain a commercial drivers license? The answer is a most definite “yes.” Not only that, but in most [...]

When looking through job sites, there is one thing that is really standing out – employers are either looking for truck drivers with heavy equipment operator skills or heavy equipment operators that also have truck driving skills. It does make sense in this modern world – multi-skilled workers are now preferred by employers because of [...]

Most people imagine a truck driver sitting alone in a truck driving for hours on end, often pushing the limits of how long they are allowed behind the wheel. While that is the situation with many drivers, there are trucking companies that employ drivers in teams. This puts one driver behind the wheel while the [...]

Here is a silly question – but one well worth thinking about. If we suddenly had no trucks on our roads, how long would we last? Some estimates suggest our food supplies would last about two weeks. For those that have been unexpectedly cut off, they can tell you that this is often only days [...]

Don’t let anyone tell you that a laboring job is unskilled. Sure, most laborers don’t have formal skills, however, when employers advertise for experienced laborers, they do so for a reason. Those laborers have skills related to laboring. Having said that, there is a trend in job advertisements for truck drivers, crane operators, and heavy [...]

More than 200,000 people leave the military each year and while many have careers that they can either return to, or continue in, many don’t. The fact is that most ex-military personnel return to civilian life with great combat skills, but few skills that make them readily employable. In order to correct this anomaly, federal [...]

One of the areas that concern many people when considering a career as a truck driver is the ever increasing cost of fuel, and the effect this may have in the future. While it’s a valid concern, fuel prices are not limiting truck driving opportunities. If anything, increased fuel prices have increased the need for [...]

I know there are many male drivers who have cursed many female drivers for their poor driving skills. The problem is, when it comes to statistics, males have twice as many accidents as females, and when a woman does have an accident, they are not nearly as deadly. Over 70% of road deaths are directly [...]