Diesel Truck Driver Training School

One of the more tedious, and often difficult, areas of truck driving is that which relates to trucking laws. As a truck driver, you cannot use lack of knowledge as a defense – lawyers often take pleasure in the quote “ignorance can never be used a defense.” Truck drivers then need to keep themselves updated [...]

A big mistake that many people make is to think of truck driving as a skill that involves driving only. Whilst driving skills are very important, they are not the only skills required. Often, it’s what you do before you get into the cab that determines how successful your trip is going to be. A [...]

We may be recovering from an economic crisis, however, people are still spending money and buying goods, even if it’s only the essentials. Those goods don’t magically appear on supermarket shelves; they make their way there courtesy of the transport industry and the tens of thousands of truck drivers that travel the highways. We live [...]

Truck driver training to obtain a commercial drivers license (CDL) is generally the start of a lifetime of learning. It’s easy to look at a career like that of a truck driver and assume that nothing ever changes, and that CDL is all you need to succeed. It can be, if you’re happy to stick [...]

New technology is appearing in trucks all the time. GPS, weather forecasting, and even small computers that connect a truck to the company’s dispatch center. One piece of new technology (really a new use for an old technology) is the use of digital cameras in trucks. These cameras are located in the cab, and they [...]

Adults often find it difficult to undertake training for a new career. Perhaps it’s the independence they have developed, or it could be the ‘school’ feel of classroom-based lessons, adults often struggle to handle the concept of training. Here are a few tips that may help you get the most out of your truck driver [...]

There’s nothing like the freedom of the open highway and there’s no better way to experience it than behind the wheel of tractor trailer truck. Tractor trailers come in a wide range of configurations – you could be driving a tractor trailer dump truck. Tractor trailers are generally a tractor with a single trailer carrying [...]

Truck driving can be a very lucrative career, however, it is a career that comes with a lot of responsibility. We have all seen the large freight haulers that ply our highways everyday. If a fully laden freight truck loses control, the results could be catastrophic – there’s a lot of weight being pushed at [...]

One of the trends in recent years is for truck driving to be a family career rather than just for individuals. What do I mean by “family career”? There are two approaches that couples in particular are taking. The first is for the husband and wife to both have a commercial drivers license, and to [...]

Watch children at play in their yards or in sand pits and dump trucks are one of their favorites. You rarely see a child pretending to drive a long distance freight truck, or even a tractor-trailer with heavy equipment as a load. In fact, when it comes to child’s play, heavy equipment has this magical [...]