Your Guide to CSA Points Getting points sounds like a good thing to most, but you don’t want any of these points! Let’s take a look at CSA points and just what they mean when operating a commercial motor vehicle. We will discuss how you might get them, and [...]
Truck Driving Tips For New and Experienced Truckers Being a company truck driver or even an owner operator is not nearly as simple as just driving and watching for changing road conditions in bad weather, although many probably hold that assumption. In addition to needing to know how to [...]
What is Team Truck Driving? If you just got out of truck driving school with your CDL you are probably looking for trucking jobs with great weekly pay. Well, we may have a great option for you. With all the limitations on trucking today it can make it tough [...]
20 Health Tips for Truck Drivers Health for truck drivers is a big deal that too often gets overlooked. With the majority of the options available to CDL drivers being that of fast food and truck stop options, an abundance of calories on a daily basis. Worse than the overload of [...]
Must Know Trucker Slang Okay, admit it, ever since shows Smokey and the Bandit you have wanted to be able to throw around some of that cool trucker lingo like a pro in your trucking company. The trucker slang we are talking about here is commonly used over a [...]
How to Reactivate Your DOT Number Did you recently check the FMCSA (Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration) and see that your trucking authority status switched to inactive? Just having a CDL is not good enough. You can’t stay in the trucking business as a motor carrier without keeping your [...]
What is a Weigh Station? All truck drivers become more familiar with weigh stations than they would probably like, however, weight stations are a vital part of safety enforcement on commercial vehicles on our roadways throughout the country. While regular drivers just have to deal with regulations by the [...]
What is a Driver Qualification File? Within any line of business, employee files are a vital part of record keeping and the trucking industry is no exception to this. In fact, the federal motor carrier safety regulations are quite a bit more strict in this process regarding records for [...]
Types of Cargo Insurance One of the major types of insurance policies that you will have to deal with in the trucking industry is cargo insurance.This is typically a requirement by the shipper before they will assign you the bill of lading. Hopefully you are working with a reputable [...]
Interstate vs. Intrastate: What is the Difference? Are you a new truck driver with your CDL(commercial driver’s license) and ready to hit the road? Well, if you own your trucking company, you will need to make sure you have the right type of authority before you start moving, and [...]