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What Should I Expect from Truck Driving School?
What Should I Expect from Truck Driving School?

It鈥檚 always a little nerve-wracking to get started down a new career path. In truck driving, it鈥檚 particularly difficult, since most of us have little in the way of actual experience with the trucking industry. There are also several different types of trucking schools, and while each may take a different approach to instructing you on how to learn to handle and drive a big rig, you should still have two things you are largely expecting regarding your trucking school experience. The first is lots of time in the truck. This counts for both sitting and driving time. After all,…

Pre-Employment Screening Program: The Trucking Student鈥檚 FAQ
Pre-Employment Screening Program: The Trucking Student鈥檚 FAQ

You鈥檝e probably already heard of the PSP, and how your score can affect your employability within the trucking industry. But just what is the pre-employment screening and how does it affect you? Does that fender-bender you had on that rain-slicked road when you were 17 mean that you can鈥檛 get a CDL? Does that speeding ticket, then the ticket for making an accidental illegal right turn on red at an intersection between 1 pm and 6 pm mean that trucking companies won鈥檛 touch you with a 10-foot pole? If you are really hoping to land some of those truck driving…

Combat Truck Driving Back Pain in a Few Minutes per Day
Combat Truck Driving Back Pain in a Few Minutes per Day

When you drive a truck professionally, you do a lot of sitting. To the uninitiated, a sitting-related health warning may seem a step removed from 鈥渋t鈥檚 not healthy for you to nap too much,鈥� but there are real health issues that can arise from sitting in a big rig, burning down the highways day after day. Sitting upright puts a lot of pressure on your back. Sitting upright in an enormous vibrating, bouncing vehicle for hours at a time can be downright destructive. And once you begin developing back pain, every day you only make it worse if you don鈥檛…

It's National Truck Driver Appreciation Week!
It's National Truck Driver Appreciation Week!

National Truck Driver Appreciation Week, September 13-19, 2015, is when America takes the time to honor all professional truck drivers for their hard work and commitment in tackling one of our economy鈥檚 most demanding and important jobs. These 3.4 million professional men and women not only deliver our goods safely, securely and on time, they also keep our highways safe. These professional men and women log close to 421 billion miles each year. In 2013, trucking professionals delivered 69.1 percent of the U.S. freight tonnage, equivalent to 9.7 billion tons of freight. 80 percent of聽U.S. communities depend solely on the…

Staying Health on the Road
Staying Health on the Road

For a lot of young truck drivers, there are a lot of things on their mind. Remembering their CDL training, driving safely, and meeting deadlines. You notice 鈥渟taying healthy鈥� wasn鈥檛 on that list. Indeed your health is often the unheralded key to staying a good truck driver, particularly over time. When a large part of your job involves sitting in a truck for hours at a time, it鈥檚 difficult to find the time to work in a little exercise. David Boyer is a veteran trucker who saw his weight balloon to more than 370 lbs. 鈥淢y doctor told me to…