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What Does Freight On Board Mean?
What Does Freight On Board Mean? FOB, or Freight On Board, is a shipping term that is useful to know when you are learning how to get trucking contracts. It’s used in domestic in the United States as well as international shipping that dictates the terms of sale in...
Winter Truck Maintenance: 8 Tips to Prepare Your Truck for Winter
Winter Truck Maintenance: 8 Tips to Prepare Your Truck for Winter Proper and regular maintenance in trucking is important year-round, however, the winter months can be a monster that requires special winter maintenance attention. The cold weather is always an issue,...
What to Include In Your Semi Truck Emergency Kit
What to Include In Your Semi Truck Emergency Kit Trucking can be rather unpredictable at times. You never know when you may be hit with an unexpected automotive situation in your trip; maybe even a weather-related incident. It is essential for DOT truck drivers to...
The Best Semi Truck Tires
The Best Semi Truck Tires Tires hold pivotal importance on any vehicle such as cars, SUVs, and light trucks, but none as much as long haul semi-truck tires and even trailer tires. Considering the amount of wear and demanding conditions that are placed on the tires of...
Interstate vs. Intrastate: What is the Difference?
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...
Types of Cargo Insurance
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...
What is a Driver Qualification File?
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...
What is a Weigh Station?
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...
How To Reactivate Your DOT Number
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...
Must Know Trucker Slang
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 CB or...
20 Health Tips for Truck Drivers
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...
What is Team Truck Driving?
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 to cover...