As a commercial truck driver, effectively using your downtime is crucial for both managing your workload and maximizing your readiness for when the next load is offered. Whether you're waiting to be dispatched, on a mandatory break, or experiencing delays, making the most of these moments can significantly impact your efficiency and overall success. Prioritizing rest, maintaining your truck, planning routes, and staying organized with paperwork ensures that you’re always pr...

What is an OTR truck driver? Someone that travels from place to place, sometimes for days, weeks or months at a time picking up and delivering freight along their trip and oftentimes living mostly in their trucks until returning home. What is an RV’er? Someone that travels from place to place, sometimes for days, weeks or months at a time, stopping here and there along the way, usually living in their RV until returning home....

As mentioned in a previous blog, The Hole Project was a success. Cutting a hole in the roof of my new truck and installing a rooftop heat pump went as planned. What was not planned well was the unit I installed on the roof of my mid roof sleeper....

We humbly celebrate Women's History Month; and today we celebrate International Women’s Day....

Tax Time! Business taxes will be due in the next few days. Are you prepared? I have to admit that even after many years of having to prepare business taxes March 15th always catches me by surprise. I think the main reason for this is due to the fact that we want to stay out on the road working once the new year begins. Also, we have to wait for all the documents to arrive that need to be included with the tax return. Do you know what you need to either pass along to an accoun...

Cleaning House Spring is right around the corner and along with the season brings feelings of new beginnings. Spring is also a time when people might do deep cleaning both at home and in the truck. Finally, Spring cleaning might also include looking within to get out of the Winter doldrums and find new life inside ourselves. How many of you find Spring to be a happy time, a time with more energy and a time to improve yourself and your surroundings? I know I find that I have m...

Year-in and year-out, I try to set goals (not resolutions) as I shift into each and every new phase of life. And as we’re already closing the book on the first two months of 2025, it seems a good time to assess just where we each reside in terms of our own personal goals and the sights we might set on our future. We all have responsibilities. We all have hopes and dreams of our own. But sometimes, the outside world can beat us down and, unfortunately, it often seems like th...

We would like to put this blog back up again this year.  We all just got done running in a very cold, snowy, icy, etc. winter.  With that we all know a lot of salt was put down and we picked it up on our trucks (locks). Something you probably do not think about is lock maintenance on your truck.  Well years ago, Stephen did not think about it and ran into a problem at a shipper.  He was running our previous truck as a solo and the lock on one of the barn doors rusted.  I...

This years Mid America Trucking Show (MATS) at the Kentucky Expo Center on March 27-29, 2025.  This show says they are the largest in the United States.  We could say it is.  We have been attending it since 2013 and it is our go to show for doing our research (hands on) on new products, technology, and other things.  It is a grueling three days of running and talking so bring some great and comfortable pair of shoes. Also, this year is a huge change.  The show will only ...

Every day truck drivers everywhere have to deal with any number of issues on the road. Everything from tailgaters to brake checkers. Merging traffic without regard for those already on the road to that one guy who just will not make the pass and just rides beside you for miles....