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4 Hard-to-Believe Motorist Laws
Phoenix, Arizona, only gets rainfall during the few weeks of summer monsoons and sporadically in the winter months. That means native Arizonans aren’t used to driving in inclement weather conditions....
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To CB or not to CB: Why Some Truckers Don’t Use Their CB Much
Breaker one-nine. Remember when every trucker had a CB and used it? Not so, any more. Gone, are the days when every trucker had his “ears” on. These days, there’s about a 50-50 chance they do. Why is...
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Chicken-Hauler School: How to be a Real Chicken-Hauler
There must be a secret school somewhere, that teaches the fine art of chicken hauling. I say that, because of the recent influx of chicken haulers on the road today. I suspect many of them came from...
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What is Common Sense?
Ah, common sense. Something everyone thinks he alone has, but not many others do. Why is it that some people have common sense and others don’t? It sounds common, as though everybody is supposed to...
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The Life Span Analogy or Why Cars Don’t Understand Trucks
Ever since I was a kid, I always loved to daydream. Even in school, my teachers would talk and I would look out the window and drift off to some fantastic (or sometimes incredibly simple) place in my...
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Lumpers: Service or Scam?
How many times has this happened to you? You show up at a warehouse to make a delivery. You walk in smiling. You pleasantly hand your papers to the receive and say, “Hi, I have a delivery for you.” The...
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Monkeys can Drive?
I once worked for a guy who said that he could teach a monkey how to drive a truck. Of course that was before his accident. He ran a bottling plant for a major soft-drink company. He was always hiring...
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Truck Drivers are Pretty Smart and Come From all Walks of Life
Truck drivers have to put up with a lot of stupid people: Dispatchers who don’t write things down and then later deny the knowledge of something they should have known, shippers who make you stand...
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Those Darn Women Drivers: Women in Trucking 2015
One day I was driving along, minding my own business and I happened to glance into the car next to me. There was a woman putting on make-up while she was driving! She had the sun visor pulled down,...
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Top Road Rage Excuses – Documented Evidence
I thought I saw (or heard) it all, until I found this study on road rage excuses. Yes, I’m guilty of coming up with an excuse or two over the years myself, but this is ridiculous. And the sad part is-...
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