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The team at Smart Trucking recently shared a new video outlining the basics of passing and merging when you're driving a big rig.

The hiring process for truckers can be lengthy and difficult. Recruiters want to know everything they can about you. But they can't ask these specific questions.

An Alabama community college is offering ground breaking women-only CDL training course.

CDLLife has spoken with safety and recruiting directors to find out some of the reasons they’ll reject a driver, even if that driver meets their minimum hiring criteria, and their answers were surprising. 

Whether you're a veteran driver or a rookie, it can be hard to break through a driver recruiter's song and dance to get the information that you need about a job you're considering taking. That's why CDLLife put together a list of over 100 essential questions that you need to get answered before you take a new job.

Here's a list of sites that offer free, online practice CDL tests.

So you're always hearing about the 'truck driver shortage' and reading articles about how hard it is for companies to hire and keep qualified...

Watch as a trucking instructor uses drone technology to film a backing lesson with one of his students.

Introduction - first steps to a new career in truck driving. Ever since CDLLIFE was founded, we have focused a building a community of professional...

  This article is step 2 in our multi-step Beginner's Guide to Becoming a CDL Driver. To read the entire guide follow the link above...

How much do truck drivers make and what can truck drivers expect to make in their first year? This article is step 3 in our multi-step Beginner’s...

This week, we asked drivers to list three things they like/love about their jobs. This is what they said.