Truck Driver Tales

You know that feeling you get that people drive more safely in some areas than in others? That's not just a feeling. The average motorist has...

When fellow truck driver Kelly Houle isn’t rolling down the interstate, he’s making hand-stamped jewelry and garden art for his shop, Whispering Metalworks.

We've noticed that people who are not in the trucking industry have absolutely no clue what it's really like! We're here to help everyone get their facts straight by debunking the top 5 myths about truck drivers!

Watch as truck drivers make the most of their time after being stranded for over 12 hours during winter storms last week in Kentucky. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFdsxybozK8 Source: Gio...

You may think a super trucker is usually a young male driver who is turned loose from his company trainer, and is now barreling down the highway, and being foolish and reckless. While his mind he is daydreaming how his life somehow just hit the lottery, and his attention is not on that vehicle currently in his blind spot to his right, where he should have remained doing the speed limit. Often times it is these young and inexperienced drivers, who can cause the most grief and mayhem on the highway.

We, as truckers, have to stop at travel centers and some of us have to depend on the services offered in these places. These services can range from laundry to hair cutting, and convenience store services, but would you like to see more?I know some truck stops do offer such things as tattoo parlors, dental centers, or massages. Are these enough?

Sometimes you've just got to take a break and enjoy the world around you!

By A. H. Bosley Today we have cell phones, iPads, laptop computers, the truckers GPS, satellite radios, Google Maps, video games, Facebook and satellite TV....

Most people only see the fact that we travel together or that we just get to be with our spouses all the time. Have YOU ever been in a CONFINED space with your significant other for an extended period of time? It is definitely NOT all roses and sparkling rainbows.

This story is about my reflection as a child on the joy and happiness that came from getting a truckers attention for them to BLOW THAT AIR HORN.

DRIVING A TRUCK: Des Plaines, May 18 – In reply to the writer who compared a truck driver’s wages with those of white collar workers, factory has, plumbers, and carpenters, let us put a few things in perspective.

There have been a lot of issues recently involving the parking at Walmart’s or I should say, the lack of parking at Walmart. This always brings people, especially drivers of semi’s, to say, “I won’t shop at Walmart anymore because they don’t want me to park there.” Let me tell you a little about WHY.