Trucking

Does “Duel” Qualify as One of the Best Trucker Movies Ever?

Duel is Steven Spielberg’s first feature-length film and his directorial debut. It earned number six on The Drive’s list of the top ten car movies of all time. Critics agreed that Spielberg made one of the best trucker movies from a simple story. Duel was brilliantly uncomplicated, which allowed the visuals to take center stage. […]

Best Trucker Movies By Genre

By Laura Cunningham

Best Trucker Movies By Genre During the late 70s and through the 80s, Hollywood produced some of its best trucker movies. They romanticized the trucker lifestyle and their larger-than-life personalities. Life on the road is entertaining, whether your hero is battling 18-wheeler sentient cyborgs or hauling a load of illegal beer from Texas to Georgia. […]

Good Lights on Your Pickup Truck Can Be Key for Safety

By Pickup Trucker

Adding the right aftermarket lights to your pickup truck or SUV brings big safety benefits. Winter has finally set its grip firmly around us, marked by shorter days, longer nights, and just plain nasty driving conditions. Good lights on my vehicles play a critical role in how safe I feel while driving after dark. You […]

How to Choose the Right Aftermarket Lights for Your Vehicle

By Mike Davidson

Choosing which auxiliary lights to install on your truck or any kind of vehicle entails a few more considerations than which box of lights on display at the local Wal-Mart or Auto Zone is the cheapest. Buying auxiliary lights isn’t like buying gas where it’s virtually all the same to your vehicle’s engine. You should first […]

How to Fix Your Pickup or SUV’s Rear End Sagging Under a Heavy Load

By Bill Gregstone

Firestone Ride Rite Air Helper Springs Great Boost For Sagging Rear Ends Is your pickup or SUV’s rear end sagging bit under a big load? An easy cure is installing a set of Firestone Ride-Rite air bag helper springs. These little beauties, which come in a kit for less than $300 through a number of […]

Getting a CDL Truck Driving License and the Importance of the Pre-trip Inspection

By Rebecca Bankston

Doing a pre-trip inspection is one of the biggest parts of learning about how to become a trucker and studying to get a CDL drivers license. A significant amount of your time at a truck driving school will be spent time learning this procedure. You will have to learn to identify all of the mechanical parts of […]

Considering Becoming a Truck Driver? Learn How to Pick the Right Truck Driving School

By Mike Davidson

Do you think you should sign up for one of the many company paid truck driving schools? Have you decided to get your CDL license and go to a truck driving school that is offering you paid CDL training? All you need to do now is sign an agreement and go to one of these trucking driving schools and everything is going […]

Freudian Thinking, Personality Types and Vehicle Maintenance

By Mike Davidson

It’s human nature these days to lump individuals into one of two personality traits—Type A or Type B. Believe it or not, pickups and SUVs have the same “personality” classifications in the automotive world. The maintenance section in a vehicle owner’s manual list two vehicle “personalities” and their respective maintenance schedules: A and B. Like […]

The Top 10 Best Truck Driving and Trucking Movies

By Pickup Trucker

Love truck-driving films? We do too! That’s why we compiled a list of the best trucker movies of all time. It’s not easy to choose your favorite movies, much less so when movies are about topics you’re passionate about, such as trucking. Nowadays, we have some popular TV shows about trucking like “Truck My Truck […]

Portions of Interstate 10 bridge gone

By Pickup Trucker

NEW ORLEANS — Officials reported that portions of the bridge on Interstate 10 west of here have completely washed away in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Truckers moving goods along the Interstate 10 corridor will have to make other travel plans, they said. Obviously, officials have no idea about plans to rebuild the bridge.

Truckers, traders adopt wait-see attitude on diesel prices

By Pickup Trucker

WASHINGTON — At-the-pump diesel prices nudged only slightly higher during the seven-day period ending Aug. 29, as truckers and oil traders alike waited for full-impact assessments of damage done by Hurricane Katrina to refineries in the Gulf of Mexico. The Energy Information Administration (EIA) in Washington reported a nationwide average increase of only two-tenths of a cent […]