For the Driver

For the Driver from American Trucker serves independent owner-operators and growing trucking fleets operating fewer than five power units.

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Refrigerated Vehicles & Equipment

Miles ahead: Wylie Wilson reflects on a decade with air disc brakes

Dec. 13, 2024

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Equipment

To prebuy or not to prebuy. That is the big trucking question.

Jim Park

Dec. 13, 2024

News

For the Driver

How to Christmas shop at a truck stop

Jenna Hume

Dec. 13, 2024

Since its inception in 2012, ATG’s Haulin’ 4 Hunger program has provided over 80,000 meals and counting to help those in need.

Five Good Things

Five Good Things: Donating time, money, and food

Jenna Hume

Dec. 13, 2024

News

DOT to remove oral drug testing requirement as 'factual impossibility'

Jeremy Wolfe

Dec. 13, 2024

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For the Driver

TCA, trucking industry highlight military

Jenna Hume

May 31, 2024

Trucking fleets across the U.S. display military appreciation and support on their tractors and trailers. Here is a photo gallery of truckload carriers' patriotic rigs.

2025 Shell Rotella SuperRigs calendar now available: Celebrating trucking excellence

For the Driver

2025 Shell Rotella SuperRigs calendar available for purchase

Jenna Hume

Dec. 13, 2024

Photos of 12 semi-trucks and their drivers are featured in this calendar, which were taken earlier this year at the 42nd annual Shell Rotella SuperRigs event in Fort Worth, Texas...

CDOT breaks ground on truck parking improvements

For the Driver

Expanded truck parking incoming for Connecticut

Jenna Hume

Dec. 11, 2024

By the end of the decade, CTDOT plans to add more than 180 new truck parking spaces in Middletown, Madison, Southington, Southbury, and Vernon.

Operations

Why independent contractor rules matter for trucking

Jeremy Wolfe

Dec. 9, 2024

The DOL's independent contractor rule affects a key demographic of truckers and has impacts far beyond FLSA. Here's how it is impacting trucking.

Fleets Explained

Fleets Explained: What’s the deal with truck parking?

Jenna Hume

Dec. 6, 2024

This Fleets Explained article lays out why truck drivers need parking, the current state of U.S. truck parking, regulations, types of truck parking, truck parking tools, and amenities...