All About Trucking, Becoming a Driver Trainer

This book explains what long haul trucking consists of and also how to become a truck driver trainer.

This book contains knowledge gained from interviews with a life-long trucker who spent over forty years in the transportation industry and has been involved in many different types of trucking. He was born into trucking since his father bought a small delivery company in the year of his birth. This was back in the early forties when the Teamsters Union dominated and controlled most drivers with a national master freight agreement.

The author operated and was involved with city delivery vans, dry freight vans, flatbed trailers, and refrigerated equipment of all sizes. He transported general commodities, foodstuffs, perishables, steel and hazardous material of various types. His first twenty years were spent doing city delivery, local and short haul, warehousing and distribution, and dealing with the Teamsters Union. After that, he spent the next twenty some years involved in long haul over the road trucking as an employee of several different companies pulling dry vans and temperature controlled equipment. During that time, he saw and experienced this type of trucking progress into what it is today, following deregulation in the early eighties. The changes have been dramatic.