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Home > Blog > Five Tips for Truck Drivers
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

Five Tips for Truck Drivers

1. Always have a plan. This includes the obvious route and time plan to pick up and deliver loads. You also need to include plans for maintaining your equipment, plans for staying healthy on the road, and plans to get the right amount of home time. And most of all, a plan on how to reach your goals, both personal and business.

2. Know what it costs you to operate each piece of your equipment on a daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly basis. You can’t control what you don’t know. Reducing unnecessary expenses is necessary for any trucking operation.

3. Develop a program where you pay yourself first. This means including a salary as one of your fixed expenses, which helps you create a visual goal which you can achieve. If you wait for the leftovers on the financial side of your operation, what you’ll end up with is the crumbs. You need to help your lease operators do the same. Even your company drivers need to set daily and weekly income goals, because company drivers are usually paid by the mile.

4. Schedule Preventive Maintenance. Remember a truck or trailer whose maintenance needs are ignored will stop your forward progress at the most inopportune time. Making sure your equipment is in top-notch condition at all times means you can achieve your other goals. Ignore its maintenance and the truck will make sure you’re driven to financial failure.

5. Stay with it. In the current economic conditions, freight availability is going to be like riding a roller coaster. There will be times when you have plenty of freight for your trucks; there will be other times where you can’t seem to beg a load. The object is to minimize your no-load times. This is accomplished by developing specific freight lanes for each piece of equipment and planning as far into the future as possible. And always book your loads in the round; for every outbound, have a returning inbound load.

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Jacie Thompson said...
My friends dad is a truck driver, and he has told me how difficult it can be at times. Traveling is hard on your body and you have to plan out how to take care of your body, just like you mentioned. Its also stressful to drive a truck of such a large size. Im grateful for truck drivers because I know that I wouldnt be able to do it! http://www.treelineventures.ca/services.html
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Taylor Bishop said...
Thanks for giving some advice for truck drivers. I like that you said you need to have preventative maintenance done regularly. This seems important to make the truck last for as long as possible. https://www.aglcranes.com.au/truck-crane-transportation
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