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85Product Review: Slick 50 Engine Additive And Transmission Additive
Back in the day, circa 1967, Slick 50 had yet to hit the market in the field of engine oil and automatic transmission fluid additives. The only thing around and well enough known to be much discussed was STP, and STP has a lot of enemies. Stir a...
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86After Trucking School: Truck Tire Blowouts
While none of us experienced a truck tire blowout in trucking school, every one of us who drove big rigs commercially after graduation got to find out what it was like. You've noticed that trucks seem to have quite a few blowouts? It's true. There...
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80The Fatal Car Accident
The first car accident I witnessed did not produce a fatality, but it should have. I was six years old. Our ranching family had taken most of the day to go picking huckleberries up Rattlesnake Gulch, but we were back home and chores were being...
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84After Truck Driving School: Smoking The Brakes
Several months after graduating from truck driving school, I had yet to smoke the brakes on my assigned truck. For all but four or five days per month, the big red Volvo tractor was my home in motion or at rest, towing a 53-foot dry van here and...
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83After Truck Driving School: Driving Tired
No matter what they tell you in truck driving school, you will be "driving tired" if you're out there making a living as an OTR (over the road) truck driver. Every driving school instructor in the business knows this because he or she has been...
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78Car Accident Close Calls
For every car accident, there are countless close calls. At least that's been my experience. In truth, this Hub is not that easy to write. Why? Because it's embarrassing. Why? Because nearly every car accident close call I've had in fifty years of...
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80How To Change A Big Rig Tire Without Power Equipment
Most truckers get their tires changed by the use of air wrenches and other power equipment these days, but it never hurts to know the low tech procedure for getting something done. A lot of big rig jockeys,...
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85Truck Driving School
Whether you need to find a truck driving school or have already selected one and are headed off to truck driving school in the morning, take a few minutes to scan this page. It will be well worth your time. ...
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79After Truck Driving School: Legal Problems
They won't tell you this in truck driving school, but most legal problems you encounter during your career as an OTR truck driver are purely your own to handle. The company will hang you out to dry if it means...
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70After Truck Driving School: Scraping The Truck
Just a few weeks after graduating from truck driving school, I was hanging out one evening in the truckers' lounge at our terminal in Santa Fe Springs, California. Actually, the truckers' lounge was located not at the terminal but in the same...
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