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When choosing the best truck driving school for veterans, choose the school that can best honor, value, and support veteran needs. Whether you were active duty or reserve service member, your time in the military prepared you with the physical and mental skills that are necessary for a great commercial truck driving career. At Truck […]

The results are in: pets positively affect your mental health. This may seem obvious to any pet enthusiast, but some may be concerned about finding employment that will allow you to bring pets along. Fortunately, many trucking companies have pet policies that allow their drivers to include their companions on drives.  Driving with your pet […]

Finding a job while on active duty can be hard. Luckily, Truck Driver Institute is here to help. We are proud of our veterans and active service members, and supply aid to those who have served or are serving in the US military. Truck Driver Institute has an over 80% placement rating for its students […]

Have you ever wondered how to become an owner-operator truck driver, or what that even entails? When most people think about truck drivers, they think about someone that transports, loads, and unloads goods. Owner operator truck drivers go through the same tasks, but instead of working under the boss of a company, they operate as […]

If you’re a truck driver or looking to become one and have a family, we understand that family comes first. No career should ever come between you and your loved ones, and working with these family friendly trucking companies will prevent that from happening. It’s important to do your research before joining the trucking industry, […]

With advances in technology occurring every day, the trucking industry may see many types of new technology coming in the future. Trucking automation is a very real possibility for the future of trucking. While there are many benefits to having automated trucks, it can pose many threats to the trucking industry as we know it. […]