Trucking Tips

A 10-truck fleet that buys straps one at a time is wasting $8,000 a year. Here’s how bulk pricing and smart inventory change the math.

Below freezing, your straps stiffen, your ratchets jam, and your chains hold ice. Here’s how the pros adapt.

Heavy equipment has its own DOT rulebook. Get it wrong and you're looking at a $1,000+ fine — plus the chance of a $50,000 piece of equipment hitting the ditch.

A stack of steel pipe shifts during a hard brake and rolls forward. Without anything to stop it, 8,000 lbs of pipe is heading for the cab — and the driver. This isn't a theor...

A rookie ties down a steel coil with 4-inch ratchet straps. The load looks tight leaving the yard. First significant bump on the highway and the coil's sharp outer edge, unde...

A new flatbed driver walks into a truck stop and sees $3,000 of gear staring back at him. Straps in every size, chains in every grade, binders, bars, tarps, corner boards, sp...