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Common Mistakes Rookie Truck Drivers Make & How to Avoid Them

Truck drivers have been on the front lines during the COVID-19 pandemic, delivering vital medical supplies to hospitals and essential goods to retail stores. There are more new truckers on the road now than ever before helping transport freight across America. If you’re a rookie truck driver, that doesn’t mean you have to make mistakes like one. In this article, we’ll discuss what pitfalls you can avoid as a newbie trucker and how you can get your trucking career off to a great start.

With changing legislation, guidelines galore, and extensive checks and double-checks it seems impossible for a trucker to let their guard down. Really though, truckers are in the ideal position for experience to obscure the obvious.

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