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Ah, the custom rig. In some ways, it can be akin to the 1950’s pinup attached to the teenage boy’s wall: an ideal, a dream, something to aspire to. Custom rigs, no matter the customizations, are a reflection of what you want in a truck: they come with everything you want, how you want it. They’re essentially the perfect truck for you. Of course, they also come with something else: a not-quite-as-beautiful price tag.

How do you read a tire sidewall and what does it mean? Of course all manufacturers are going to put their name on it, and they will also put the model, be it numbers or letters.

There has been a seemingly endless stream of advances in trucking over the last couple decades, across just about every aspect of the industry. Whether the advance has to do with the quality of trailer you’re pulling, the computers in the truck itself, the communications technology that’s now available, or the way you log your loads, to name a few, you’re working more efficiently now than ever. Multiplexing presents a potential solution that combines all these elements into packages, which is intended to make you more efficient than you might have imagined possible.

When looking at wiring harnesses there are nine common causes of failure, according to Grote, a leading manufacturer of lighting products. We will discuss each one’s cause and repair.

As we've established, there are some pretty big changes on their way in June of this year. We've looked at changes specific to drivers, changes specific to carriers, and looked at a general overview of CSA 2010. What we haven't looked at as yet is what's most important: your reactions to the matter. There are a couple threads at the ExpeditersOnline.com forums that I've pulled these quotes from, and following those, I'll list some good resources to learn more about CSA 2010 and thoughts about the changes.