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What facts do you know about heavy trucks? How many types of them are there? Let’s look at these two questions in details.

Nowadays you can see trucks of all kinds from small semi-trucks speeding on highways and transporting someone’s property to huge freighters carrying the tons of goods to their destination point. You can also see modern and luxurious trailers with touch screen GPS, satellite TV and radio, DVD-players, comfortable beds with plasma TVs on the walls and other super modern and high-tech devices. People use not only the word “truck” to refer it to a vehicle that transports cargo, you can also hear such words as – lorry, freighter, rig, wagon, van and some others. 

Top stops for truck drivers

After a long day of running down the road you start looking for a place to park your truck for the night. Today we’ve decided to tell you about the best places for drivers to have rest. 

In recent decades, one can clearly trace the trend of rapid development in all spheres of human activity. There is no exception for freight transport as well. If today's trucks moving on the world highways are significantly different from those trucks that people used even ten years ago, what will happen to trucks in the future? Some of the manufacturers are ready to give us their vision of the future of the trucks.

The truck of the future from Volvo – safer than ever.

American Trucking Association has recently reported about an acute lack of truck drivers in the USA. Nowadays there is a big demand in the profession of a truck driver and there are the companies that are willing to pay for the training from their own pocket. The usual course to obtain a Commercial driver’s license takes about four weeks. Afterwards, they offer a pretty good salary for novices - $35,000 - $50,000 a year.

Have you ever heard the deafening noise of a moving truck with a cargo? Soon it will be remembered as an artifact of the ancient era when dirty and noisy tractor trucks frightened everyone with their roar of engines and sucked hundreds of liters of crazy-expensive fuel.

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