One Safe Mile

Suggested tags: women in trucking, CDL story, trucking origin, one safe mile, why I drive ——— People ask me why I drive truck. I have a short answer I give most of the time. It’s honest as far as it goes. I talk about the independence, the variety, the way

Suggested tags: trucking life, long-haul driving, driver mindset, mental health, road wisdom ——— There’s something that happens to long-haul drivers that doesn’t happen to most people. We spend an extraordinary amount of time alone with our thoughts. Not a quiet morning before the family wakes up. Not a commute.

Suggested tags: trucking life, women in trucking, personal essay, one safe mile ——— I’m going to tell you something I don’t say out loud very often. When I started driving truck, I was not okay. I wasn’t chasing adventure. I wasn’t following a dream. I wasn’t

The night I sat in my truck cab crying, I genuinely believed I had made the worst decision of my life. I want you to hold that image for a second — because what happened after that is exactly why I'm writing this today. When I first started driving,

The Quiet Gets Loud BR The Quiet Gets Loud0:00/191.5783131× There's something nobody really warns you about when you take this job. It gets quiet out here. Really quiet. Just you, the road, the hum of the engine — maybe some music drifting in the background. And

I was 44 years old, sitting in a house full of final notices, and I had run out of options. Not the kind of "out of options" people say when they're frustrated. The real kind. The kind where you've made every call, tried every

There's a mindset that sneaks into trucking that causes more problems than almost anything else on the road — the idea that more miles always means better. Push harder, drive longer, squeeze out one more run. I've seen it burn drivers out and put trucks in ditches.