If you’re a truck driver trying to make it through this freight market, you already know how rough it’s been. Freight rates, fuel prices, fuel surcharge, and DOT regulations keep changing, and a lot of drivers are wondering how to stay profitable in trucking right now.

In this video we talk real trucking advice from the road. Owner-operator trucking, specialized trucking, heavy haul trucking, and wind blade hauling. We get into why specialized freight and oversize loads can keep you moving when flatbed trucking, dry van trucking, and reefer freight slow down.

We cover how owner-operators can survive low spot market rates, why fuel mileage matters more than speed, how fuel surcharge helps when rates are down, and why learning your lanes, regions, and freight corridors is key to staying busy as a truck driver.

There’s also a lot of talk about what drivers are dealing with today. DOT inspections, portable scales, weigh stations, permit changes, oversize permits, AI inspection scales, ELDs, logbooks, and constant regulatory changes. We also talk about the future of trucking, including autonomous trucks, self-driving trucks, and where heavy haul, oil field trucking, wind energy trucking, and tanker trucking might be headed.

If you’re new to trucking or thinking about getting your CDL, this is real advice: keep your driving record clean, avoid tickets, DWIs, and reckless driving, because that stuff follows you forever in trucking. It affects insurance, background checks, cross-border trucking to Canada, military base access, and higher-paying trucking jobs.

This isn’t a highlight reel, it’s a truck driver conversation about making trucking a long-term career, staying profitable as an owner-operator, and surviving the ups and downs of the trucking industry.

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We sat down with ATS flatbed driver Omar to talk about:
• Winter trucking tips every driver should know
• How to stay calm when stress, traffic, or weather hit hard
• Real road stories and close calls
• Why understanding truck behavior keeps 4-wheelers safer
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• Advice for new drivers entering the industry
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In this episode of Beyond the Road, two real ATS drivers share what life on the road is really like — and why they’re more than just truckers. From gaming in the cab and volunteering as firefighters to balancing family life and running flatbed or van freight, this is an unfiltered look into what modern trucking really means.
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